Hot on the heels of every original Spider-Man and Star Wars movie being screened again in Westside, Batman is now swooping in to gatecrash their parties at the 12-screen Cineworld Broad Street multiplex.
The Batman season includes a rare silver screen return for Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr Freeze in Batman & Robin (1997), as you can see in the picture below.
Plus there is a sci-fi bonus of a 40th anniversary return for Arnie in a ‘4K restoration’ of James Cameron’s seminal action thriller The Terminator,
The re-runs are a consequence of the pandemic and then the writers’ strike both affecting the supply of Hollywood movies at a time when Netflix and Disney+ have been challenging traditional distributors.
But they also give audiences the chance to see movies in surround-sound cinemas that they were too young to enjoy at the time of release – or perhaps were not even born then.
You can also go back in time with Cineworld’s ticket prices, because all of the films it is showing below are just £5 each!
To kick things off, there is a 30th anniversary return of John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (18, 155 mins) which will be showing in Cineworld’s Screen 2 from 7.15pm on both Saturday 24 and Tuesday 27 August.
The Terminator (15, 107 mins) is then showing from 7.45pm in Screen 2 at Cineworld on Friday 30 August. The sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day (15, 137 mins) is at Odeon Broadway Plaza (tickets £7.50 each) on Thursday 29 August from 7.50pm.
The Batman ’85 years’ season at Cineworld then starts with Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (PG, 73 mins) on Wednesday 4 September in Screen 1 at 7.15pm. This 1993 animation features Kevin Conroy as the voice of Batman, with Star Wars’ Mark Hamill as The Joker. A new vigilante assassin is on the loose and Batman is wrongly implicated.
Batman Forever (12A, 120 mins) is then showing on Saturday 7 September on Screen 7 at 7.15pm. Val Kilmer is Batman and Chris O’Donnell is Robin in director Joel Schumacher’s 1995 adventure, with Tommy Lee Jones playing Harvey Two-Face alongside Jim Carrey (Riddler) and Nicole Kidman (Dr Chase Meridian).
Next up is Batman & Robin (PG, 125 mins) on Wednesday 11 Sep on Screen 1 at 7.15pm. Released in 1997, Joel Schumacher’s second ‘dark knight’ movie stars George Clooney as Batman alongside Chris O’Donnell’s returning Robin, with Arnie as Mr Freeze.
Batman Begins (12A, 140 mins) is on Tuesday 17 September on Screen 1 at 7.15pm. Future Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan launched his Batman trilogy in 2005 with star Christian Bale in the lead role and Cillian Murphy as Dr Jonathan Crane. Eight years later, the Irish actor would star as Tommy Shelby in the 2013 Cineworld Broad Street premiere of a new BBC series called… Peaky Blinders. This year, both Nolan and Murphy won Oscars for best director and best actor for Oppenheimer.
The Dark Knight (12A, 152 mins) runs on Saturday 21 September on Screen 7 at 7.15pm. Nolan’s second Batman movie (2008) with the late Heath Ledger as an unforgettable Joker. Tickets are already selling well for this fan favourite.
The Dark Knight Rises (12A, 164 mins) is on 26 September on Screen 1 at 7pm. Christopher Nolan’s third Batman adventure (2012) starring Christian Bale, with another future Peaky Blinders’ star, Tom Hardy, arriving as bad boy Bane.
Finally, The Batman (15, 176 mins) shows at Monday 30 September on Screen 1 at 7pm. Matt Reeves directs Twilight star Robert Pattinson (pictured below) in this 2022 revival with Colin Farrell as Oz and Paul Dano as The Riddler. A follow-up is on the cards for possibly October, 2026.
Further viewing: visit these pages for details of The Spider-Man season in Westside, and the list of Star Wars screenings.
Main picture: the late Heath Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight.
ENDS
