Is theoldcinema.co.uk safe?
http://theoldcinema.co.uk/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (60 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
The Old Cinema appears to be a long-established Chiswick antiques shop with no technical threats detected
theoldcinema.co.uk is the online shop of The Old Cinema, an antique and vintage store at 160 Chiswick High Road in London. The site says the business was established in 1978. The domain is about 26 years old. The site lists an email address on its own domain, a phone number and a postal address. Security checks found no threats. One third-party post disputes whether some items described as 'vintage' really are, and a review complains about delivery charges. Those points are worth weighing, but they do not outweigh the strong signs that this is a real, long-running business.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 86/100
Safe covers scores 85–100. 1 finding pulled the score down; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateOne customer complaint in public web research: "It is unethical to lie to people about items being ‘vintage' just to cheat them out of their hard earned money."
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe domain is over 26 years old.
- SupportsNo Safe Browsing warning was returned and the TLS connection is valid.
- SupportsThe site lists an email address on its own domain, a phone number and a postal address.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
theoldcinema.co.uk is the online shop of The Old Cinema, an antique and vintage store at 160 Chiswick High Road in London. The site says the business was established in 1978. The domain is about 26 years old. The site lists an email address on its own domain, a phone number and a postal address. Security checks found no threats. One third-party post disputes whether some items described as 'vintage' really are, and a review complains about delivery charges. Those points are worth weighing, but they do not outweigh the strong signs that this is a real, long-running business.
An established shop with a physical address
The site describes the business as a sole-trader family company located at the same address since 1978. The registrable domain is 9,683 days old, which fits a long-running business. Visitors can contact the shop at sales@theoldcinema.co.uk or by phone, and links to its social media accounts and WhatsApp are provided.
Shopping happens on the site itself: the cart and the 'Shop what's new' links stay on theoldcinema.co.uk, and no checkout on another domain was observed.
Technical checks are clean; customer feedback is mixed
The browser threat feed returned no warning, the connection is properly encrypted, and the hosting IP has no abuse reports.
One external post accuses the shop of labelling items as 'vintage' when they are not. An independent review platform's reviewer said they were charged for special delivery but the item was sent by a cheaper tracked service. These are individual complaints about descriptions and delivery costs, not evidence of fraud.
Why the score is 86
The saved checks and analysis found no material threat. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsSaved analysis from October 15, 2026 - stale
No detections across 60 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 33 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Clean
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiBusiness/Economy, Shopping
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerbusiness and economy
- Googleshopping
- Sophosonline shopping
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
THE OLD CINEMA LONDON
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
THE OLD CINEMA LONDON
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
The Old Cinema: London's antique & vintage department store
- Meta description
Shop antique, art deco, and midcentury furniture, lighting, gifts and art. Online and at our high street store in Chiswick, west London
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Terms/terms-and-conditionsRead
- Shipping policy/deliveryRead
- Contact page/contact/index/indexRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
The Old Cinema: London's antique & vintage department store
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 60 antivirus results.
What independent research found
2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The domain is over 26 years old.
- 02The site lists an email address on its own domain, a phone number and a postal address.
- 03One customer complaint in public web research: "It is unethical to lie to people about items being ‘vintage' just to cheat them out of their hard earned money."
Web research findings
Independent findings for theoldcinema.co.uk, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
- QLM.DIRECTopen
"It is unethical to lie to people about items being ‘vintage' just to cheat them out of their hard earned money."
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domaintheoldcinema.co.uk
- Redirects towww.theoldcinema.co.uk
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencestheoldcinema.b-cdn.net · googletagmanager.com
Domain Timeline
- Apr 12, 2000Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 26 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 16, 2026Saved security review — Rated Safe
This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.
theoldcinema.co.uk has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (sales@theoldcinema.co.uk).
- Phone number listed (+02089954166).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 23 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for theoldcinema.co.uk.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
Chat, reviews and email
- Mailchimp
- Trustpilot widget
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://theoldcinema.co.uk/
- 2200https://www.theoldcinema.co.uk/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
One customer complaint in public web research: "It is unethical to lie to people about items being ‘vintage' just to cheat them out of their hard earned money."
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Oct 15, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 16, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 16, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 16, 2026 |
| Independent research | 2 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Oct 16, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 15, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 16, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 16, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 16, 2026
- Independent research
- Result2 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 16, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
The Old Cinema appears to be a long-established Chiswick antiques shop with no technical threats detected
theoldcinema.co.uk is the online shop of The Old Cinema, an antique and vintage store at 160 Chiswick High Road in London. The site says the business was established in 1978. The domain is about 26 years old. The site lists an email address on its own domain, a phone number and a postal address. Security checks found no threats. One third-party post disputes whether some items described as 'vintage' really are, and a review complains about delivery charges. Those points are worth weighing, but they do not outweigh the strong signs that this is a real, long-running business.
09 · Community
Community
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