Modern Moviedromes

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

Gloucester 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 Maximum Reality screenings have attracted huge noisy audiences by taking a -usually schlocky- film and adding 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. It was conceived and masterminded by programmer Andrew Mitchell-Stead, who got a write up in Empire for it.