[5] The renovations included luxury features, such as an attached restaurant, bar, and table service to the premium patrons in the balcony.

It showed erotic films in the 1980s that Taylor described as so mild they could be shown on broadcast television today.

In a profile celebrating its re-opening, Toronto Star movie critic Peter Howell wrote that Tawse was motivated to restore it by his love of a cinema of similar vintage, where his mother worked when he was a child.

[6] Tawse's renovations also included turning the small Italian grocery store next door into a restaurant, and adding a second storey to hold a bar - both to open in 2020.

On December 5, 2019, the night of the re-opening, the theatre hosted an instance of the Basement Revue, an ongoing series of live performances.