The cinema that ruins every other cinema experience for ever more…read more Quite simply the finest, classiest, most demure, seductive, charming and good old-fashioned fun cinema experience in Sydney and quite possibly the universe. Every time you visit a soulless megaplex after your time at Hayden Orpheum it will be a singularly disappointing experience bereft of any aesthetics or cultural value because really, how can anything compare? The cinemas are stunning art deco, they sell old-school choc tops, there's a solid program of the latest blockbusters and art house / doco fare, and they have insanely fun cult classics like a monthly interactive showing of the word movie ever made, The Room. There are love seats in the main cinema, and a freaking organ that rises up out of the floor for matinee performances. I know right! What what all the way. Best.

Being an eastern suburbs dweller, I've only been to the Orpheum on a couple of occassions. Each…read moretime I've sworn to journey over there more often (it's not even that far FFS). The Orpheum has kept it's gorgeous original deco interiors and exteriors intact, and the last time I visited (John Cleese triple bill including the Life Of Brian on Easter Sunday- kudos Orpheum!), there was a vintage pianist playing the grand piano in the lobby. I would love to see a silent movie thing here and I would bet money that they do them, it's that kind of place. Check out retro cinema Sundays- awesome and affordable triple bills that people dress up for. Old school wholesome entertainment, I love it.

The must be the longest escalator in all of recorded history. Standing under the Westfield entrance…read moreon the street you look up and it's so high you can't see the top, it just disappears into clouds. Plus it's lined with mirrors so you can check out yourself or others on the way up. Which sounds way creepier than I meant it to. They funnel you past the candy bar as you go up (no prices on display last time I went although this may have changed, which is annoying because I want to know how much I'm getting slugged for those sweet, sweet choc tops and gummi bears). The cinemas are big, they're clean every time I go, and you get to collapse into a cushy chair and forget about life over 2 hours of escapism. Yay movies!

High digital experience at Hoyts Chatswood. With constant rain outside I escaped for a cinema time…read more- twice! Tickets are at level 5 and cinemas on Level 6 - during my visit things processed fairly quickly with young, attentive staff. Any show in Cinema 1 is great. Ultra wide screen and the seats were fabulous. Cinema 3 was old and the seating was old but digitally it worked well

