EMPIRE BASILDON
Festival LeisurePark
Basildon
Essex
SS14 3WB
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Telephone: 08 714 714 714
Basildon Empire (formerly UCI) is situated close to the A127 in the Festival Leisure Park - approximately 1 mile north of Basildon town centre. It has a whopping 12 screens. Close by to the Basildon Empire are facilities for all the family including bowling (Hollywood Bowl) and family restaurants. Basildon Empire has excellent diabled facilities and can also stage conferences.
Films for the next 7 days
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
This latest addition to the 53-year-old sing-song franchise sees Dave (Jason Lee) and his six-pack of CGI’d rodents...
Carnage
Where the suburban sitcom flirts with Michael Haneke: this comic miniature sees Roman Polanski bring his knack for...
Chronicle
Here we go again with another ‘found footage’ film supposedly shot by amateurs: this time it’s schoolkids in Seattle with superpowers. There has been wild...
Gnomeo and Juliet
This is a very loose reading of the Bard’s tragic tale of family rivalry and amour fou, only this time peopled with 3D animated garden gnomes and crossed with an Liam Neeson’s unexpected but lucrative shift into marquee action-man territory has at best resulted in fun junk...
Happy Feet Two
George Miller’s latest Antarctic dance fest is a pale shadow of its exuberant predecessor. While ‘Happy...
Haywire
Only Steven Soderbergh could produce a slick, modern, cineliterate deconstruction of the Hollywood action caper...
Intruders
This supernatural thriller from Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (‘Intacto’, ‘28 Weeks...
Jack and Jill
Adam Sandler’s new comedy may be totally mediocre, but that’s still a big step up from the intensely...
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
More adventures for teen Jules Verne fan Sean (Josh Hutcherson) in this sequel to 2008’s ‘Journey...
Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
A kid-lit staple like Judy Moody was destined for the big screen, but this franchise kick-starter skews more toward the tween-TV side of things. Judy’s hyperactive imagination is...
Like Crazy
This transatlantic indie-romance charmed the socks off Sundance last year – sparking an all-night studio bidding war and catapulting its British star Brad Bird, director of ‘The Iron Giant’, ‘The Incredibles’ and...
A Monster in Paris
There’s much to praise in this bubbly, 3D fairytale from French animator Bibo Bergeron. Set on the streets of Paris in 1910, ‘A Monster in Paris’ borrows some...
Puss in Boots
Beautifully voiced by Antonio Banderas, Puss in Boots is to ‘Shrek’ what Jack Sparrow is to...
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
When Guy Ritchie’s witty, enjoyable reboot of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic detective stories busted blocks...
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 3D
‘The Phantom Menace’ is generally regarded as the nadir of the ‘Star Wars’ saga, and rightly so, with its dull narrative about trade and taxation, its spotty...
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Many questioned director Steven Spielberg and producer Peter JacksonMichel Hazanavicius and his star Jean Dujardin are...
The Descendants
Alexander Payne has shown in the likes of ‘Election’ (1999) and ‘About...
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Trespassing on 007’s territory, the opening-credits sequence to David Fincher’s ‘The Girl with the...
The Help
This is as brazen an Oscar-baiter as we’re likely to see this year: adapted from Kathryn Stockett’s bestseller about a group of black maids in early 1960s Mississippi publishing...
The Iron Lady
The calculation is fairly obvious: you’re doing a film about Margaret Thatcher, a huge figure, so you need an actress who can deliver on that scale. The imperious Kate...
War Horse
Steven Spielberg plunges us into an overlit, twee vision of early twentieth-century Devon at the start of...
Young Adult
Here’s a new comedy from Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody
