Everyman Cinema

Here’s a first look inside Birmingham’s brand new Everyman cinema - a £3 million complex that’s a bar and diner combined with three screens and comfy seats. A place to meet up with friends an hour before your film begins so that you can savour the whole experience. And where, if running late, you can even take your food and drinks in, too. Built underneath BBC Birmingham – a company with a ready-made audience if ever there was one – its neat canalside entrance is next door to Tesco Express. Visitors are immediately greeted by a cavernous bar and diner area, where the treats include the company’s signature gourmet burger, comprising a pure-bred Aberdeen Angus beef pattie, with the cheese of your choice, dressed with house sauce and wrapped in a glazed brioche bun (£7.50, cured bacon 50p extra). They’re available to eat in the bar or can be served directly to your seat, with skin on, hand cut chips costing an additional £2.50 per portion. Wines vary from £5.20 for 175ml to £24.50 for the top-priced bottle; half a litre of Purity Ubu is £5.50, a large 660ml bottle of Peroni is £6.25 and a pint of Guinness £4. Most coffees are £2.60, a mineral water £2.10, cocktails £6.95, cakes £4.20 and popcorn is from £3 to £5. And how much just to see a film, I hear you ask? That’ll be £10 off peak and £12.50 peak for adults (call it £25 for a couple having a Saturday night out on the town) and £8 and £9 respectively for children under the age of 14. All seats have the novelty of footrests (except the front rows) and the largest Screen 3 has curved rows, too, to improve sight lines.