Check this crazy story of Hoyts screwing and scamming people! Sorry in advance if I'm bitter (be…read morewarned there will be some swearing)...so I finally decided to see Star Wars today and was a bit surprised that it cost $42.30 for 1 ticket, a large coke and large popcorn especially since they didn't have any prices on the menu as they had one of the stupid new digital ones that is always changing and only said "from $5.10" for drinks and "from $6.95" for popcorn. I didn't have time to argue as the movie was about to start so I just asked for the receipt. The girl didn't know how to print the receipt so she had to call a manager to tell her how to print one, wtf? Grabbed it and ran into the theater. Turns out I didn't have to run as they had 18 fucking minutes of commercials before the movie started. I don't mind watching previews of new movies but they only had 2 of those and the rest were ads...isn't the whole point of paying for a movie is so that you don't have to watch ads? This isn't free TV or free radio. So the movie starts and I'm already a bit bitter especially since my popcorn was already gone before it started. But I settled in and it turned out to be a pretty good movie...although I was kind of expecting halfway thru for them to stop the movie and have more ads, I mean why the fuck not? Movie finishes and I go to see if I can find the prices...didn't see them so I asked the same girl that rang me up how much a large pop and popcorn was, and she said the combo is $20.90. I started to turn and walk away when out of the corner of my eye I see a small screen that flashes a quick menu of all the prices so I wait for it to scroll thru all the screens (like 10 of them) before it cycled back and flashes for less than 2 seconds and it's gone again. Didn't even have enough time to see how much either of them were it went so fast. So I wait for the cycle again and bam, I see a large popcorn is $9.95. But have to wait again for it to cycle thru so I can find the drinks but miss it again cause it cycles so fast but get it the third time...$8.40 for a large soda, so I should have only been charged $18.35! I take a picture of the menu with my phone and ask for the manager. She comes down and I tell her I think I was overcharged for my pop and popcorn. She looks at my receipt and says, "nope that is correct, a large pop and popcorn "COMBO" is $20.90". I say clearly if you add up the two individual prices that it only comes to $18.35. You won't believe what she says next! "Well, ya if you bought them individually that's what they cost but you got a combo and that's the price of a combo. And because you already ate and drank the stuff there is nothing I can do." That is literally what she said and I so wish I would have recorded this conversation. So I'm like, "so you are saying it's cheaper to buy the individually than in a combo" and she says something like, "yes, cause that's the way we were told to ring them up" and then she goes on to say something about how it's $27 for a large star wars combo with the souvenir tin/cup but if customers don't want that, then they downgrade it to $20.90. I'm just flabbergasted at this point and don't know what to say so I just say, "none of this is making sense to me and I honestly do not understand what's going on..this is crazy...especially since you say you can't do anything about it but you can at least give me $3 back, right?"..."I guess I could do that" she says and goes and gets the money. The kicker to the story is because I had to stay after the movie to talk with her (and watch 18 minutes of ads), the mall only gives you 3 hours free and it put me 15 minutes over, so I was now supposed to be charged $5 to exit. I left the ticket inside the car so instead of paying at the machine before I left I would just pay with my credit card at the gate. But thank god, for some reason the gate was open (pretty sure cause a huge rainstorm had just came thru and they kept them open so people didn't have to get their cars soaking wet putting their windows down) so I didn't have to pay! Yay. So the point of the story is: #FuckYouHoyts , I will avoid you as much as possible in the future...just think of all the hundreds of innocent people you scam every day. No wonder the theater was almost empty and doesn't surprise me that movie theaters aren't doing well nowadays especially when we now pay so that we can watch ads before the movie! Can you at least put an asterisk on your website that states *there will be 18 minutes of commercials added on to the start of the movie and *it's more expensive to by a combo than individual items. Please share this with all your family and friends so they can be warned the next time they go to the movies and so they don't get screwed this xmas. End rant. #hoyts #hoytscinema #hoytslux #warringahmall #hoytswarringah #warringahmallwestfield #westfieldwarringahmall #westfield

I want to be gangster and call this place my hood haha. This is the cinema where you'll hit up this…read moreplace on a Friday night only to have an awkward encounter with a high school class mate that works there. Ahh the memories. The theatres are awesome, there's plenty of movie times, it's clean and the best part, it's situated in a massive shopping mall. Once again, no one cares if you bring in food from outside (I may or may not have snuck in Maccas before) and the food court and Coles is so conveniently located on the level below. A movie night out must always include a trip to Coles to load up on junk food! Tip: Park on the rooftop/Coles side for easier access. As per all Westfields, free parking after 6pm. Hooray for movie nights!

The cinemas are modern and there is plenty of parking in the shopping centre…read more I chose to book my tickets on line and by the time I paid the booking fees and ticket prices (which I thought were a bit pricey) taking my family to the movies was almost $100 and we haven't purchased any snacks for the movie. Would have been nice to also prebook my seat. The cinema needed a vacuum and a clean as it seems they just played back to back movies. The thing that saved the rating was it was almost empty so finding seats wasn't difficult. All in all a reasonable experience. Lost a star due to cleanliness on the night and not being able to prebook my seat after paying a premium.

Reading at Rhodes is excellent. Very comfortable seats and good size screens with amazing sounds…read more The staff are generally friendly.

