We’re thrilled to announce that a new bar and café called Overlook has opened adjacent to the Astor Theatre. Inhabiting a space vacated recently by a launderette, Overlook takes its name from the iconic Overlook hotel featured in Stephen King’s 1977 novel, The Shining.  Visually brought to life in the 1980 film adaption by master […]

Last week, we had the utmost pleasure of welcoming the inimitable Bill Nighy to the Astor Theatre for an in-depth conversation with journalist Philippa Hawker discussing his most recent release, THEIR FINEST, his illustrious career, and Bob Dylan’s harmonica. Below is an excerpt of their lively conversation: … PH: THEIR FINEST is about a film […]

The BBC First British Film Festival, now in the fourth year, has grown from strength-to-strength and almost doubled in size from its original incarnation.  We sat down with the festival’s programming Manager, Kim Petalas, to talk about the best of British Cinema and of this year’s festival.  BBC First British Film Festival runs across October […]

We are thrilled to announce that we will be opening a new cinema, Palace Central, in the multi-award winning development, Central Park Mall, in Sydney’s Chippendale. The new 14 screen complex on Level 3 of the centre will open in late 2017 and will also uphold the building’s ‘green’ ethos, utilising technology which will use […]

HE LOVES YOU (YEAH, YEAH, YEAH) Jeffrey Black is an avid fan of ‘The Fab Four’ and has been since the day he walked into Palings record store in Queen Street (Brisbane) and bought a copy of ‘Paperback Writer’ in 1966. With the release of Ron Howard’s film ‘The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – […]

There’s nothing  hotter than Patsy and Eddy right now, except a cinema full of them! Fans at premiere screenings across the country for Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, were lucky enough to enjoy seeing Patsy Stone and Eddiena Monsoon (aka Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders) live in person on the gold carpet! Oozing glitz, glamour, (and names, names, names, sweetie!) […]

Cine Latino is the first national program of cinema from a region that is home to more than 600 million people across 20 countries. We sat down with program coordinator Alex Castro to talk about this new festival. Why now for a Latin American Film Festival? We’ve always seen great Spanish-language cinema from Latin America […]

Last week, we had the utmost pleasure of hosting guests of this year’s Volvo Scandinavian Film Festival, brothers, Jakob and Jonas Oftebro. With each starring in festival highlights, GOLD COAST and AS IT IS IN HEAVEN 2: HEAVEN ON EARTH and THE WAVE respectively, the brothers spent time in Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne enjoying the […]

Fitting it was, that Palace Barracks Cinema hosted the recent Queensland Premiere of Ivan Sen’s GOLDSTONE; when Sen introduced the film to a sold-out crowd he revealed he had written much of the screenplay in the Palace Barracks café. While introducing the Queensland Premiere, Brisbane-based Sen indicated he had written many pivotal scenes for the […]

The Palace Cinemas team is incredibly proud to launch our new website and, herewith, our first blog post. We set out with this project with a very clear objective: to make the site easier to navigate and ever-easier on the eye.  We hope that you will take the time to have a look around, explore […]