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Life-sized Iron Man statue in the Cineworld foyer in Edinburgh, which somehow I never noticed until fairly recently (in my defence it was next to the concessions stand and I rarely use that). Pretty cool decoration, beats the wee action figures on my shelves
I'm going to see Bad Times at the El Royale; it's a slick, but highly improbable, film I gave it 3 stars.
I could have given an internet link to the film but I hate trailers as they usually give far too much away so, in the cinema, I listen to music on my headphones and look at photos on my iPhone.
Cineworld Glasgow Renfrew Street is a cinema on Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Scotland, located in the north-east of the city centre. It is adjacent to Buchanan Bus Station and the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, as well as being close to Sauchiehall Street and Buchanan Galleries. At 62 m (203 ft) tall, the building is currently the tallest cinema in the world.
By 2003 it was the busiest cinema in the United Kingdom by admissions, having attracted over 1.8 million patrons that year. Cineworld Glasgow has 18 screens over six levels, and can accommodate more than 4,300 people. Its most distinctive feature is the huge glass curtain wall on the east face, which houses a system of criss-crossing escalators which are lit neon blue at night, although some are more drawn to the large elevator which runs up the side of the building.
The cinema was built on the site of The Glasgow Apollo (1973–1985), which was formerly Green's Playhouse (1927–1973). After the Apollo closed in June 1985, it was demolished in September 1987. The cinema was opened as the UGC Cinema in September 2001. In 2005, it became part of the Cineworld chain, when then-owners UGC sold all of its UK cinemas. Green's Playhouse, the original cinema on the site, previously held a record for being Europe's largest cinema in terms of number of seats (4,368). At over 60 metres (200 ft), and with an entry in the Guinness Book of Records, Cineworld Glasgow is the world's tallest cinema. However, during the cinema's construction, the building design came under heavy criticism from the architecture community.
In 2000, the building was designated the "Carbuncle of the Year" in an internet vote organised by Prospect magazine, its panel of judges criticising the design's contrast with the surrounding area. [Wikipedia]
For the past three months, Crossways has been working with Cineworld to produce a mobile cinema that will be able to go round to local communities to show films as well as visiting companies and events. It is hoped that we will eventually have a nationwide network of these vehicles which we provide, and Cineworld incurs the cost of purchasing films to show in the three small 15 seater cinema screens in the buses used.
The first two vehicles to enter service from tomorrow, and these are ex Cotswold Green Volvo Olympians R114 XNO and R176 HHK which were both new to London General. One will return to London and is based at Sullivan's depot, it will visit events in the area and local communities, the other is based at our Gloucester depot.
We wish to convert more step entrance double deckers to cinema's as they have relatively little service life left and resale value due to the coming DDA's, also they are more fuel efficient than low floor double deckers. If you are selling any such vehicles or wishing to scrap them please let us know.
International Film Festival 2008, Opening night International world Premier, The Edge Of Love.
18th June 2008, 5.30pm
Cineworld, Edinburgh
Sienna Miller
Keira Knightly
Actress
I went to see Welcome to Marwen at the cinema yesterday. It is quite interesting ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I was put in mind of the work of the photographer David Levinthal.
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We had such an amazing weekend in Newcastle in September, we decided to go for another one in November!
Thursday night we got there quite late so tea in the Mile Castle Wetherspoons then on to the cinema to see Dune. The Dune books are my favourite ever sci-fi books and I was very impressed with the movie.
As we were coming out, we noticed this mad table football table! I couldn't quite believe what I was seeing!
Room for 20 people, 10 each side each holding 2 rows of 'players'! Wow! I've never seen anything like that before in my life!
I've booked to see the film Cruella with my middle grand-daughter this afternoon. This will be my first visit to the cinema since the 8th of October last year.
The Bulls Head from Tennant Street.
Davenports - formerly the City Tavern on the corner of Bishopsgate Street at the Five Ways Entertainment Complex.
Has been dressed in the past as The Garrison from Peaky Blinders when they premiered at Cineworld.
Was heading to watch Jurassic World Dominion.
It is Grade II listed.
