I pride myself a little bit on my ability to navigate online queuing systems. If that sounds like quite a faint bit of self-praise, I'd remind you how often hot tickets require running that gauntlet. I didn't expect getting IMAX tickets to be my toughest challenge of 2026, but nabbing an IMAX 70mm for The Odyssey did prove pretty tricky.
After a lot of refreshes and a few false starts, though, I did eventually grab a booking at the BFI IMAX near Waterloo here in London, and saw the movie at last this week, after being forced to wait for a couple of weeks by the impossibility of getting earlier tickets.
