THE STRANGE UNIVERSE TINY FILM FESTIVAL. The SU whanau have teamed up with The Hollywood to throw a tiny film festival. Each of us (Reuben Bonner and Cuillin Hearty of Banished Music, and Matthew Crawley of Strange News) has picked our favourite film, and we’ve asked Billie from Hollywood Avondale to pick hers too. This week it's Cuillin's choice. "It’s probably cliché that a music person's favourite film is about rock’n’roll and being on tour, but Almost Famous is just so damn good and never gets old." - Cuillin (Banished) Rolling Stone Magazine unwittingly hires a 15 year old aspiring journalist after reading an article he wrote for Cream Magazine. ALMOST FAMOUS is the hilarious and touching story of this intelligent young man's journey into the world of Rock-and-Roll as he tours with "Stillwater", an up-and-coming band struggling with their rise to fame. COME EARLY! Doors 6:30pm, pre-show 7pm

The rivalry is coming to the big screen! Experience the global sensation HEATED RIVALRY like never before with a special Season 1 cinema marathon! Stay tuned for more exciting details to be revealed along the way. Relive every episode of the hit romantic drama in one epic big-screen event, with an intermission between Episodes 3 and 4. Return to the cottage, revisit your favourite moments and celebrate the show’s irresistible romance, electric chemistry and queer joy alongside fellow fans. Created by Jacob Tierney and based on Rachel Reid’s bestselling novels, HEATED RIVALRY follows Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie), two rival professional ice hockey superstars whose fierce competition conceals an undeniable attraction. What begins as a secret fling between two rookies evolves into an eight-year journey of passion, rivalry and self-discovery. As their careers soar, Shane and Ilya must navigate the tension between the sport they live for and the love they can no longer ignore. 3pm - Doors open 3:50pm - Moderator Intro 4pm - Episode 1 - 3 6:30pm - Dinner Break 7:15pm - Moderator 7:30pm - Episodes 4 - 6 10pm - End ARRIVE ON TIME FOR YOUR FAVOURITE SPOT! IT IS NOT ALLOCATED. Buy a regular cinema seat or BYO Bean Bag Spot *We don't have any bean bags - you must bring your own....Single size bean bags ONLY - no lilo's, mattress's, chairs etc.

Party with us and feel like you were really there! Enjoy the film loud and lavish like NEVER before powered by 'HOLLYWOOD SUPER SOUND' concert PA audio. Put on your dancing shoes and let's go back to the 80s! Considered by critics as the greatest concert film of all time. Stop Making Sense (4K Restoration) stars core band members David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison along with Bernie Worrell, Alex Weir, Steve Scales, Lynn Mabry and Edna Holt. The live performance was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theatre in December of 1983 and features Talking Heads' most memorable songs. Pre-drinks 6.30pm Pre-show 7.30pm Feature starts at 8.00pm Choose your preferred ticketing option - SEATED in upstairs circle or DANCE FLOOR downstairs *only at The Hollywood! Get 10 tickets for the price of 8 when you make a GA Dance Floor group booking for 10... This is the PERFECT Christmas Party event for friends, family or work parties!

Each year we run a secret 24-hour movie marathon at the Hollywood Avondale where we show a mysterious line-up of films that run non-stop. You get a good bang for your bucks. We show 12-14 films each year. This is our 27th year. We have a dinner break and breakfast break.BYO $ for snacks / good coffee and yummy food we have on hand and support the candy bar. No hot food is allowed in the cinema. No annoying crinkly bags in the cinema. No yabbering during the films. No cellphone use during films. Doors Open : 2.30pm (BYO Beanbag ticket holders let in first - based on when tix were purchased - first to last). Marathon Starts Sharp : 3pm

THE STRANGE UNIVERSE TINY FILM FESTIVAL: Strange Universe have teamed up with The Hollywood to throw a tiny film festival. Each of us (Reuben Bonner and Cuillin Hearty of Banished Music, and Matthew Crawley of Strange News) has picked our favourite film, and we’ve asked Billie from Hollywood Avondale to pick hers too. This week it's Reuben's choice. "Critically unacclaimed, just like me!" - Reuben Poor Steve Kovacs (Matthew Broderick). His girlfriend rejected his marriage proposal; now he's gotta find a new apartment. His pal suggests slipping the cable guy a few bucks, so he can get some premium channels for free. This simple ethical lapse has opens the door to the most intense relationship of Steve's life: an irrevocable and all-consuming bond with his cable guy (Jim Carrey). Originally conceived as a straight-forward buddy comedy, it turned into the darkest comedy. A seminal film… for the striking new tone it helped to establish, The Cable Guy is the closest we could ever get to seeing Jerry Lewis star in a Alfred Hitchcock movie. Look out for Owen Wilson’s hysterical cameo. Directed by Ben Stiller.