City Tavern Public House, Birmingham
SP 08 NEBIRMINGHAMBISHOPSGATE STREET
(South West side), Ladywood
997/8/10024
City Tavern Public House
II
Alternatively known as : City Tavern Public House, TENNANT STREET, LADYWOOD.
Alternatively known as : Bulls Head Public House, BISHOPSGATE STREET, LADYWOOD.
Alternatively known as : Bulls Head Public House, TENNANT STREET. LADYWOOD.
Public House. 1901, restructured internally in c.1984. Designed by James and Lister Lea for Ansells Brewery. Faced externally in terracotta, with glazed red brick and a Lancashire slate roof. Baroque style. Two storeys and attics. Corner site (entrance now blocked) with longer elevation to Bishopsgate Street. This has paired bar windows with arched heads flanking a door and with two further doors to the left (originally the entrances to the private bar and the gents on the left and the off-sales on the right). All doors have rectangular leaded overlights and all openings have dropped keyed heads of the Gibbs type. Continuous decorative band at first floor level. First floor has seven windows with 2 over 2 panes all with similar elaborate terracotta surrounds and with glazed brick between. The attic storey has two dormers with timber casements and broken segmental pediment heads with obelisks on both the kneelers and in the central breaks. The Tennent Street front has a paired bar window and a doorway on the ground floor, the windows above and a dormer above that all as before. Two chimney stacks with wreathed tops and three pots apiece. Two storey, two bay wing to right for the kitchen and yard entrance. INTERIOR. The interior was remodelled in c.1984 when Ansells sold the pub to a syndicate from ITV. Open saloon with bar of c1984 in stained wood carrying brass lamps. Screen behind is original to 1901 with marbled frame, engraved glass, stained wood shelving and leaded snob screens with hinged lights. Hatch to stairhall of 1901 and hatch to pool room (former private bar) of 1984. Doorways to external doors at each end of bar are 1984. Very steep staircase with two turned balusters to each head and stained softwood handrail, lincrusta dado. Pool room has surviving 1901 fireplace with art nouveau iron grate, and tiled surround. Coloured wired glass of probably 1984. First floor said to have pool room and dining room (not seen). HISTORY. Original plan said to have been off sales/public bar/public bar/stair hall/private bar, with the last serviced through the present hatch to the hall. In c1984 the partitions between the off sales and the public bars were removed, the bar was rebuilt and the openings between the hall and the pool room made. The first floor probably originally had a billiard room and a dining room. The exterior of this pub remains unaltered and the interior still retains much of interest.
Listing NGR: SP0589086245
Bishopsgate Street - on the north east side the City Tavern, a terracotta pub of 1901 by James & Lister Lea.
From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster
The manager of our local cinema allowed me access to one of their screens whilst closed so I could take some pictures.
The great thing about no one being there was I could take in all my camera gear including light stands and reflectors.
My wife came with me to be my sexy assistant and help me get loads of fun shots.
We spent most of the time in the back row but managed to grab a couple of shots LoL.
The main shot I took and went to the cinema for I have entered into a competition which states you cannot enter if the picture has been published elsewhere so I can't put it on here for another few weeks yet.
Here is a back up picture to show you for now.
I set up my camera on my tripod and composed the shot then took 2 flashguns with me into the fire exit doorway.
My Nikon sb600 was on a light stand and pointing towards the ceiling and my Jessops 360 AFD was on a little floor stand placed on the floor just beside me pointing at the wall.
Both flashguns were set to around 1/4 power.
This shot is a testament to my Yongnou wireless triggers and receivers as not only was they around 50ft away they was hidden behind the wall out of line of sight and still fired faultlessly.
I converted to mono then done some dodging and burning then finished off by adding a picture of the famous Nosferatu scene to add to the overall horror feel.
Once the competition round closes I will be posting my main picture on Flickr and my blog with a lot more details.
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Empire Cinemas, Slough. Screen 5 is the largest with 467 seats and formed out of one of the former large halls. Starting out as the Planet Theatre and Fulcrum Entertainment Centre (incorporating the Thames Hall), it was converted into a multi-screen Cinema for Maybox in 1987. The Planet Theatre remains intact (as screen 4 Impact), with flytower and dressing rooms but the screen is now immovable and the backstage area is unused. It has changed hands a number of times and has been known as Gallery, Virgin, UGC, Cineworld and currently Empire. It has 10 screens ranging in size from 72 to 467.
cinematreasures.org/theaters/24512
Slough, Berkshire, England - Empire Cinemas, Queensmere, High Street
October 2019
The internal doors at the Cineworld cinema in Crawley have polished metal plates on them. Depending on the angle, one sees bright swirls against a darker background.
