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.

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

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.

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.

The Staff are brilliant the food is great and the seats are exactly what you want. We go here…read moreeverytime we want to see a movie now. I love it

I haven't seen an old style cinema building like this for a long, long time. Probably not since I…read morelast saw a movie in Richmond in about 1997. Since I've been living about 7,500 miles (12,000 K) away, it was just a little too far to go for a movie, with those long security lines, and the price of air travel and all. Hard to find the time really. But since we were visiting locally in November 2012, I took my young son to the Richmond Regent itself to see the latest James Bond movie Skyfall, and to see the cinema building itself. It gets super dark inside, which is very cool and this is probably the darkest theatre I know. In the pitch black you can immerse yourself in the movie. My research shows that the Regent Theatre is one of a large number of picture palaces built in Spanish style from the end of the 1920s. The cinema was designed by Herbert and Wilson, the architects and designers of the Parramatta Roxy cinema. The Regent is rumored to have a resident ghost, which doesn't surprise me. The creaky old floorboards remind me of a haunted house. There's a lot of history here. The building has an upstairs red velvet lounge area with couches, which was functional to hang out in those days when there were actually intermissions between double features or long movies. Nowadays I guess it's the place to take a cell phone call if a world leader needs your urgent advice before the movie ends. Or maybe it's a girlfriend calling to apologize that she was actually wrong about it all and you were right and she should have listened. I joke about this because such a girlfriend call is purely fictional and would never happen. A call from a world leader would be more likely. Now that I think about it I don't know the difference between a cinema and a theatre, or if there is a difference at all. Four stars for something historic and different from the mundane.

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.

All the kitsch! See,…read morewould you rather a soulless megaplex with a thousand cinemas and no personality, or a little ol' neighbourhood cinema stuffed full of curios and tchotchkes and I mentioned its quite literally right on the beach, right? This Picture Theatre defies the years, hell, it spits in the face of progress itself, and the world is a better place because of it. If you ever find yourself on the central coast come here for a night. Bring the missus. Buy an ice cream. And for God's sake allow some browsing time before the movie starts.

Beautiful theatre with fabulous staff :) a unique theatre experience…read more Very special and so helpful with fundraising evenings.