Cinema paradiso

Many of us have flat-screen TVs, surround-sound speakers and movies delivered to our doors, but unless you also have hired hands serving drinks and showering you with free popcorn while you watch a movie from a captain's chair, your dinky home theater can't touch some of the upscale movie houses that have opened in the Chicago area of late. But which of the plush palaces are worth the often-hefty ticket price? We consumed truckloads of Twizzlers to find out.