Actress Claire Danes on the red carpet for Adam at Cineworld, Edinburgh, 27th June 2009. Photograph: ©Margaret Drysdale/EIFF Edinburgh International Film Festival 2009
I've been to see Swallows and Amazons - a well made adaptation of the book by Arthur Ransome. It's suitable for children and for folk like me :)
To mark National Hotdog Day, Cineworld is giving a free hotdog to all its Clubcard members. I've just claimed mine and am tucking in 😀
In and around Llandudno last week the gulls seemed to be permanently complaining - maybe Autumn and Winter were coming too soon for them, as they were for me. The gull in the first photo was on the roof of a car outside Cineworld at Llandudno Junction, where we had gone to see the (entertaining) film ' Crazy Rich Asians', and dodge the showers. The second gull is on the baluster of Llandudno Pier.
This escalator leads to the first floor at the cinema in Crawley. I saw Dirty Grandpa with Robert De Niro. It has been panned by the critics but while it is a crass and vulgar film it is amusing in parts. Despite my going to see it on a weekday morning there were perhaps thirty to forty people watching with me and some laughed aloud at some of the jokes which one would not expect if one read the reviews.
Children's ride at Touchwood, Solihull based on the children's TV show Brum.
Near Cineworld Solihull.
Brum is a British children's TV programme about the adventures of a radio controlled car of the same name. It was produced by Ragdoll Productions for HIT Entertainment and first broadcast in 1991. It was initially directed, written and produced by Anne Wood, latterly directed and written by Vic Finch, Paul Leather, Emma Lindley, Morgan Hall, Brian Simmons, Nigel P Harris and others. It was initially narrated by Toyah Willcox and later by Tom Wright. The show was first aired on Children's BBC on BBC One (later on CBeebies).
Each episode of Brum begins and ends in the same way - with Brum, sitting amongst the cars in a motor museum. When the museum owner's back is turned, he comes to life and heads out to go exploring in the "Big Town", but always returns to the museum at the end of each episode. The opening sequence and closing sequence was filmed at the Cotswold Motoring Museum in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England. The model car used in filming is kept on display there when not in use.
Originally the programme was set in the city of Birmingham in England, hence the name: in addition to its onomatopoeic nature of a car engine revving, Brum is a common colloquial name for Birmingham and its inhabitants are known as Brummies. Later series make no mention of Birmingham, calling it the "Big Town", but Brum still continued to be filmed there and many Birmingham streets and landmarks can be seen in each episode, including Aston University.
Original run of five series from 1991 - 2002 on CBBC.
On 3rd July 1973, David Bowie retired Ziggy Stardust - his most celebrated alter-ego - in front of 5000 fans at London's Hammersmith Odeon.
Bowie's performance was captured on film by award-winning director DA Pennebaker and released under the title "Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars: The Motion Picture".
On 3rd July 2023, The Eventim Apollo (formerly the Odeon) hosted the global premiere of the digitally restored film, and it was simultaneously shown in cinemas worldwide.
Nice to be able to return to the cinema after so many months - I'm a huge cinephile and never gone that long without watching a film in the cinema (watched plenty at home, but the experience is not the same). Cinema had good Covid saftey protocols in place so it felt pretty organised and safe (in fact felt safer than recent train trip where covidiots just ignored the rules on public transport!). Quick snaps with the phone before the programme started.
Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller attend The Edge Of Love - Gala Opening of Edinburgh International Film Festival at Cineworld on June 18, 2008 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
All the Cineworld cinemas have been closed for several months, there is literally nothing to see here.
The hereios of the We're Here! group have paid a visit to the Nothing to see here group today.
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The Fountain bar, just across from the large Cineworld cinema on Dundee Terrace. Many years ago this was such a rough bar the locals referred to it as "the Vietnam". Several years ago it was totally revamped and much nicer, then went downhill a bit again.
