Odeon Whiteleys & The Lounge

UCI’s operations had a bit of quirkiness that Odeon’s didn’t. A letterboard promising releases well into the future – 2-3 years and a sense that even ordinary releases felt like events – it may be that the movies we saw there back in the early to mid 90’s felt like that too…Speed Hoffa A Few Good Men Mrs Doubtfire The Addams Family Batman Returns The Player Woody Allen’s Husbands & Wives Speed Clear & Present Danger Insomnia 12 Days The Pledge True Lies The Lion King Guilty by Suspicion Hannibal Gosford Park and probably several more that I am omitting…Imagine Robert Altman in our multiplexes today Loved walking through Hyde Park to get there. Loved taking my mom and my wife to movies there and loved the New Kam Tong Chinese restaurant (still there)