Cinemas

This is a 1920s gem retaining all the old fashioned glamour of the art deco period in which it was built. The single screen cinema provides movie-goers with a cosy and intimate experience often lost in the larger multiplexes. Showing all the latest releases this is the perfect place to unwind in comfort and relive a bygone era where small local cinemas were the standard.

Walking in to this community cinema, run as a charity by volunteers, is like stepping back in time. From the old fashioned tickets at the single window box office to the refreshments displayed under the glass counter you are taken completely away from the glitz of the multiplex to an altogether more relaxed affair.

Spread over three floors and housing 18 screens this giant has everything a modern cinema can offer. All the new releases are there and they even have an Imax screen. For a more upmarket experience there’s an upstairs ‘gallery’ – a swanky cinema with comfier seating and its own bar, though at £16 a ticket (including refreshments) this is a pricier affair than the screens downstairs.

A modern cinema for the modern age, FACT shows a range of mainstream and more offbeat films in a contemporary setting, with the smallest of the screens containing sofas rather than traditional cinema seats. The building also has a bar, where you can buy drinks to take in to the screening, a café and an art gallery. A typically inclusive Liverpool outlook means you can choose between the likes of a foreign subtitled film or the latest blockbuster under the same roof.