20th Century Flicks, Bristol

Set during the 1930's on the Amalfi coast, a chosen summer haunt for the rich and the beautiful, rarely is the air not thick with gossip, but on this occasion Robert Windemere and his beautiful young wife are the focus of discussion. Rumour has it Robert provides an allowance Mrs Erlynne, a woman with a reputation to be well avoided, while his wife is not as dismissive of other men's attentions as it is felt she ought. Adapted from Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's fan, A Good Woman is a lushly vi find out more...

ANGEL-A (2006)

Certification15 Our Rating

A supernatural, fantastical tale of love found in the sleezy and glitzy streets of central Paris. 'Angel�A' is quintessential Luc Besson, ie little in the way of story, but my, the cinematography from Thierry Arbogast does look absolutely stunning. find out more...

ARMAGEDDON (1998)

Certification12 Our Rating

Big, big-budget blockbuster with Bruce Willis as the man signed up to save the world. A huge special effect, sorry - asteroid, "the size of Texas" is heading for Earth, but hey, there's no need to get all serious about it. With eighteen days to go before armageddon, let's send in hotshot oil driller AJ (Brucie) and his twelve-strong team of wise-cracking, roughneck workmen, land them on the asteroid and let them plunge their big drills into unchartered geology, hopefully making a swift getaway b find out more...

BANDITS (2001)

Certification15 Our Rating

Joe and Terry have just made an opportunistic break from prison and decide to return to their day jobs...bank robbery. Terry is the brains who comes up with idea of kidnapping the bank manager at their home the night before the robbery, an idea that works perfectly thanks to the charismatic no-nonsense leadership of Joe. The two men begin to make a very successful reputation for themselves but when they both fall for Kate (and Kate falls for the both of them), the well-oiled machine takes a nose find out more...

BAREFOOT CONTESSA (1954)

CertificationPG Our Rating

Ava Gardner is superb in this glitzy Hollywood reprise of the Cinderella story. She is Maria, the Hollywood starlet who rises from poverty and spends all her time trying to deny and forget her past, much to her own unhappiness. Touching glamorous and superbly directed by Mankiewicz.

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BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986)

Certification15 Our Rating

Action fantasy tale about a wise-cracking trucker who attempts to rescue his friend's fiance from a 2000 year-old magician who lives beneath San Francisco's Chinatown. He must battle demons, goblins and other terrors as he makes his way through the magician's dark domain. An excellent chop suey movie, very funny, highly entertaining and probably way ahead of it's time.

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CASABLANCA (1942)

CertificationPG Our Rating

Nothing more can be said about this classic melodrama from the peak of the Hollywood studio-film era. Hardened cynic Bogart softens when he meets old flame Bergman who is now a refugee in neutral wartime Casablanca. Together they outwit the Germans... and of course there's that famous song. Watch this classic or some day you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow... find out more...

DANGEROUS LIAISONS (1988)

Certification15 Our Rating

In a relentless battle of intrigue the Marquise and her ex-lover the Vicomte set up a web of seduction and counter-seduction to exercise their rivalry. Their obsessive powerplay inevitably creates both pleasure and pain. Well adapted and beautifully set and shot, this is absorbing and disturbing. find out more...

DON'T COME KNOCKING (2005)

Certification15 Our Rating

Sam Shepard stars as a jaded Hollywood star, Howard Spence, who walks out of his latest movie to visit his mother who he last saw 30 years before, but his visit brings back more than old memories when he is told that he has a son, the product of a brief affair he had had with a waitress. A sweet romantic drama from the guys that brought you the wonderful 'Paris, Texas' that manages to warm your heart without being over-sentimental. find out more...

EAGLE VS SHARK (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

While Lilly works her job at Meaty Boy Burgers she nurses an infatuation with customer Jarrod (Flight of the Conchords' Jemaine Clement), who blanks her until she manages to sneak into his Come As Your Favourite Animal Party, whips him at computer punch-up and a romance, of sorts, begins. Sadly, Jarrod's priorities are far from romantic; a face off with the class-mate who mercilessly bullied him back in his home town is all he cares about and, until he gets his man, Lilly knows she won't get her find out more...