A world of cinema... for £162

Advantages: Great facilities, great Unlimited deal
Disadvantages: Expensive

...access to the following: - Restricted access to certain screens: Fulham Road (0207 370 2110); Hammersmith (0208 748 2388); Shaftesbury Avenue (0207 434 0032) - You can call them on those numbers to ask for more details. - Restricted access to the Café Bar: Harlow - No access to the cinema by wheelchair: Chelsea and Haymarket Disabled parking: Available near most cinemas (except Chelsea, Fulham Road, Haymarket, Nottingham, Shaftesbury Avenue, Dublin, Glasgow Renfrew Street, Hammersmith, Ilford, Staples Corner). Subtitled screenings: Subtitles are separately displayed at the bottom of the cinema screen to help viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing to follow the dialogue. Guide dogs: allowed at all times in all Cineworld cinemas. Audio description: Audio description (a narrated soundtrack). Ask at the Box Office...

babycougar 05.07.2009 · Read review
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Credo - I believe in cinema

Advantages: Beautiful, artistic, accessible
Disadvantages: Some may be put off by the subtitling

...FILM ONLY (with brief reference to the Director's Cut) Foreign language films are rarely top of my watch list although I have seen some cracking examples. Invariably those that I like tend to the arty side of cinema. Occasionally there'll be a foreign language breakthrough like Amelié which brings this genre to the attention of a wider audience whereas films such as Tous les Matins du Monde will remain forever in the background. Cinema Paradiso is, however, a film that is both accessible and beautiful and cannot fail to be appreciated by anyone with a love of cinema. That it is subtitled is far from distracting, the photography taking care of the story for the most part and one is quickly subsumed into a world that is all encompassing. Post-war Italy was a very different place to the society in which we live...

CareBear 15.08.2009 · Read review
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Love cinema? Cineworld Unlimited Card

Advantages: Great value if you use it
Disadvantages: Can be cheaper to pay as you go

...NOTE - THIS REVIEW RELATES TO CINEWORLD'S UNLIMITED CINEMA CARD RATHER THAN CINEWORLD IN TOTAL OR THEIR WEBSITE. I REQUESTED THIS TOPIC AND HAVE BEEN DIRECTED BY CIAO TO WRITE IT HERE SO PLEASE DON'T RATE IT AS OFF-TOPIC - IT'S THEIR FAULT NOT MINE. ************************************* I used to live in Suffolk not far from Bury St Edmunds. For many years there had been proposals to build a multiplex cinema and the fighting by both sides had been intense. In Suffolk the yes/no camps for a multiplex were as firmly entrenched as the yes/no campaigners for fox-hunting, adoption of the Euro or banning smoking in public places. The situation appeared intractable and so the only local cinema option was an inappropriately named ABC Cinema - I say inappropriate because it only had two small screens - more of an 'ab' than and 'ABC...

koshkha 15.05.2006 · Read review
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Better than the cinemas! Fresher too!

Advantages: Real cinema sweet taste.
Disadvantages: No re-seal option on the bag.

...After a busy week of looking after children, house and husband I don't mind admitting to looking forward to Sunday evening, Sunday is my other halves day off and once 6.30 hits it's just us, peace and quiet! We usually like to sit in front of a film or play the ps2 with a varied selection of snacks spread out in front of us. I discovered Butterkist cinema sweet popcorn just before Christmas; we do a huge shop every year and buy in tonnes of naughty things to see us through the Christmas period. Normal toffee popcorn can sometimes be a bit too sweet so I thought I'd give the new cinema sweet variety a try, i've not had toffee popcorn since. Produced in Pontefract, West Yorkshire Butterkist is the UK's leading popcorn brand, it is made by Monkhill Confectionery which is part of the Cadbury Schweppes group. Butterkist popcorn was...

piggypine 09.03.2007 (11.08.2008) · Read review
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A Stunning Display

Advantages: Stunning quality and big size
Disadvantages: VERY expensive!

