Going to the movies

The Star Cinema is Stayton's sole movie theater, with one screen. It's run by a family who has made it very community driven, holding fund raisers, concerts, old movie night, local sports on the big screen, etc. They get first-run movies as a matter of course, which is pretty darned nifty for a small town movie theater.

The theater has quite the history, having been around for most of a century in one form or another. If you're interested, head on over to the Star Cinema's web site.

Not exactly important and vaguely related fact: I saw the midnight showing of Star Wars Episode III at the Star last year. You haven't really lived until you've been in a theater in the middle of the night with 300 somewhat groggy strangers singing along with Weird Al Yankovic's "The Saga Begins," which was played before the movie started.

Other views of the theater: at night, matinee sign