Please note that the following info is current as of April 2008.  The next update will be in April 2009.

Click here to find a list of all Brisbane cinemas with a link to their respective websites.

Overview

All these cinemas belong together as they’re starting to show their age and are of equal size.  Each has 8 cinemas in all and were the first of the BCC in Brisbane.  All can be found in major suburban shopping centres.  I frequented the Toombul cinema (which has since closed) on a weekly basis in the mid 1990s.

Movie Quality & Range - 3 out of 10

Sorry but here’s the bottom of the barrel.  They don’t show anything unless it’s a guaranteed money-spinner so anything remotely art-house or creative gets the flick.  Very poor if you ask me and it’s no wonder that I haven’t been to one of these cinemas in years.

Cinema Quality & Service - 4 out of 10

Just like the other Birch, Carroll & Coyle cinemas with average service.  These cinemas are a little more rundown than some of the newer BCC complexes and hence the poorer score. 

Price - 4 out of 10

Ticket price

·    Adults: $14.80, Students & Pensioners: $11.00, Children & Seniors: $10.50.

·    Discount day is Tuesday.  Usually all tickets to all movies are $8.50.

Candy bar

·     Small coke: $4.10, medium coke: $4.60, large coke: $5.10.

·     Small popcorn: $5.60, medium popcorn: $6.60, large popcorn: $7.60.

Other comments

·     Along with the other BCC cinemas, it’s Brisbane’s most expensive candy bar.  It’s a disgrace really.

·     Cost of a full-price ticket, medium popcorn and medium coke: $26.00 (almost double that of Southbank).