Last weekend, my colleague Charles Williams took his family to the Skyview Drive-In in Belleville. It was his first visit to an ozoner in two decades. Now he says he understands why I won’t shut up about outdoor movie screenings.…

June 6 is the anniversary of the first drive-in theater, in 1933 in Camden, N.J. Drive-ins were invented by a fellow named Richard Hollingshead (whose patent was not simply for outdoor movies but for the little hillocks, or “ramps “…

I gave “Speed Racer” a second chance tonight, because it was playing at the drive-in, where every movie seems better.

In my new (albeit 15-year-old) car, I wouldn’t have minded the 150-mile round-trip drive to the Starlite, north of Potosi,…

Winter is now officially over. On the first weekend of spring, two local drive-in theaters re-opened for the warm-weather movie season.

The Skyview in Belleville (not to be confused with the Skyview on old Route 66 in Litchfield, Ill.) has…