‘The cinema is romanticised on TikTok’: Gen Z on why they love going to the movies (opens in new tab)

Filmgoers born after 1997 are reviving cinemas’ hopes of survival. They tell us about the social experience where ‘there’s absolutely no commitment to chat’People born between 1997 and 2012 are now more frequent cinemagoers than some older age groups, according to a US-based survey by Fandango, with 87% having seen at least one film in a cinema in the last 12 months compared with 58% of baby boomers.With this in mind we asked young people about why they love the cinema. Continue reading...