Then in the last couple of years it was totally transformed into this very friendly and welcoming pub/restaurant, decent real ales and food, as good for a couple of pints as it is for families to go for an after movie dinner, and it's also a dog-friendly pub, so been in several times with chum and his hounds. Few quick shot on the walk home from work one night (no, I didn't go in that time, was certainly tempted tho, doesn't it look especially cosy at night?)
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We had such an amazing weekend in Newcastle in September, we decided to go for another one in November!
Thursday night we got there quite late so tea in the Mile Castle Wetherspoons then on to the cinema to see Dune. The Dune books are my favourite ever sci-fi books and I was very impressed with the movie.
As we were coming out, we noticed this mad table football table! I couldn't quite believe what I was seeing!
Room for 20 people, 10 each side each holding 2 rows of 'players'! Wow! I've never seen anything like that before in my life!
Nottingham City Centre - The Corner House opened in 2001 with the Warner Village Multiplex (later Cineworld, now Vue) contained within, the Complex is an entertainment and eating hub in the city centre. It was designed by Benoy Architects. The city centre of Nottingham has a myriad of interesting buildings, both old and new, although there is clearly much investment required.
City of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England - Vue Cinemas at Corner House, South Sherwood Street / Burton Street
September 2025
Children's ride at Touchwood, Solihull based on the children's TV show Brum.
Near Cineworld Solihull.
Brum is a British children's TV programme about the adventures of a radio controlled car of the same name. It was produced by Ragdoll Productions for HIT Entertainment and first broadcast in 1991. It was initially directed, written and produced by Anne Wood, latterly directed and written by Vic Finch, Paul Leather, Emma Lindley, Morgan Hall, Brian Simmons, Nigel P Harris and others. It was initially narrated by Toyah Willcox and later by Tom Wright. The show was first aired on Children's BBC on BBC One (later on CBeebies).
Each episode of Brum begins and ends in the same way - with Brum, sitting amongst the cars in a motor museum. When the museum owner's back is turned, he comes to life and heads out to go exploring in the "Big Town", but always returns to the museum at the end of each episode. The opening sequence and closing sequence was filmed at the Cotswold Motoring Museum in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England. The model car used in filming is kept on display there when not in use.
Originally the programme was set in the city of Birmingham in England, hence the name: in addition to its onomatopoeic nature of a car engine revving, Brum is a common colloquial name for Birmingham and its inhabitants are known as Brummies. Later series make no mention of Birmingham, calling it the "Big Town", but Brum still continued to be filmed there and many Birmingham streets and landmarks can be seen in each episode, including Aston University.
Original run of five series from 1991 - 2002 on CBBC.
Built on part of the site of the Meccano factory.
"The new MGMs were a scheme of Canadian-based Cine-plex Odeon under the Gallery name they adopted when Rank objected to the word "Odeon" being part of their title. Gallery Cinemas were sold to Cannon in March 1990”.
Cannon were taken over by MGM.
Opened 30 August 1991 as MGM Cinemas with 8 screens ranging in size from 200 to 350 seats each..
The two photos were taken on the opening day.
Renamed Virgin in 1996.
Renamed UGC in 1999.
Renamed Cineworld in 2005.
The lease wasn't renewed, so the cinemas closed on 14 July 2016.
Demolished August 2016.
The first multiplex on Merseyside to be demolished.
This 9 screen cinema opened in December 1995. Originally owned and operated by MGM, it was then operated by Virgin, then UGC and Cineworld.
Empire Cinemas, Slough. Former Planet Theatre - now Impact Screen 4). Starting out as the Planet Theatre and Fulcrum Entertainment Centre (incorporating the Thames Hall), it was converted into a multi-screen Cinema for Maybox in 1987. The Planet Theatre remains intact (as screen 4 Impact), with flytower and dressing rooms but the screen is now immovable and the backstage area is unused. It has changed hands a number of times and has been known as Gallery, Virgin, UGC, Cineworld and currently Empire. It has 10 screens ranging in size from 72 to 467.
cinematreasures.org/theaters/24512
Slough, Berkshire, England - Empire Cinemas, Queensmere, High Street
October 2019