Terry Prone: Sorry, but can film characters stop with the incessant apologising?

From 'Toy Story 5' to 'Practical Magic 2' — cinemas are full of gloomy movies that keep apologising for attracting our attention

Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock in ‘Practical Magic 2’. The only people who don’t apologise (but should) are the director and cinematographer. Picture: Warner Bros

ME, A breastfeeding baby, and its mother. We had the whole cinema to ourselves. Me and the mother socially-distanced from each other like we’d each got a degree in it during covid.

When the guy was selling me the ticket, he had warned me. The warning was so unexpected that I had to get him to repeat it. This showing of Practical Magic 2 was kind of restricted to young mothers, although if I didn’t mind being present when those mothers breastfed, he could let me in with them. It would be grand, I said. Not, as it turned out, that the mothers for whom the showing was restricted were in much supply. But then, at 10.45am, many of them mightn’t have had their day sorted.