Even in an era when screens are literally everywhere — in the back seat with the kids, at the gas station while you’re pumping, in every room of the house and right here in your palm — people still love gathering in big happy clumps to enjoy movies.
Especially outdoors in local parks. In recent years, the city of Vancouver has wised up to the massive popularity of its various free summer concert series, and started programming free family movies in local parks, too. If you’re not up for an eardrum assault on a Friday night, you just might be ready to settle into a screening of something fun with your family.
It all begins July 7 at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site Parade Grounds with “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” which got generally good reviews when it emerged last year as the first standalone film in the “Star Wars” franchise.
Making double appearances on summer screens are several recent animated favorites, “Sing,” “The Lego Batman Movie” and “Moana.” The latter has been praised as for its beauty and its strong, three-dimensional female heroine. Each of these animated films is appearing at different times in both Vancouver and Camas city parks — so superfans could catch them twice.