Strange Universe is bringing Suzanne Ciani to the Hollywood on November 25th, we’re showing the hilarious and unpredictable John Wilson film The History Of Concrete, with a soundtrack by Ciani herself! Probably the only documentary to ever draw thematic connections between Hallmark Christmas movies, affordable housing in New York City, and tattoo preservation after death, The History Of Concrete plays like a welcome continuation of John Wilson’s delightfully peculiar HBO series How To With John Wilson. As with that Emmy-nominated show, Wilson here becomes interested in a seemingly rudimentary topic but then plunges down diverse rabbit holes, finding unlikely through-lines that eventually develop into something far more grand and strange. Though ostensibly a comedy that spotlights the bizarreness of ordinary people, the documentary is never snide. Wilson finds himself hanging out on a low-budget film shoot, talking to an ageing singer whose neighbourhood is being affected by pollution, or filming a unique 3100-mile race that takes place on only one city block, and always approaches these different worlds with curiosity. As a result, the people Wilson meets open him up to new ways of thinking, and the longer he spends with them, the richer the conversations become. COME EARLY! Doors 6:30pm pre-show, 7pm

THE STRANGE UNIVERSE TINY FILM FESTIVAL: Strange Universe have teamed up with The Hollywood to throw a tiny film festival. Each of us (Reuben Bonner and Cuillin Hearty of Banished Music, and Matthew Crawley of Strange News) has picked our favourite film, and we’ve asked Billie from Hollywood Avondale to pick hers too. This week it's Billie's choice. "Based on the book written by 17 year old S.E. Hinton. A sincere and nearly perfectly realised film about adolescence and the magic of friendship. "Stay gold, Ponyboy, Stay gold"." - Billie Starring Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Diane Lane, Ralph Macchio, C. Thomas Howell. The Outsiders is Francis Coppola’s take on SE Hinton’s 1967 novel, and it’s one of his best. The Outsiders, and its companion film, Rumble Fish (both made back to back and released in 1983, four years after Apocalypse Now) are essential viewing. It’s surprising that The Outsiders isn’t better known, given that it’s credited as the film that brought together the Brat Pack, and provided the inspiration for several songs (Stay Gold, Ponyboy, by The Get Up Kids, being the best one). The story of how The Outsiders came about is very sweet: Coppola received a letter from a teacher and her class explaining that it was their favourite book, and they would like to see it made into a film. Coppola was so touched that he read the book and created the film. The Outsiders (adapted from SE Hinton's novel) are looking for a better world. The street life of teenage Tulsa is divided into the 'socs' who go to college and wear Brut, and the greasers from the other side of the tracks, who don't. When a soc is knifed, three greasers go on the run to a rural idyll, turn tragic heroes, and finally return to try to cement a tenuous truce: like so much teenage Americana, it's about the rites of passage from adolescence to adulthood. Coppola has given the film a fullness that makes it feel freshly minted. Ponyboy, quoting Robert Frost’s poem about how nothing gold (meaning youth) ever lasts, is set against an impossibly golden sunset that always threw us, as did much of the florid dialogue. The film being seen through Ponyboy, a wanna-be writer with an intense love for reading Gone With the Wind. Coppola has directed the film as Ponyboy would have done it. That clarity results in a movie that will stay gold. COME EARLY! Doors 6:30pm, pre-show 7pm

Rocky Horror “the longest running movie in history” became a sanctuary for people who saw themselves as outsiders, especially queer and gender-nonconforming people. It now unites everyone. No longer mere movie-goers, they became a tribe and kept coming back, week after week. Jan Grefstad made The Hollywood Rocky Horror’s rightful NZ home, the first to screen it as a midnight movie that ran from 1978 to 1988. Come back to it's home at The Hollywood - get dressed up and ready to dance, but please leave the rice at home! COME EARLY! Doors 7pm, pre-show 7:30pm

THE STRANGE UNIVERSE TINY FILM FESTIVAL: Strange Universe have teamed up with The Hollywood to throw a tiny film festival. Each of us (Reuben Bonner and Cuillin Hearty of Banished Music, and Matthew Crawley of Strange News) has picked our favourite film, and we’ve asked Billie from Hollywood Avondale to pick hers too. This week it's Matthews choice. "This Weird Al Yankovic movie is the greatest of all time. Fight me!" - Matthew Fact: In the last several decades of our cultural history, no one has provided more laughter and sheer, unbridled fun than "Weird Al" Yankovic. Al's humble beginnings as a brilliant song parodist have led to platinum albums, three Grammy Awards, countless international tours and media appearances, and – last but not least – the most hilarious movie to ever bust mankind's collective gut: UHF! In 1989, funny bones were splintered by the millions in this insane cinematic assault on TV and everything else, starring Al as a hard-luck entertainment warrior taking on an evil corporate overlord! Along for the ride is a spazztacular assortment of '80s/'90s comedy luminaries, taking uproarious swipes at everything from RAMBO to GANDHI! It's the only movie that will make you laugh until your skull falls off. COME EARLY! Doors 6:30pm, pre-show 7pm

Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss. From boundary-pushing directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim comes You Can See Everything. COME EARLY! Doors 2pm, pre-show 2:30pm

Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss. From boundary-pushing directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim comes You Can See Everything. COME EARLY! Doors 5:30pm, pre-show 6pm