Hooray for Hollywood
BFI Southbank
Belvedere Road, South Bank, SE1
(020) 7633 0274
Waterloo
A hell of a lot classier (and cheaper) than your local Odeon and with fewer popcorn-chucking savages breaking their ASBO curfews. Designed for overlooked and underrated features, as well as favourite classics, you're likely to bump into a very arty bunch of film students, mostly surfing the wi-fi on their Macs in the shiny new Benugo bar. You can also browse hundreds of film and TV titles for free in the new Mediatheque, the BFI's public archives, and pick up hard-to-find titles from the DVDs and books in the filmstore.
Mon-Sun, 11am-11pm
Wed-Mon, 8.60 pounds, 6.25 concs; Tue, 5 pounds
Prince Charles Cinema
7 Leicester Place, WC2
(0870) 811 2559
Leicester Square
The thing about bargains is that they nearly always smell funny: vintage dresses, Ikea furniture, Lidl teabags. The Prince Charles Cinema is no exception, but it'll take more than a pong to deter the faithful punters who come to see the rotation of cult, arthouse and current films for as little as 1.50 pounds. Quentin Tarantino has raved about the place so much that they've named the bar after him. Kevin Smith got a plaque on a toilet cubicle.
Mon-Sun, 1.30pm-8.30pm
Mon-Fri, 4 pounds (members, 1.50); Evenings, weekends & public holidays 5 pounds (members, 3.50); membership, 10 pounds per year
Everyman Cinema Club
5 Holly Bush Vale, NW3
(020) 7435 1600
Hampstead
Wear your velvet robe and crown, because this is a cinema fit for a king. To start with, you're ushered to your seats, there are drinks coolers in the comfy chairs, and buzzers which when pushed conjure a waiter from the darkness to take your order. The menu is not typical cinema fare either, with Italian bread, olives and champagne. You might think there's something quaintly romantic about the usual popcorn-in-your-hair, tall-man-with-afro-in-your-way cinema experience, but double sofas are much more romantic, believe us.
Opening times vary
12 pounds
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