Vue Shepherd's Bush

Mr Roe you are on a roll here with the multiplexes!

Essentially my local since its opening in 2001…The streetside marquee is limited, the mall experience so-so (particularly since the Books Etc decamped about two years ago), the popcorn has gotten really bad, the ambience a bit louche – the occasional mobile phone does go off but once you’re in the screen the stadium effect takes hold and it all works as a cinema going experience…but they are generous with coupons as a policy and vouchers if there is a malfunction

The programming for a chain multiplex has not been disgraceful either – the neighbourhood is truly multicultural and they manage to work in the odd art and foreign film and even some studio limited runs…Had the rare and unfortunate distinction of being the only patron for a 7:00 pm show of The Express recently – it’s not a bad picture but the market for movies about dying American footballers is limited

I tend to favor a tube ride to the Gate or Coronet Notting Hill these days and it will be interesting how two multiplexes survive if and when the Cinema De Lux complex in Westfield opens up across the way

A roll call of pictures we’ve seen here would include Zoolander, Seabiscuit, Anchorman, Master and Commander, Big Fish, Bourne Identity, Inside Man, Quiet American, Changeling, The Express, Open Range, Casino Royale, Bruce Almighty, Monster’s Ball, Minority Report, Devil Wears Prada, Capote, Kinsey, Good Night and Good Luck, The Simpsons (interrupted by an alert), American Splendor, The Wrestler, Oceans’s 11, Catch Me If You Can, Lost in Translation, Volver, Hollywoodland (a London Film Festival Surprise Film showing), Flags of Our Fathers, Far from Heaven, Chicago, About Schmidt, In the Bedroom, Sideways, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Children, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, The Walker and probably several more

photo of the lobby december 2010
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/5368493254/
the cinema continues successfully inspite of being over the road from the Westfield Vue complex, the two sites are programmed together and this location now has more esoteric programming (including arthouse and bollywood)