showcase cinema, Cleveland

Always has lots of up to date films on. Really busy all the time. Have had a couple of problems but staff have sorted out straight away and put things right, can't complain at all. When I visit Boro this is where I will go!

Busy cinema complex as described by others. Prefer coming here for a good selection of current films with plenty of screening times to choose from.

Showcase Cinema is located at Teesside Retail Park it offers plenty of parking spaces so you will always find somewhere to park.

Showcase has about 14 screens 7 on the left side and 7 on the right. While your waiting for the movie to start you can go into the arcade but it’s only small in the Showcase. If you want to go to an arcade just go to Hollywood Bowl.

Refreshments in Showcase are very expensive which it’s always best to bring your own or go down to Morrison as it’s only down the road.

The seats in Showcase aren’t as comfortable as they used to be I find that I get a bit of pain from the seats. Showcase is a good cinema but it’s very expensive.

The cinema has easy access for people in wheelchairs there is a ramp for wheelchair users to be able to get up to the cinema and a door for easier access for them.

The cinema is located in a good place it has Pizza Hut, Burger King and Hollywood Bowl near by and further up is the shopping part.

This cinema hosts all popular current films, including preview screenings of very popular movies. There is plenty of FREE car parking outside the cinema, as well as quick and easy access to bus stops within a five minute walking distance. The cinema is placed on an out-of-town site and is surrounded by a range of restaurants, a good range of shops, and other amenities.
Service at the cinema is always excellent and there is a good range of sweets and drinks to buy. Excellent venue for birthday parties. Never had a bad visit.

The best time to go is a mild summer afternoon, so you can walk from Stockton High Street, down the old Stockton Road and over the viaduct (built by Peter Mandelson’s sinister Teesside Development Corporation think new Doctor Who baddies). The building is non-descript but when the light’s just right it seems ok, with the roar from the flyover to the right. The foyer is enormous and so is the popcorn!!
The screens vary in size, but it still feels a bit like you’re being herded in somewhere to die, because although the outside is curved, the corridors inside are straight lines (if i remember correctly). Every christmas for a few years we all had to go and watch the lord of the rings films here. Three hours of pure agony for different reasons.
Still, a good place to go if you’re a teenager in need of some physical abuse.

This is by far the best local cinema to Middlesbrough, being only a five-minute drive along the A66. There is always an abundance of free parking and I have never been yet and not been able to get tickets for the show that I have wanted. It is a multiplex with 14 cinema screens so there’s something for everyone and screening times run throughout the day and late into the night. The venue is always clean and tidy and extremely well organised – I have very rarely had to queue – even when it’s a premier. Seats are comfortable and temperatures are always comfortable. Highly recommended.

Convenient free parking is what draws me to visit showcase and the fact that I can pay for and print my own tickets at home before I go ( therefore avoiding standing in the sometimes tedious queues) via the cinemas own website. The cinema has a fantastic range of films on offer and always offer many showing times. Set on one level, you enter the main lobby where there are 2 ticket purchasing desks on each side. In there centre is the main “snack” centre which offers the usual popcorn, Nacho’s, packeted sweets , drinks slush etc. all for sale at extortionate prices and when considering the price for a ticket average around £6.00 depending if you are on a student rate, child or adult can be a costly night out. The screens then branch off to the left and right and you can find your screen via well positioned screens showing times and the side you need to go through.
Once attempting to find the seat you want do not be suprised if you need to move several times to find a seat which does not squeak, feel lumpy or tilt back too far. The seating is starting to show signs of being tired.
The cinema is usually at a comfortable temperature to view the film.The sound and picture quality has always been excellent although there are times that I have heard the sound from a neighbouring film.

Showcase Cinema is located at Teesside Park just off the A66. Tesside Park also has a retail area with many fantastic shops, and also has a 10 pin bowling alley next to the cinema, along with various restaurants, including Pizza Hut and Burger King. There is ample free parking, though i would recommend parking as close to where you want to be as possible later on an evening as this does seem to be a gathering place for boy racers, which can be a bit frightening for some people, although as far as I know they don’t do any harm, apart from being really annoying! The cinema itself is huge, with over 20 different screens showing all the latest films, and also participates in the orange wednesdays promotion. The refreshments available are ridiculously overpriced, we’ve always managed to sneak our own snacks and drinks in undetected! The seating is very comfortable, although as with most cinemas there isn’t much leg room, so if you are long in the leg I would recommend trying to get the seats at the very back as these have extra leg room, as well as being very handy for the toilets!

