January 2010 Archives

Coming this week to Halton Green Screens monthly eco-film series at the Encore Cinema @ Oakville Mews:

Consuming Kids - the commercialization of childhood

Thursday, January 28, 2010  7pm

Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car.  Consuming Kids pushes back against the wholesale commercialization of childhood, raising urgent questions about the ethics of children's marketing and its impact on the health and well-being of kids.

For more information visit our website at www.HaltonGreenScreens.ca

THANKS FOR ALL THE INTEREST IN THIS POSITION - WE HAVE HIRED OUR NEW MANAGER. WELCOME ABOUT PAUL Thank you to everyone who applied, it was a very tough choice.

We need to reactivate our e-Bay store and to do that we need a creative, take charge person to help us manage it.  This is a part-time position working from the Oakville Mews Cinemas.

We are looking for a candidate with previous e-Bay selling experience who can perform in a "jack of all trades" role. The ideal candidate can work independently and must be comfortable with a computer, digital cameras and the internet. (Being able to assemble a box and pack it safely is another couple of good e-Bay skills too).

Again, the position is part-time and the work hours are flexible. The pay is $15/hour and the perks include free admission to both of our cinemas and all the popcorn you can eat.

E-mail jknoll@film.ca if you are interested. Send along your resume and/or your expression of interest including an explanation as to why you are the ideal candidate and a general guess as to how much popcorn you are going to consume.

Sorry folks, but costs are going up and just like we adjusted our Oakville Tueday pricing recently, we have to do the same for Burlington.

As of Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 our Tuesday pricing will increase to $3.50 from $2.50.  Still, the best deal in town!

For more details on why, read this blog post.

Encore was founded on the principle that you should be able to go to the movies without going broke. Recently, we have decided that our internal policy would be - we want to make it possible to go to the movies without going broke while not going broke ourselves!

Costs are increasing and we have kept our pricing low and absorbed most of the increased costs over the past few years. With rent increases as of January, another minimum wage increase this spring and the so called "business friendly... HA!" HST in the summer, we are now forced to look at ways to cut expenses and increase revenue.

For now, we are only going to adjust our Tuesday discount admission in Oakville from $4/seat to $5/seat effective January 5, 2010. Over the next few weeks, we will be looking at adjustments to our Burlington pricing as well. Even wth these increases, potential increases, we will continue to be the best deal in town and we will always stick to our first principle of making it possble to go to the movies without going broke.

Thank you for your patronage and support in 2009 - we look forward to entertaining you in 2010!