Millie Week 15; Mon 10 - Wed 12 Dec 1990

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Look, the promotion in The Mirror's over and the strip's its normal height again.

Multiplexes were something new in Britain at the time, along with the concessions stand. Before the multiplex, you were lucky to get a bag of Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles and a carton of Kia Ora (a sickly still orange drink) at the snack bar of the cinema. Now we were presented with industrial quantities of popcorn and cardboard vats of fizzy drinks. I now smuggle my own Fruit Pastilles into the cinema...

It's a Cannon cinema! That takes me back. Cannon was an Israeli owned chain, the main conduit for Golan/Globus's movies that no-one else would touch. Nowadays we have the straight-to-DVD movie - back then in Tunbridge Wells we had whatever was Cannon screen 3, in a converted bar where the screen was wider than the depth of the seating.

As you can see in Wednesday's strip, Teenage Mutant Hero/Ninja Turtle fever was at its height at the time...