Movies At The Cinema
Watching movies at the cinema continues to be a favourite pastime for Australians who can enjoy a night out with their family or partner watching the latest Hollywood blockbuster movies.
Obviously with the advancement in technology in recent years the number of people who frequent cinemas and drive in theatres has dwindled. However, cinemas today are enjoying a resurgence in numbers as patrons flock back to the cinema for a night out at the movies.
The movie theatre companies had to do something to entice patrons back to the theatre and the introduction of discounted tickets wasn't enough. Today, you can enjoy Gold Class service that allows you some intimacy with a seating area for no more than 30 people while you get to enjoy a smorgasboard of food while a bar menu is also available, as is a waiter.
It's more like an airport lounge now when you arrive at a cinema theatre and wait for your movie to start.
While the silver service is a great initiative to get people back in the door the quality of cinema viewing has also improved in recent years. The size and quality of the cinema screens has improved greatly with the Hoyts cinema 5 in the Sydney suburb of Blacktown boasting the largest multiplex cinema screen in Australia measuring 28 metres in width.
The IMAX theatre in Sydney boasts the world's largest cinema screen and gives you the opportunity to watch films in 2D and 3D. Nothing compares to the quality of an IMAX theatre with this state-of-the-art technology giving you the ultimate viewing experience. You can find the IMAX theatre on the waterfront at Sydney's Darling Harbour.
Now we don't all live in Sydney so the cinema theatres have to provide something for the rest of us to get us in the door. Fortunately, Gold Class service is available Australia wide through Greater Union and Village Cinemas.
Movie theatres have also introduced cinema clubs, movie clubs, and a variety of different corporate products to allow people to buy cheap cinema tickets. Discounted movie tickets are available for bulk purchases made by companies who wish to have a night at the movies for their social club event or even to entertain their clients with a night at the movies.
Movie theatres also cater for birthday parties with special tours for your child's birthday party at the movies a surefire way to keep your house clean on the weekend. Discounted tickets are again available for the adults who accompany the children.
The cinema theatre has a great deal of competition to get you to the movies and all cinemas now provide something for everyone. Special discount nights are usually held on Tuesday's. Be sure to make use of our online web directory to find discount movie tickets for your next night out at the cinema.
Movies Currently Playing at the Cinema
When a Swedish couple are murdered in their apartment, a nation-wide manhunt begins for the prime suspect, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace). The couple were working closely with Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) at Millennium magazine to expose the sex trafficking trade in Sweden, and Blomkvist, convinced of Salander's innocence, starts his own investigation into his friends' murders. Once again Salander and Blomkvist find their lives entangled in the most mysterious, and dangerous way.
Consumer advice: MA15
Runtime: 129
Meet the kid who made "wimpy" cool, in a family comedy based on the best-selling illustrated novel Diary of a wimpy kid by Jeff Kinney, the first in a series that has thus far sold 24 million copies. Diary of a wimpy kid chronicles the adventures of wise-cracking middle school student Greg Heffley (Zachary Gordon), who must somehow survive the scariest time of anyone's life: middle school.
Consumer advice: PG
Runtime: 92
Cats and Dogs 2 - The Revenge of Kitty Galore
In the age-old battle between cats and dogs, one crazed feline has taken things a paw too far. Kitty Galore (Bette Midler), formerly an agent for cat spy organization MEOWS, has gone rogue and hatched a diabolical plan to not only bring her canine enemies to heel, but take down her former kitty comrades and make the world her scratching post. Faced with this unprecedented threat, cats and dogs will be forced to join forces for the first time in history in an unlikely alliance to save themselves - and their humans - in Cats & dogs 2: The revenge of Kitty Galore, a comedy that blends live action...
Consumer advice: G
Runtime: 85
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Two men - one in his twenties, the other nearer forty, both intensely focused on the task at hand - line the inside of a transit van with plastic. Shopping, they buy a drill, a mattress and other supplies. In a small flat they assemble a bed for the mattress and staple foam insulation and board to the walls and windows of a bedroom. Then, their meticulous preparations complete, they kidnap a young woman. They drag her from the street into the back of the van and, with a bag over her head and ball gag in her mouth, take her back to the flat, tying her to the bed in the room they have converted ...
Consumer advice: TBC
Runtime: 96
Kate (Catherine Keener) has a lot on her mind. There�s the ethics problem of buying furniture on the cheap at estate sales and marking it up at her trendy Manhattan store (and how much mark-up can she get away with?). There�s the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter (Sarah Steele) to want the expensive things that Kate wants. There�s the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with her husband Alex (Oliver Platt) but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations. And there�s Kate�s free-floating 21st century malaise - the problem of how to live...
Consumer advice: M
Runtime: 91
NYPD Detectives Christopher Danson and PK Highsmith (Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L Jackson) are the baddest and most beloved cops in New York City. They don't get tattoos - other men get tattoos of them. Two desks over and one back, sit Detectives Allen Gamble (Will Ferrell) and Terry Hoitz (Mark Wahlberg). You've seen them in the background of photos of Danson and Highsmith, out of focus and eyes closed. They're not heroes - they're "The Other Guys." But every cop has his or her day and soon Gamble and Hoitz stumble into a seemingly innocuous case no other detective wants to touch that could tu...
Consumer advice: M
Runtime: 107
Walt Disney Studios, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Jon Turteltaub, the creators of the "National Treasure" franchise, present The sorcerer's apprentice - an innovative and epic comedy adventure about a sorcerer and his hapless apprentice who are swept into the centre of an ancient conflict between good and evil. Balthazar Blake (Nicolas Cage) is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath (Alfred Molina). Balthazar can't do it alone, so he recruits Dave Stutler (Jay Baruchel), a seemingly average guy who demonstrates hidden...
