Manly Wharf Hotel to Transform into Mini Seaside Cinema

Both Mondays and the winter season have a pretty iffy rep; constantly scorned for following sunnier, happier, seemingly more leisurely times. But wintry Mondays are about to become something to look forward to; with one Sydney establishment taking it upon themselves to sweeten the start-of-week deal with a good ol' fashioned free movie night. Manly Wharf Hotel is transforming their main bar into a mini seaside cinema every Monday night from tonight until September.

Locked in for Monday nights from June 1 to September 29, Manly Wharf Hotel's new weekly Monday Night Movies series combines bean bags, $10 movie meals and plenty of popcorn with one pretty excellent film program running on the hotel's two-metre TV — we're talking cult favourites, sleepover classics and a few 'movies you should have seen by now'. Kicking off with perfect seaside film Jaws on June 1, the lineup includes surf classic Big Wednesday, White Russian-accompaniment The Big Lebowski, immortal tearjerker The Notebook, George Miller's original Mad Max, Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs and plenty more.

It's a pretty cheap and easy way to start your week off on an effortlessly good note, with the Wharf Hotel kitchen cranking out a $10 movie menu just for Monday nights — think pub classics like barbecue chicken or Margherita pizzas, veggie, beef and chicken burgers. Or you could pop into the Burger Liquor Lobster pop-up and nab a cheeky lobster roll. There'll be $10 Tooheys New and Hahn Super Dry jugs and $10 weekly cocktails — also in jugs. Best bit? You can order from your bean bag; the MWH staff will be running a Gold Class-like in-seat service (without the Gold Class price tag).

MANLY WHARF HOTEL MONDAY NIGHT MOVIES PROGRAM:

Monday June 1                                 Jaws

Monday June 8                                 Big Wednesday

Monday June 15                               Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Monday June 22                               The Wolf of Wall Street

Monday June 29                               The Big Lebowski

Monday July 6                                   Pulp Fiction

Monday July 13                                 The Notebook

Monday July 20                                 Ocean’s Eleven

Monday July 27                                 Thelma and Louise

Monday 3 August                            The Blues Brothers

Monday 10 August                          Reservoir Dogs

Monday 17 August                          Legend of Ron Burgundy

Monday 31 August                          Wayne’s World

Monday 7 September                    Fight Club

Monday 14 September                 The Hangover

Monday 21 September                 Mad Max

Monday 28 September                 Silence of the Lambs