My favourite cinema in all of NSW!!!…read more PROS: - Staff are really kind and help you pick out the right movie (if you haven't decided already) and right seats. - Great prices for tickets, food and drink. - Drinks and popcorn have a good range of sizes. - Cinema screen is large and the picture quality is great. - The sound is great and perfectly clear. - Gold Class is truly gold class w/ has amazingly comfortable seats and incredible food. - Gold Class is really well priced. CONS: - N/A

Reasonably priced and the food is good. Would definitely recommend the gold class. Seats are…read morecomfortable too

Older local theater reasonable condition although the bathroom never has pump soap just bars which…read moregrosses me out. There are an arcade and restaurant with bar downstairs which is nice. A sign outside the bar says you can take beer and wine into the theaters which is nice. My only real complaint is that they put popular movies in the grand seating theater and if you dont want to buy gold class seats you have to sit up top in the wings.

It ain't the worst cinema in the world... and it's great to have a cinema on the beaches. But boy…read moreit could do with a make over. The carpet is squelchy, it smells like a full laundry basket after two weeks of being untouched and the seats upstairs in the grand theater, you either fall through the bottom or brake your back on metal bars that seem to be sticking out of half of them. I'd love to support the local business but I often drive further to W'mall to have a nicer cinema experience.

Sometimes you just need to get away from the paparazzi and enjoy watching a movie with other people…read morewho understand that its tough being a VIP.... if you fit into this category than Gold Class Cinemas are for you. Tucked away from the hussle and bustle of the "normal" patrons, you can enjoy your pre- screening experience by waiting in the Gold Class lounge..... here you can order champagne and food as you wait for your movie session time to begin.... but wait, what if you can't get there early to enjoy the pre-movie snacks.... don't worry - you're a VIP.... someone will bring them to you during the movie.... When you check in, you can decide if you want food delivered to you during the film and when.... perhaps you want Nachos in the first third, champagne in the middle and an ice-cream sunday in the final act.... then the at Gold Class will make sure you get what you want.... And because it's super exclusive - you wil be one of about 30 people in the cinema with a reclining couch seat that lets you lie down... It's first class all the way....and if it wasn't so expensive I'd see a movie this way everytime.

I LOVE Collaroy Cinema, a venue that represents a time where going to the movies wasn't the same in…read moreevery suburb of every city of every county of the Western World. For me, it also represents an idyllic childhood on Sydney's Northern Beaches - school excursions, teenage outings and babysitting ventures have all taken place here. The beautiful blue building opposite Collaroy Beach is a bit faded and could do with a good lick of paint; but that's its charm. It's not another generified cinema complex, but an original thinker. The movies played here are also a bit original - more Australian films, indie flicks and independant pieces of cinema feature here than Hollywood, that's for sure. If you're harking for something different in the world of cinema, you can't look beyond Collaroy Cinema

We were very early arriving at our hotel and they had no rooms for us to check-in early so we had a…read morelot of time to kill. Even though we had just travelled about 24 hours, we decided a movie would be a nice way to kill said time. I thought it would be a nice nap time but the movie was interesting and none of us slept. This theater is odd but interesting. You buy tickets at the concession stand. I wish I had tried the popcorn but I assumed I might not be awake so eating was out. The theaters are spread around the floor in different pockets of the area, so it's more like walking to a different shop. Even though it was a matinee, we were told it was mostly sold out and that we'd have to sit in the second row. This worried me but the person selling the tickets said it's where they prefer to sit and, again, I assumed I'd sleep so we agreed. We sat in theater 11 and lone behold, it wasn't going to be a problem because the screen is far away and there's a good amount of space between the front row and the screen. The other unique thing about this room was there was a large window. I've never seen this in a movie theater before and it was cool. Don't worry, the drapes, once closed, were nice and thick and let no light in. The seats were comfy and did manually recline. I only like to recline if there's a leg rest though so I didn't do that.

Came here for a $5 movie deal. I believe they market themselves as a boutique kind of movie cinema…read more I dont think there was more than 25 seats, and the screen is not as big as your typical cinema. But the chairs were clean and comfy. I am not sure if I would want to pay full price for such movie experience...but their "award winning olive oil" popcorn is delish :)