Thurday night at the movies

Now that they are off to big school, Emily and her friends have decided that they are old enough to go to the cinema by themselves, so yesterday they took themselves off to our local mini-multiplex (do five screens at the top of a miniscule neighbourhood shopping mall count as a multiplex? I don't know) to buy tickets for the latest 3D offering. Rather sweetly, and despite their collective grown-up-edness, the film they have chosen to watch (and have been looking forward to for weeks, by all accounts) is The Smurfs ("So that none of us get scared, Dad.")