Alamo Drafthouse celebrates grand opening of Brooklyn cinema with new comedian “Don’t Text/Don’t Talk” PSAs

Alamo Drafthouse, a 25-location chain of movie theaters based in Austin that prides itself on offering high-quality food with their movie offerings (and has expanded to include its own festival, Fantastic Fest, and entertainment website, Birth.Movies.Death), is celebrating the grand opening of its newest location in downtown Brooklyn this weekend with three new PSAs filmed with NYC-based comedians.

In case you’re still the type to text and/or talk during a movie, then please pay attention to these

Here’s Janeane Garofalo on the problem with toilet babies.

And the cast from Mike Birbiglia’s Don’t Think Twice: Keegan-Michael Key, Gillian Jacobs, Chris Gethard and Kate Micucci.

For some real Brooklyn sense, listen up to the creators of HBO’s High Maintenance, Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld.

And one more, for good measure, it’s Washington Heights native Lin-Manuel Miranda with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson!

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