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
A band of humans are pitted in a battle against a distant planet's indigenous population.
Consumer advice: M
Runtime: 150
An intense portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat. When a new sergeant, James (Jeremy Renner), takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Eldridge (Brian Geraghty), by recklessly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat. James behaves as if he's indifferent to death. As the men struggle to control their wild new leader, the city explodes into chaos, and James' true character reveals itself in a way that will change...
Consumer advice: MA15
Runtime: 131
The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war. But not everyone agrees that war is a good thing. The US General Miller (James Gandolfini) doesn't think so and neither does the British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster (Tom Hollander). But, after Simon accidentally backs military action on TV, he suddenly has a lot of friends in Washington, DC.
Consumer advice: MA15
Runtime: 84
It's the summer of 1969 and young Willie (Rocky McKenzie) is filled with the life of the idyllic old pearling port Broome, in the North of Western Australia - fishing, hanging out with his mates, and when he can, his girl Rosie (Jessica Mauboy). However his mother Theresa (Ningali Lawford) has great hopes for him and she returns him to the religious mission in Perth for further schooling. After being punished by Father Benedictus (Geoffrey Rush) for an act of youthful rebellion, Willie runs away from the mission. But to where... he's too ashamed to go home, it will break his mother's heart. Do...
Consumer advice: PG
Runtime: 85
Jane (Meryl Streep) is the mother of three grown kids, owns a thriving Santa Barbara bakery/restaurant and has - after a decade of divorce - an amicable relationship with her ex-husband, attorney Jake (Alec Baldwin). But when Jane and Jake find themselves out of town for their son's college graduation, things start to get complicated. An innocent meal together turns into the unimaginable - an affair. With Jake remarried to the much younger Agness (Lake Bell), Jane is now, of all things, the other woman. Caught in the middle of their renewed romance is Adam (Steve Martin), an architect hired to...
Consumer advice: M
Runtime: 120
Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), a corporate hatchet man who loves his life on the road, is forced to fight for his job when his company downsizes its travel budget. He is required to spend more time at home just as he is on the cusp of a goal he's worked toward for years: reaching five million frequent flyer miles and just after he's met the frequent-traveller woman of his dreams.
Consumer advice: M
Runtime: 109
In Harlem, an overweight, illiterate teen pregnant with her second child is invited to enrol in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.
Consumer advice: MA15
Runtime: 110
Newly-elected President Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
Consumer advice: PG
Runtime: 133
Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can't help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one man's crazy heart.
Consumer advice: M
Runtime: 111
The true story of an impoverished young man who become offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, and the woman who helped him.
Consumer advice: PG
Runtime: 128
An unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.
Consumer advice: MA15
Runtime: 98
In cinemas April 1. The last station is a love story set during the last year of the life and turbulent marriage of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) and his wife the Countess Sofya (Helen Mirren). Tolstoy, having rejected his title and embraced an ascetic life style, finds himself increasingly at odds with Sofya. As his devoted disciple Vladimir Chertkov (Paul Giamatti) urges him to sign a new will leaving the rights to his work to the Russian people rather than his family, the conflict between husband and wife grows to breaking point. The whole affair is witnessed by...
Consumer advice: M
Runtime: 112
Intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles break-up and make-up based on the pressures and expectations of Valentine's Day.
Consumer advice: M
Runtime: 124
Inspired by the classic Universal film that launched a legacy of horror, The wolfman brings the myth of a cursed man back to its iconic origins. Benicio Del Toro stars as Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father (Anthony Hopkins), Talbot sets out to find his brother�and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Lawrence Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother's fianc...
Consumer advice: MA15
Runtime: 102
Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim), part Arab, part Corsican, cannot read or write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. He is 19 years old. Cornered by the leader of the Corsican gang currently ruling the prison, he is given a number of "missions" to carry out, toughening him up and gaining the gang leader's confidence in the process. Malik is a fast learner and rises up the prison ranks, all the while secretly devising his own plans�
Consumer advice: MA15
Runtime: 155
Percy Jackson and the Olympians - The Lightning Thief
It's the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus and assorted monsters have walked out of the pages of high school student Percy Jackson's Greek mythology texts and into his life. And they're not happy: Zeus' lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Even more troubling is the sudden disappearance of Percy's mother. As Percy finds himself caught between angry and battling gods, he and his friends embark on a cross-country adventure to catch the true lightning thief, save Percy's mum, and unravel a mystery more powerful than the gods themselves.
Consumer advice: M
Runtime: 119
The year is 1954, at the height of the Cold War, when US Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) are summoned to Shutter Island to investigate the implausible disappearance of a brilliant multiple murderess from a locked room within the impenetrable Ashecliffe Hospital. Surrounded by probing psychiatrists and dangerously psychopathic patients on the remote, windswept isle, they arrive into an eerie, volatile atmosphere that suggests nothing is quite what it seems.
Consumer advice: MA15
Runtime: 138
A personal aide to the US Ambassador in France, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has an enviable life in Paris and a beautiful French girlfriend, but his real passion is his side job as a low-level operative for the CIA. All James wants is to become a bona fide agent and see some real action. So when he's offered his first senior-level assignment, he can't believe his good luck - until he meets his new partner, Special Agent Charlie Wax (John Travolta). A trigger-happy, wisecracking, loose cannon who's been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack, Wax leads James on a white-knuckle shooting...
Consumer advice: MA15
Runtime: 92
Torn apart by the shattering impact of the death of his long-time lover, college professor George Falconer (Colin Firth) experiences the most transformational day of his life, blending past and present, desire and despair, and discovering that love persists even after the object of love is gone. Set in a sun-drenched 1960s California coastal canyon, featuring revealing performances by Julianne Moore and Matthew Goode, A single man marks the breakthrough directorial d�but of internationally influential American fashion icon Tom Ford. Targeting indelible images of love, loss and rebirth, the fil...
Consumer advice: M
Runtime: 100
One golden afternoon, young Alice (Mia Wasikowska) follows a White Rabbit (Michael Sheen), who disappears down a nearby rabbit hole. Quickly following him, she tumbles into the burrow - and enters the merry, topsy-turvy world of Wonderland! Memorable songs and whimsical escapades highlight Alice's journey, which culminates in a madcap encounter with the Queen of Hearts (Helena Bonham Carter) - and her army of playing cards!
Consumer advice: TBC
Runtime: 90