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The North Biddick kids film show at North Biddick Workmen's Club. Tell us if you recognise in this 1974 photo.

Get the popcorn and ice cream as we head to the retro pictures

Can Timothee Chalamet add an Oscar to his Best Actor Award for "Marty Supreme" at the Critics Choice Awards earlier this year?

Oscars 2026: Two tickets £10.99 or five £20.99

Nearly a fifth of 2,000 adults polled have no plans at all for December.

First there was Quiet Quitting, now there is Quiet Christmas

What better way to avoid the door knockers this Halloween than a trip to your local cinema to catch one of these frighteningly good releases this season?

What horror films are coming to cinemas for Halloween 2025?

The Metrocentre, in Gateshead.

Metrocentre reveals family-friendly activities for the Easter holidays

Anne Todd and Adrian Shepherd try out the new Odeon seats in 1975.

Getting smoochy with a retro romance story from Sunderland cinemas

Having fun at the Saturday morning cinema club. Tell us if it was a weekly 'must' for you.

Sunderland's Saturday morning cinema clubs. Over to you for memories

The Top Rank Suite in Sunderland in 1971.

Glitzy Sunderland as it looked in 1970s Januaries

New Year's Day at Metrocentre

What to Do on New Year's Day

Flashback to the day when The Flintstones came to Roker Park for a Chipper Club mega experience.

Sunderland Chipper Club memories, from The Flintstones to Herbie

Memories from a talent show at the Odeon in 1976.

Chipper Club members on stage: Memories from 1976

The latest film in the "Transformers" franchise is released this weekend, but is it worth going to see in the cinema or is it another "Transformers" movie worth missing instead?

Reviews, run time and age rating as new Transformers film released

Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton return as Lydia Deetz and Betelguese in Tim Burton's long-awaited sequel to 1988's "Beetlejuice." "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" arrives to UK cinemas this weekend.

Is Beetlejuice Beetlejuice suitable for kids as it releases this week?

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How to get £4 movie tickets at 600+ UK cinemas - for one weekend only

Bill Skarsgård has very big boots to fill, as he takes on the role made famous by the late Brandon Lee (right) with the "modern reimagining" of "The Crow," out in UK cinemas later this week.

Everything you need to know about The Crow remake ahead of release
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Benjamin Jackson

Cailee Spaeny stars in the seventh installment in the long running "Alien" franchise - "Alien: Romulus," which is released in UK cinemas from today (August 16 2024.)

Is “Alien: Romulus” worth going to see in the cinema this weekend?

"Borderlands" has been critically savaged since opening in August 2024 - but is it on track to be this year's biggest box office flop?

What have been the biggest box office flops of 2024 so far?

(Photo: Odeon)

Odeon to open Luxe venues with reclining seats ahead of release season

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Kids Club cinema - your guide to Kids Clubs and discounts this summer

Credit: Lisa Ferguson

Family activities to do for £5 or less this May half-term

Fab photos to celebrate Valentine's Day on Wearside in retro style.

Valentine's Day in Sunderland, from the 1970s onwards

Blue Light Card holders will be able to get exclusive offers this weekend

Blue Light Weekend launches with huge offers - how to claim

Breaking Odeon cinema to close several UK branches within days - full list

Odeon will close a number of cinemas in the UK next month

Full list of Odeon cinemas closing in the UK next month

It could be anything from the best junior disco in town to the Tufty Club. Tell us which club you were in.

Bentleys junior disco and eight other clubs you loved in Sunderland

Dickie Davies and the wrestling stars we saw in Sunderland.

Saturday afternoons with the great Dickie Davies
One of the greats of sporting TV has died aged 94, but who could ever forget Dickie Davies.
Chris Cordner

Reminders of the Odeon in Sunderland.

Rocking back to the days of the Odeon and Bill Haley

Were you in the Chipper Club? We're going through some Chipster memories, including this Family Fun and Football Night at Roker Park in August 1994. Did you go?

Fond memories of family fun as part of the Echo's Chipper Club

National Cinema Day: This is now Sunderland residents can see top films for £3 this weekend.

How Sunderland cinema-goers can see top films for £3 this weekend

Cheapest Dr Strange 2 tickets revealed

Join us as we journey back to a bygone Wearside era. See if you can spot someone you know.

Setting the scene for your 1976 memories

Join us as we travel back four decades. See if you can spot someone you know.

Yes it was 40 years ago!

The Mecca Bingo hall, as it is today, and the Odeon cinema back in the day.

The history of Sunderland's Art Deco Holmeside Cinema

How many of these Sunderland sights do you recognise?

11 rare photos of famous Sunderland sights pictured in 1950s and 1960s

The news comes after fellow chains Cineworld and Odeon also announced closures (Photo: Alex Davidson/Getty Images)

A quarter of Vue cinemas will shut for three days every week - the full list of ...

30 of Odeon's 120 cinemas will shut between Monday and Thursday (Photo: Shutterstock)

A quarter of Odeon cinemas will now only open at weekends

Watch out for Joseph's on the video from Keith Liddle and his brother Joe.

Sunderland’s shops in 1983

The government website clarifies that cinemas, along with other leisure businesses can only reopen, “if they can do so safely”. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Here’s what it will be like when cinemas reopen - and the new safety rules

Arguably the biggest cinema release in July is the 10th anniversary re-release of Inception (Photo: Warner Bros.)

These are all the films you’ll be able to see when cinemas reopen in July

Cinemas across the UK are temporarily closing down due to coronavirus

The Gala Theatre in Durham

Cinema screens face closure after heavy competition

Which films do you remember watching at the Cannon?

Lights, camera, retro action!

How about a look round the open-air market. It opened in 1984 it looks like it was a hit from the start. Remember this?

Spending a Saturday in 1980s Sunderland

Bill shared some wonderful images of an era gone by in Sunderland cinemas.

Organ music, cinemas smelling of roses, usherettes and page boys - memories of S...

An image of what the food hall at The Riverwalk complex could look like.

Pizza restaurant and Irish bar confirm plans to launch new businesses alongside ...

Queues outside the Cannon to see one of the top films of the summer of 1989 - Batman, featuring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson.

Trip down memory lane takes us back to Sunderland's long-gone cinemas

David Lobban, who will be the guest organist at Sunderland Theatre Organ Preservation Society, Ryhope.

Silksworth and Ryhope - Down Your Way

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