The real magic of cinema? Two hours of escape - guaranteed - from work emails | Joel Snape

The auditoriums can be noisy, distracting and irksome. But in a few essential respects nothing is better than going to see a film Cinemas are getting a bit smug, aren't they? I mean, Hollywood always has been - hosting half a dozen lavish awards ceremonies a year, making a steady stream of love letters to itself, paving an entire street with names such as Kermit the Frog and Hoot Gibson (once a big name in cowboy films, to save you Googling) - but now it's the turn of the modern multiplex, reinv...