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

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.

So friendly I wish I could move in…read more The Mountains would be lost without Glenbrook Cinema, a little one-screen independent movie theatre here since 1968. With so many of Sydney's indie cinemas long gone, Glenbrook has made a perfect niche for itself, showing everything from the latest blockbuster to world cinema releases, all mostly with a run for a single week. So you have to be organised to make sure you don't miss something, but at $10 for all tickets (yes, really) you can even take a risk on showing up and seeing whatever's on. The screen does not block out all concept of peripheral vision, the sounds is not felt in the solar plexus rather than heard, the seats comfy and you can get a cup of coffee in a real cup and saucer with a bikkie on the side. Session times vary, so check the website. And the staff are lovely. I saw 'Agora' here recently and no-one pointed and stared at the poor weeping lady overcome at the fate of female philosophers. I'll be up again this week for 'Jane Eyre', being a sucker for corsets, repression and windswept moors in close proximity. No laughing if the urge for Kate Bush dance moves becomes too much, please.

Glenbrook Cinema has a wonderful atmosphere and the staff there are very friendly and eager to…read morehelp. However, due to there only being one available theatre, the options on what movie to see are limited. The screen itself is also very small. Overall, Glenbrook Cinema is good, it is great to support a small business and it has a great vintage atmosphere but the movies on show don't have that same 'epic' feel that movies at hoyts sometimes do.

ALL seats are extremely spacious, new and comfortable, and come with a small table area, unlike…read moresome other branded cinema (who I won't name) which crams 999999999 tiny red seats into one cinema. Hoyts cinema is large and people/viewers aren't inappropriately rowdy. Located in the shopping centre (westpoint) and therefore has a lot of parking and is very close to public transport and restaurant/food/drinks etc. Top tier cinema.

I've seen many a great band advertised here but as is my wont, the thing that finally got me here…read morewas the lure of a spankin new comedy night. And it doesn't hurt that this deep wild-wild-inner-western venue is on the freakin bondi junction train line! #ftw Hump Night (Wednesdays, in a camel themed bar, capiche?) Comedy's opening night was brilliant, with a stellar lineup & full house. The decor description is best quoted to the night's MC- David Smeidt- who described it ss if a gay pirate was having a garage sale. Camels, camel themes, and some classic posters- the gay pirates responsible for decorating Camelot have definitely never heard the expression, "less is more"... I ordered a garlic pizza cos it was like $8. It was alright & for $8 I ain't gonna complain the crust was a bit hard tho. Some pretty amazing looking mezze plates were doing the rounds and making me regret my decision. Now that I know how easy it is to get to and groovy a venue it is I'm looking forward to joining the camel cult.

Random nights are the best nights, aren't they?…read more My friend Isobel sent me a message last week, with a Facebook link saying, wanna check this out next week in good old Marrickville? I was like, yeeerrrppppp, let's go. Why not, right? So tonight, I look at the Facebook page to figure out where it is and its like all trendy and ambiguous "in the back streets of Marrickville".... well, where the FUCK is that, eh??? Bloody thing. Well, I figured it out and I can't tell you how AWESOME it was! Dimly lit, trendy, hipster kitch. Think Shady Pines, but not so much Americana. Yes, cowboys. But also gypsies, persian carpets, camels and eastern flair. The owner, came over and introduced himself to us and was like, how did you hear about us? Well, we have the very uncool story that Isobel's mum told her about it. Yeah, I'm serious. LOL. We think it's funny as hell too, especially since the place was so great, so unknown. Her mum saw some live music here a few weeks ago. I should probably make up a cooler story about how I know about the place that makes me sound really awesome with my finger right on the pulse of avant guarde Sydney or something, so when I bring people here I can be like... yeah... I'm cool... man?!! We had wines which were delicious. I had an SA Pinot Noir. Hey, look! I'm trying to learn my wines! Be impressed. I'm a wine doofus. Downstairs is "Django Bar" which is I guess, not a music venue. Camelot is technically on the top floor, and is a music venue with some food... the garlic pizza is amazing. Perfectly garlicky and cheesy melty goodness. Sean Taylor was playing, he was described as a Chris Isaak acoustic guitar type.... well, wow, I could have easily stayed out til past midnight if it wasn't a school night. He was amazing. Everything was 5 star. I'm really glad to be able to write this review for such a great NEW establishment, but it's even better that it's in my home suburb of dear old MARRICKVILLE!!! Marrickville is seriously Sydney's Brooklyn. Seriously. Its coming up in the world. Watch out.

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.

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!