Recognise this place? This is the Rex Cinema at McKenzie Road. Today the cinema specialises in Tamil movies, but do you know it has a long history?

Rex Cinemas used to be at the cutting edge of cinema theatres, charging a premium for wide-screen projection and also a surround sound system that made you feel as if you were in the middle of the action. We take these cinema effects for granted now, but they were as cutting-edge then as 3-D movies are today. Join Thimbuktu as he reminisces about the old Rex cinema in his post here.