This is very handy to get to , although at christmas time , the shoppers can make christmas film watching more awkward.They should have their own roadsystem away from the shoppers going to Morrisons!
There is always the tope films there , though I find the place expensive, and the snacks they offer are extortionately priced, full of colours ( or certainly look as though they are)
they offer no healthy alternatives to coffee, cola, cheesse nanchos, aspartame filled sweets . Take note , we would buy the snacks if they were better for us and less expensive.

The seats are sooo comfortable though , so that is one good thing , though the queuing systems are odd to say the least.
The positioning of the desks is strange too, but I like the way you can prepay for tickets.

Situated in Teeside Retail park there is plenty of free parking. There is a great selection of films showing on the 20 screens. The seats are very comfortable and there are the usual snacks available.

This is a great cinema located on Teesside Retail Park. There is lots of free parking right outside. The place is clean and pleasant to be in, and they have lots of screens so plenty of films to choose from.

The food is way overpriced! They really fleece you on stuff like popcorn at about £3 a bag (and that’s a small bag)! Also, I often find it a bit cold inside while I’m watching the film, but apart from that it’s pretty good.

The advantages of this cinema is that it is really easy to get to. You can walk down from Thornaby along the cycle/footpath or walk over from Stockton. If you have a car its great as it is on the Teeside Retail park just off the A66 and has ample free parking. I have never had a problem getting parked even on Orange wednesday and Saturday nights unlike the Cineworld in Middlesbrough. As it has so many screens (23 I think) it always has films on longer so you don’t miss any you fancy.
Downsides are the seating is starting to show its age abit - the stadium seating isn’t as comfortable as the newer Cineworld. Also when coming out of the late night showings there are sometimes boy racers meetings at the outer edges of the car park so park as close to the cinema entrance as possible - I have never seen them do any damage but they are abit intimidating especially if you are going back to your car alone.

This cinema always seems slightly left out as opposed to the new UGC CINEWorld in Middlesbrough. I have to say it arks from early 90’s but the films are up to date and they staff very attentive. Comfortable seats and lots of room. Good parking and I would recommend it.

My husband and I have been to the Showcase several times. The last twice we went the queues were out of the door so we did not stop.

We llike to go to the showings last thing at night when it quieter the only problem with this is the toilets smell really bad. So I would recommend late showings as long as you don’t need the loo.

Showcase cinema is ideally located near the retail park and close to the bowling alley, restaurants and a bar and casino if you want to make an evening of it.

It always strikes me how well organised the Showcase is to say that there are so many screens. It does however get very busy on Orange Wednesdays so leave yourself with plenty of time.

There is a good selection of refreshments which have been recently updated. There are also the usual discounts for students, OAPS etc.

This is my favourite cinema in the area, as it is clean and very easy to get to right off the A66/A19 junction. There is ample parking, and you can go for a pizza first or bowling. The screens are always showing the latest films, although you do pay top price for this and could buy a couple of just released dvd’s for less than the price of 2 adult tickets and a tub of popcorn.

I took my kids here to see their first film a few years back, “The Magic Roundabout”. It seemed clean and tidy but the staff - especially the younger ones - were quite obnoxious. If i hadnt had my kids with me who loved it alot I’d definately have complained.
Ticket prices were a little bit more expensive than usual but on a Sunday afternoon I didn’t mind.
Probably wont go again as there’s a better cinema in Middlesbrough.

I went here when I went to visit my sister! We went for a movie (the golden compass) a while ago. They showed it on a really big screen, perhaps as we went on the day of its release! The tickets are pricey for a friday I wouldn’t have minded so much if the kids behind us would stop talking! and crying! overall its a good experience, there is a variety of snacks available so if you get peckish. They have ALL the films so theres nowhere else you need to look. I would recommend it!

Showcase cineama is located in Teeside park near Stockton, this cinema has roughly 23 screens with films showing various times through the day. All the screens are comfortable and hold roughly 150 peaple in each so there is usually spare seats dotted about (get there early and be sure to get seats!!). The cinema does get very busy at weekends though. There are the usual food and drink optios available.

Showcase Cinema is situated at Teesside Park so is close to a number of food and drink venues plus Hollywood Bowl so there is plenty to do!
It generally shows around 23 films at any one time so if your local cinema has stopped showing a film this is the place to go.
It is very comfortable and sells a wide selection of snacks and drinks.