We watched all eight!, one after the other until we were done, in mid-August 2021 at the Lindo Theater in Freeport, Illinois.

It took three days. The streetlights burned brightly the entire time, day and night.

 

Says here "Lindo" means "Lincoln-Douglas."

 

READ WITH ME the plot synopses of the eight movies:

 

• The Suicide Squad: Several convicts join a task force known as the "Suicide Squad" in exchange for lighter sentences, and are sent to a South American island nation to destroy a giant alien starfish before it falls into the local government's control.

• Don't Breathe 2: Unexpected secrets are exposed when organ thieves infiltrate a blind veteran's home and threaten a young girl he raises as his daughter.

• Respect: Jennifer Hudson portrays selected events in the life of young Aretha Franklin.

• Stillwater: An unemployed oil-rig worker from Oklahoma sets out with a French woman to prove his convicted daughter's innocence.

• Space Jam 2: After LeBron James's son is abducted by a rogue artificial intelligence (AI), he enlists the Looney Tunes' aid to win a basketball game against the AI''s avatars, in a Warner Bros.-themed virtual multiverse.

• Old: A group of people age rapidly on a secluded beach.

• Jungle Cruise: The captain of a small riverboat takes a scientist and her brother through a jungle in search of the Tree of Life while competing against a German expedition and Spanish conquistadors.

• Free Guy: A bank teller discovers that he is a non-player character in a massively multiplayer online game, and partners with a player to find evidence that a gaming company's CEO stole the source code of the player's game.

 

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In downtown Freeport, Illinois, on August 15th, 2021, the "Classic Cinemas Lindo Theatre" (opened in 1922, designed by Rapp and Rapp) on the east side of South Chicago Avenue, north of East Spring Street.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Freeport (2027931)

• Stephenson (county) (2027931)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• additions (building components) (300445666)

• arches (300000994)

• brick (clay material) (300010463)

• light brown (300127503)

• marquees (300003170)

• motion picture theaters (300007135)

• multiplex cinemas (300260475)

• sodium lamps (300181557)

• streetlights (street furniture) (300209443)

 

Wikidata items:

• 15 August 2021 (Q69306145)

• 1920s in architecture (Q11185486)

• 1922 in architecture (Q2744694)

• August 15 (Q2774)

• August 2021 (Q61313033)

• Classic Cinemas (Q5128119)

• Northern Illinois (Q7058402)

• Northwestern Illinois (Q7060327)

• Rockford-Freeport-Rochelle, IL Combined Statistical Area (Q114359532)

• Third Treaty of Prairie du Chien (Q27989231)

• Treaty of St. Louis (Q28433157)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Motion picture theaters—Illinois (sh98000295)

 

Union List of Artist Names IDs:

• Rapp and Rapp (American architectural firm) (500259340)

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