NEWS, UPDATES, AND ANNOUNCEMENTS – 10.29.26

Room Rental Pilot Program Starts Next Month – After much planning, consideration, and assessment, we are finally ready to start offering room rental to our active and established media subscribers as part of an experimental pilot program. This will initially just be offered for the month of November to gauge interest and figure out best practices going forward. The guidelines are …

– Bookings can only be made by active and established (currently signed up as of October 28th and up to date on payments and payment methods) media subscribers. Opening or reopening accounts will not grant access during the pilot period.
– As this is a pilot with a degree of uncertainty and a whole bunch of rules, there will be no cost to rent the room.
– Group sizes will be limited to the person booking the room and up to seven additional guests. No more than eight people can be in the screening room at one time, and any minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
– Unfortunately, no outside food or drink will be allowed during the pilot period.
– All viewing materials will be supplied by the person renting the room. Our physical media catalog will obviously be an option (which is to say you can check out the movie you want to watch with your subscription) and all of our AV equipment (including streaming devices) will be available. You can even bring something from home. Totally up to you.
– Booking times will be limited to regular store hours (noon to 7 p.m.), not conflict with existing events, and limited to three hour durations.
– One booking per media subscriber during the pilot program.

Obviously this is all … a lot. But it offers the room with manageable parameters in a way that we hope evaluates interest in private bookings roundly, daytime events specifically, and access to the space generally. Please reach out with questions or booking requests at thevuinjp@gmail.com.

Weekend Popcorn Starts Friday – Popcorn is back. Truffle salt is back. At least on the weekends to start. We’ll be offering small bags at small prices starting this weekend (Friday through Sunday) to one and all. Swing by the shop and grab a warm snack and a memory of all the zany food stuff we’ve done (and not done) over the years.

New Releases This Week:
Silent Friend
Kim Novak’s Vertigo
Finding Emily
Re-creation

New Releases Next Week:
The End of Oak Street
Mutiny
The Rivals of Amziah King
The Uprising