Return of the Cult

After a brief break in January, our monthly cult film night returns on February 17th with two cast-iron cult classics screening off both 35mm and digital, both of them coming from the mysterious world of the 1980s...

The first is Jim Henson's true masterpiece The Dark Crystal, a wondrous and technically astonishing f... read more

Parklife

We're currently reminding all of our wonderful Electric Cinema customers about a fantastic parking deal we have with the NCP Albany car park on St Jude's Passage.

Anyone who buys a ticket for a film at The Electric can park at the NCP Albany for just £2.30 between midday and midnight - every single day of the week! Y... read more

Banshees & Vampyrs

Following his sell-out performance last year, we're very pleased to be welcoming back Steven Severin on Sunday Feb 26th, when the former Siousxie & The Banshees member will be hosting another Music For Silents evening, performing a brand new live score to Vampyr, Carl Dreyer's classic piece of 1920s Gothic surrealism.... read more

Shock & Gore 2012 film-making competition

The Electric is proud to announce that we've just launched our first ever film-making competition, in association with the 2012 Shock & Gore festival. We're looking for both short and feature length films from the horror, sci-fi or fantasy genres - if it's weird, horrific or just plain insane, we want it all!

It does... read more

Sale of the century (well, 2011)

It's once again time to clear our cupboards as we hold another mammoth poster sale on Sunday December 11th at 11am, featuring stacks of glossy quad posters for a list of great movies from the last 12 months. 

The posters cover all kinds of films, from mainstream hits like the final Harry Potter and the new Twilight f... read more

End of an era

Thursday 10th November marks a historic day for The Electric Cinema, as we screen a weekly programme film on 35mm for the very last time.

The film industry is currently making a complete switchover to digital technology, meaning traditional 35mm film will become largely defunct. 'The consistency and availability of 3... read more

An afternoon of adventure

Strap on your hiking boots and prepare for some pulse-quickening action as we join forces with the Adventure Film Festival in November for an afternoon of fascinating short films about the world of outdoor adventure.

Starting at 2pm on Sunday November 13th, this special event features five short kinetic documentaries... read more

Car park deal for every Electric customer

We often get a lot of people asking where best to park in the city centre when they come to The Electric, which is why we've set up a partnership with the 24 hour NCP Albany car park (located on St Judes Passage - click here for a map) solely for our customers.

At any hour of the day or night, our customers can use t... read more

Anime Day

Anime fans will want to scribble down Saturday 26th November in their diaries, because that's the day we'll be having a pair of special screenings in association with Japanese animation maniacs We Love Anime.

Showing in the afternoon is a double bill of Mardock Scramble: The First Compression and Mardock Scramble: Th... read more

She's a poet and she knows it

It's no secret that we have some excellent regular customers here at The Electric (or Electrolytes, as we like to call them), and as proof, we present a poem specially written about The Electric after the author Saba Y-Zai came to see Midnight In Paris, which she e-mailed to us.

Saba runs a monthly poetry discussion ... read more

We need to talk about Kevin's prizes

Currently wowing audiences in screen 1 of The Electric is Lynne Ramsay's brilliant adaptation of the Lionel Schriver novel We Need To Talk About Kevin, and to mark the occasion, we've got some goodies to give away thanks to the lovely folk over at Artificial Eye.

If you fancy bagging yourself a copy of the original n... read more

Join The Conversation

So which is Francis Ford Coppola's best film? There's a lot to choose from, but one Film4 and many others (including a few here at The Electric) cite as his greatest work is The Conversation, starring Gene Hackman as an obsessive surveillance expert.

Finally remastered for Blu-Ray, The Conversation is a cast-iron cla... read more

Sing-Along-A-Wicker-Man

Why burn fireworks on Bonfire Night when you can burn a pagan straw effigy? Thanks to Sing-Along-A-Wicker-Man, you can do just that on Saturday November 5th, as pagans gather for a night of live music, sing-along fun and plenty of bottom-slapping.

Hosted by David Bramwell and Eliza Skelton, Sing-Along-A-Wicker-Man is... read more

Josie's coming a-Long

The always brilliant Josie Long is doing a very special live stand-up tour early next year, visiting venues she personally approved because she loves them so much - and The Electric Cinema is one of them!

As such, we'll be playing host to Josie's brand new show The Future Is Another Place on Saturday 21st January, a ... read more

Signed poster giveaway

One of our next Shock & Gore screenings takes place on Friday October 14th, when we'll be screening controversial Sundance hit The Woman, a brutal horror about a family who capture a feral woman (click here to book tickets).

Thanks to Revolver Entertainment, we've got three glossy posters of The Woman to give away wh... read more

A barrel of laughs

The Birmingham Comedy Festival returns to our fair city in October, and once again The Electric is playing host to some excellent live stand-up and unique comedy events. 

Well, knock me Sideways!

There's no better way to watch the Alexander Payne film Sideways than with a glass of wine in your hand - which is why we're holding two special evenings on Monday Oct 17th and Wednesday Oct 19th where you get to quaff a selection of classy Californian wines as the characters on screen quaff theirs!

Hosted by Ian Har... read more

Soul Food special

We've teamed up with the lovely people over at The Victoria pub on John Bright Street for a special offer that's available to all Electric customers as part of their unique Soul Food Project.

Anyone who comes to our box office to buy a cinema ticket can also get themselves a Soul Food voucher that entitles them to ei... read more

The future's bright

It's been a long time coming, but we can finally announce that as of Wed September 21st, we will be officially participating in the Orange Wednesdays scheme. That means anyone arriving at our box office no a Wednesday with a 241 text voucher from Orange will be able to purchase two standard tickets for the price of on... read more

Popping up around The Electric

There have been some strange goings-on during the last couple of months here at The Electric, but perhaps this is a mystery our Electrolytes can help us solve.

Someone has been leaving mysterious little figurines on our bar who sit on one penny pieces and clutch little signs declaring 'Say No To Popcorn' (see picture... read more