...This monitor is the best in existence, and by the end of this I hope to convince you of this fact. Let's start with compatibility. Now, this is the tricky one. Essentially, it will only work with Apple powermacs that were built over the past couple of years, as it uses Apple's proprietary connector, the Apple Display Connector. This has the advantage of sending power, digital image signal and USB over the one cable. However, you might be able to get a conversion box that would allow you to connect it to a DVI-out or a vga out, but the box might cost up to 300 pounds. Image wise, it is a beauty, sporting a 22 inch widescreen flat-panel LCD screen. Yes, thats large enough for 2 A4 pages, with room for pallets. The resolution is slightly lower than you might expect at 1600x1024, but this is extremely bright and clear, and items...

iMacfan 22.01.2002 · Read review
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Europes tallest cinema

Advantages: price, location, choice
Disadvantages: lack of parking

...are located on 3 floors (2nd, 3rd and 4th). Signposting to the screens at each floor is very good (providing the windows-based software is working!). Once you've reached the correct floor then you proceed through the drinks/refreshments area (making you feel like you HAVE to buy something). Surprisingly prices are very competitive, for both a cinema and the city centre. You are permitted to bring your own drinks/refreshments. There is also a bar on the 1st floor, one of the few licensed cinemas in Scotland! Each screen is very easy to find, although the toilets are located at the end of corridor, making it a long trip for some. The toilets are excellent. The doorway to each screen has yet another PC-based display, a very nice touch, although you can see the odd one with the windows failure! I've been to this cinema numerous...

MJKerr 03.06.2002 (01.01.2003) · Read review
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Maidenhead Odeon Cinema - stay away!!

Advantages: there wasn't any!
Disadvantages: no food or drink, dirty, screens didn't work, didn't show any of the top movies

...I don't know anything about Maidenhead to be honest, but I'm pretty sure this is the only cinema there. I was away staying at me girlfriends Nan's last week, and we wanted to go to the cinema. We went swimming first, which is why we were at Maidenhead in the first place. Anyway, we got there at about midday, and couldn't wait to sit down and enjoy our movie... At the time we weren't one hundred percent sure what we wanted to see... I wanted to see the new Batman film, however my girlfriend hadn't seen any of the other Batman films and wanted to see them before spending £7 on seeing the newest one. So we decided we'd see that another time. We both wanted see Wall-E, and had both heard pretty good things about it - and we'd both been laughing at the films trailer the night before when we saw it on TV! So we'd finally decided what film...

spidercallum 16.08.2008 · Read review
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UGC: Unbelievably Great Cinema

Advantages: 19 screens means loads of films to choose from!
Disadvantages: Sweets are rather expensive.

...When this monstrous building was erected in the heart of Glasgow, I was a few years younger than I am now and not much of a cinema-goer. My dad told me it was the tallest cinema in Europe and I was impressed, but when I was dragged along by him to see a film there, my first experience was horrendous. First of all, their listings displayed on Teletext and outside the cinema were wrong and the film I was wanting to see wasn't actually playing, although Teletext and their billboards outside said it was. Then, when we finally decided on something else (as there was hardly anything on until later that night), we had to wait in a huge, slow-moving queue to get our tickets. The place was jam-packed with people and you could barely get moving, and it was just entirely unpleasant. It's no surprise, then, that I was somewhat reluctant to go...

Guru-On-A-Mountain 27.09.2004 · Read review
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Home Cinema + Stereo

Advantages: clean sound, nice finish, good all round speaker
Disadvantages: a bit, just a bit "boomy" bass

...I bought Monitor Audio RS6 speakers about 1.5 year ago now... And They still surprise me, getting better and better each day. In all reviews you can read about long run-in process. How very true. Each hour, day and week they will become more musical. Remember it is always worth to invest some money in cables, let them spread the wings, maybe the speakers are not top shelf, I would say more like a upper "budget" but nevertheless give them "some space". I did some listening in the shop (on an arcam system), comparing them to monitor audio brozne, smaller silvers - RS5, Acoustic Energy Neo 3 and B&W 685 (highly acclaimed - how fair). The only contestant in fact was the last - B&W with "highs" far better, far cleaner... but lows not as deep, and I wanted a speaker that would combine music with cinema performance... If not (If I was only...

alaner1 11.12.2009 · Read review
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Odeon cinema - The Quay

Advantages: modern, clean
Disadvantages: access by road only

...Although located about 2 miles from the city centre, The Quay is in a retail park based around the Odeon cinema, making ideal for city centre visitors without having to pay parking charges. Ideally located for access from the M8 (eastbound Kinning Park exit), and from the M77. 12 screens, from 89 to 279. Normally showing between 14 and 18 films, at various times. Adult tickets are £5, students/children are £3.50. No further discounts are currently offered (as at 01/06/02). After entering the foyer, a rather vast servery is available in the centre of the floor. You are permitted to bring your own food/drinks onto premises. No alcohol is permitted, and there are no bars/licence. I have made several visits to this cinema and been in most of the screens, from the small cosy 89 seater to the massive 279 seater. All films...

MJKerr 03.06.2002 (04.06.2002) · Read review
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