Pharaoh Cinema 4 — Local services in Independence

You can tell there's history in this theater. It left me feeling very nostalgic of movie experiences I had when I was younger. Unfortunately the nostalgia of an older theater setup was pretty disappointing compared to modern theaters. Let me start from the box office.

Cash is definitely the preferred method of payment. My time ordering tickets was maybe 4-5x longer than the folks with cash ahead of me. Printing a receipt took even longer. Tickets prices were higher than expected for adults and children.

Only 3 theaters were running, with only 2 movies playing. Not a big deal, but limits options.

At the concessions, anything hot is made on demand, with hot dogs, nachos, or pretzels being your options on top of the usual popcorn and soda. It was nice to have the option of them delivering the made-on-demand stuff directly to you in the theater, and all of the employees were nice and courteous the entire time we were there.

So far, all good. But then there's the seats. The seats weren't very comfortable, but not painful either. They are the old style "flip up" seats that hinge on the back. The arm rests are immobile and stiff. One of my children is very small for her age, and she could not sit comfortably because the chair would flip up unless she sat on the edge.

Overall I really like the small town feel, but it was tough to enjoy the movie with my kids and the lack of comfortable seating. Any AMC nearby provides nice seating at lower prices with better concessions (including alcohol).

I would recommend if you are already on independence square and want to catch a movie within...

I have fond memories of this theater in particular and I have watched many movies over the years. I like the old charm it has and I really want this place to stay open and thrive as long as it can. This review is solely on the basis of the experience we had this past weekend I was there with my family. We were there to watch 'Paddington' which is one of my favorite character and when I saw it was playing here, I had to watch it. My daughter is also a big fan of Paddington. We were the only people in the theater for this movie. Snow White was also playing at the same time which everyone else with their young children chose to watch 😄. The owner/manager forgot that we were in there waiting for the 7.10 pm show to start. My husband had to ask him about it as it was past the time, which was embarrassing. And later when was movie over, they forgot us again and did not open the doors like they did for the Snow white show. Not sure if it was pure accident or some other ulterior motives. But it was not a good experience. I hope to continue to go to this theater as I have my own reasons. But we are not sure anymore. How can they forget their customers and ignore us this way. 😕 BTW, the movie is amazing and must watch with family. Children will love it. Clean, simple, sweet, innocent and...

12-16-17 visit. $10 for an adult and $7 for a 5-year-old. The theater is on the square, and has a cool sign out front reminiscent of 1950's main street. Also, because it's a smaller cinema, it's not usually crowded. That's about all this theater has going for it. The seating is traditional, in that there's very little incline to the rows of seats. Hope you don't sit behind a group or one particularly tall person. Concessions are standard fair and they have a decent kids deal that includes a small popcorn, small drink, and small candy for about $6. The sound proofing needs serious work. I took my daughter to see Coco, but at times it was hard to hear our movie over the sound of Star Wars playing in the next auditorium. It should be noted that all of this could have been accepted if the admission price didn't reflect a higher quality theater. If you want to charge big league admission, you need to provide big league atmosphere. It'll be a hard decision to go...