firstmovies.com

I became a member of firstmovies.com in July 2000 when the site did offer an extremely good service; there was many preview screenings countrywide with at least one a month and the likelihood of receiving tickets was exceptionally high too. However within the last 12 months the bottom has seemed to have dropped out of this site, offering fewer showing in fewer places, mainly major cities, the likelihood of scoring tickets has dramatically decreased, and they only seem to collaborate with Stella Artois. Competitions are still a regular weekly occurance but the weekly e-mail which was like clockwise, delivered to your inbox every thursday night can ...

Last year I made a bit of a sad New Year's resolution, which was to visit as many freebie sites as possible in order to get as much free stuff as I could. I made a note of everything I applied for and ticked it off when I got it (look - I DID tell you I was sad!). Twelve months down the line and my book is a very tragic sight, pages and pages of offers applied for but a noteable absence of ticks, sigh, all those promised goodies that never arrived. But there is one site that has faithfully delivered time after time and whose emails in my inbox give me a shiver of anticipation, and that is Firstmovies.com. This site offers free preview tickets ...

Being a movie buff, I was naturally intrigued about this site, especially as the prices of cinema tickets are constantly on the up. I was a little dubious at first thinking there had to be a catch, but as I tried it out I was surprised. All you need to do is fill out a membership form (free and very easy to do) and away you go. You are regularly updated via email as to what movies are going to be released and to which movies are going to have reviews. I have so far had free tickets to Toy Story 2, The Insider and Beautiful Creatures, Cats and Dogs & Amelie. From here all you have to do is request the tickets on the website choose which cinema you want to see ...