Consumer advice: PG
Runtime: 109
In this hilarious family comedy with a message, greedy developers pay the price for paving over paradise. For Mother Nature, revenge is a dish best served... furry! After transplanting his family from Chicago to the Oregon woods for his job overseeing the construction of a supposedly "eco-friendly" housing development, Dan Sanders (Brendan Fraser) thinks his biggest problem will be helping his nature-phobic ten-year-old son adjust. Or pleasing his demanding boss. But when his leadership role in the destruction of their habitat puts Dan atop the local animals' hit list, he realises how much tro...
Consumer advice: PG
Runtime: 91
Tomorrow when the war began follows the journey of eight high school friends in a remote country town whose lives are suddenly and violently upended by a war that no-one saw coming. Cut off from their families and their friends, these eight extraordinary teenagers must somehow learn to escape, survive and fight back.
Consumer advice: M
Runtime: 104
In a happy suburban neighbourhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbours, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army of minions, we discover Gru (Steve Carell), planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon (Yes, the moon!) in Universal's new 3-D CGI feature, Despicable me. Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand i...
Consumer advice: PG
Runtime: 95
A sexy comedy of errors about a very modern family. The Allgoods are a close family experiencing life's typical ups and downs: 18-year-old daughter Joni (Mia Wasikowska) is heading off to Stanford University and starting to distance herself from her parents; 14-year-old Laser (Josh Hutcherson) is hanging out with a deadbeat friend who constantly leads him into trouble. The only difference is that this family has two mums. Jules (Julianne Moore) and Nic (Annette Bening) have been together for years, are deeply in love, and had both children through artificial insemination. This loving but strai...
Consumer advice: MA15
Runtime: 101
Erin's (Drew Barrymore) wry wit and unfiltered frankness charm newly single Garrett (Justin Long) over beer, bar trivia and breakfast the next morning. Their chemistry sparks a full-fledged summer fling, but neither expects it to last once Erin heads home to San Francisco and Garrett stays behind for his job in New York City. But when six weeks of romping through the city inadvertently become meaningful, neither is sure they want it to end. And while Garrett's friends, Box (Jason Sudeikis) and Dan (Charlie Day), joke about his pre-flight calorie-cutting and his full-time relationship with his ...
Consumer advice: MA15
Runtime: 102
A spoof of vampire-themed movies, where teenager Becca finds herself torn between two boys. As she and her friends wrestle with a number of different dramas, everything comes to a head at their prom.
Consumer advice: M
Runtime: 82
Gr�goire Canvel (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing) has everything a man could want: a wife he loves, three delightful children and his dream job. He is a film producer and discovering talented film makers and developing films that fit his conception of the cinema - free and true to life - is precisely his reason for living. His job is demanding and Gr�goire devotes almost all of his time and energy to his work. Although he spends weekends with his family at their house in the country - gentle interludes away from the hustle-and-bustle of metropolitan life - even these precious moments are often interr...
Consumer advice: M
Runtime: 106
Every year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 for Spring Break, a riot of sun and drunken fun. But this year, there's something more to worry about than hangovers and complaints from local old timers; A new type of terror is about to be cut loose on Lake Victoria. After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the area's new razor-toothed residents.
Consumer advice: TBC
Runtime: 80
The year is 1984, and on the rural East Coast of New Zealand "Thriller" is changing kids' lives. Boy (James Rolleston) is a dreamer who loves Michael Jackson. He lives with his brother Rocky (Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu), a tribe of deserted cousins and his Nan (Mavis Paenga). Boy's other hero, his father, Alamein (Taika Waititi), is the subject of Boy's fantasies, and he imagines him as a deep sea diver, war hero and a close relation of Michael Jackson (he can even dance like him). In reality he's "in the can for robbery". When Alamein returns home after 7 years away, Boy is forced to confront t...
Consumer advice: TBC
Runtime: 87
Based on the novel by legendary pulp writer Jim Thompson, Michael Winterbottom's The killer inside me tells the story of handsome, charming, unassuming small town sheriff's deputy Lou Ford. Lou has a bunch of problems. Woman problems. Law enforcement problems. An ever-growing pile of murder victims in his West Texas jurisdiction. And the fact he's a sadist, a psychopath, a killer. Suspicion begins to fall on Lou, and it's only a matter of time before he runs out of alibis. But in Thompson's savage, bleak, blacker than noir universe nothing is ever what it seems and it turns out that the invest...
Consumer advice: R18
Runtime: 109
Chris Morris' Four lions is a funny, thrilling comedy that illuminates modern jihadism through the prism of farce. It understands jihadists as human beings. And it understands human beings as innately ridiculous. What This is Spinal Tap did for heavy metal and Dr Strangelove the Cold War, Four lions does for the modern face of terrorism.
Consumer advice: M
Runtime: 98
Juliette (Patricia Clarkson), a magazine editor, travels to Cairo to meet her husband, Mark (Tom McCamus), a UN official working in Gaza, for a three week vacation. When he is unavoidably delayed, he sends his friend Tareq (Alexander Siddig), who had been his security officer for many years, to escort her throughout the beautiful and exotic city. The last thing anyone expects is that they will fall in love.
Consumer advice: M
Runtime: 90
As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) swore an oath to duty, honour and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture. Salt's efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives, as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues and the question remains: "Who is Salt?"
Consumer advice: M
Runtime: 100