Modern Moviedromes

The New Olympus shows mainstream features and Bollywood films amid theatrical red plush.

The UGC has a massive car park, lots of screens, big squashy seats and buckets of popcorn.

The Guildhall has a wood-panelled auditorium converted from the former council chamber. It shows the best of European cinema and is home to the Gloucester Film Society.

Its Blue Room and Maximum Reality screenings attract huge noisy audiences. The Blue Room has a cabaret feel, with tables and chairs and a bar. Maximum Reality takes a -usually schlocky- film and adds lots of daft special effects. Wind machines, corpses in the toilets, flying pretend slime and dog-drool, lots of dressing up and explosions and water-splashing. Conceived and masterminded by Andrew Mitchell-Stead, who got a write up in Empire for it.