It was Cushla’s birthday on Wednesday, so we took the day off and went to the movies. This time it was at the Metropolis Cinema’s unusual “Screening Room”. The Metropolis itself is a small theatre crammed into some unused space in the corner of the town hall. It’s screening room is an even smaller theatre crammed into an unused corner of the Metropolis. In fact it is a converted stair-well. It is four seats wide with two rows making seven seats (there is a gap in the front row to get to the second row). The seats themselves are up on what was the landing with the screen down the steps on the landing below. Quite a neat little theatre, pity about the movie (Dalkeith, good characters, but a shallow and predictable plot, I’d hoped that Australian film makers had got over that sort of thing in the eighties).