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Chambers_ immersive dining experience — the review

Fri, Aug 30, 2019
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An interactive story-driven culinary adventure that’s like being dropped into a Doctor Who–esque spacetime unknown. Weird, wonderful, sometimes unnerving. An intriguingly odd sensory odyssey.

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The Grand Expedition immersive dining experience — the review

Tue, Jun 18, 2019
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A round-the-world culinary adventure that’s like Secret Cinema, except about food rather than movies, with a Jules Verne vibe and a nostalgia for a time when the world was bigger than it is now.

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from Facebook: in case you didn’t get to Secret Cinema’s The Empire Strikes Back

Sun, Dec 27, 2015
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from Facebook: Secret Cinema is amazing

Thu, Aug 20, 2015
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from Twitter: life as a dork

Tue, Aug 11, 2015
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can the big studios and multiplexes learn from the success of alt opportunities for communal film consumption?

Wed, Jun 23, 2010
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The U.K. box office had one of its worst weekends in years — since December 2004, in fact — this past Friday through Sunday. Killers was the top film, debuting with just a little over £1 million in takings, and the overall box office down 22 percent from the previous weekend, which was already awful, … more…

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