20th Century Flicks, Bristol

In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife - and more talk when he decides to take her back. By this time he has been drawn to Pauline, niece of a Cognac distiller, and this precipitates him divorcing his wife, settling on her and his daughter the shares he owns in his family's porcelain factory. He resi find out more...

LONGTIME COMPANION (1990)

Certification15 Our Rating

This story begins on the day that the New York Times first reported the outbreak of Aids, and centres on a small group of friends whose lives will never be the same again. A film about life, love, suffering and survival, and winner of the 1990 Audience Award at the US Film Festival. find out more...

LOST SEASON THREE DISC 5 (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

17. Catch-22; Desmond's latest fragmented vision suggests that his old girlfriend, Penny, will crash-land onto the island. He organizes a posse of himself, Hurley, Jin and Charlie to come along with him into the jungle expecting Penny to parachute onto the island, but the vision also suggests that Charlie will die if he goes with them, but Desmond insists that Charlie must come along to make the vision come true. Desmond recalls his days in a monastery in Scottland over 10 years earlier. In the find out more...

PROJECT ALMANAC (2014)

Certification12 Our Rating

Taking its cue from Chronicle (2012), Project Almanac is part of the "found footage" sci-fi phenomenon sweeping contemporary teen cinema. A group of friends discover time travel and use it to have a lot of fun; rewriting their entry into the high school popularity charts, partying without wasting time, acing tests and getting even with bullies. But, as science would have it, every action has its equal and opposite reaction. Soon the 'jumps' become a desperate attempt to rewrite the rewrite. G find out more...

SUITS SEASON 3 (2013)

Certification15 Our Rating

This hit series stars Gabriel Macht as one of Manhattan's top corporate lawyers who sets out to recruit a new hotshot associate but winds up hiring the only guy that impresses him--a brilliant but unmotivated college dropout (Patrick J. Adams). Though he isn't actually a lawyer, this legal prodigy has the book smarts of a Harvard law grad and the street smarts of a hustler. However, in order to serve justice and save their jobs, both these unconventional thinkers mus find out more...

THE BURNING PLAIN (2008)

Certification15 Our Rating

A non-linear tale of troubled family relationships criss-crossing the Tex-Mex border; a seemingly happy family woman is having an illicit affair with a Mexican man, but her daughter is becoming suspicious, two teenagers start an affair heavily disapproved of by their respective families, a young motherless Mexican girl sees her father crash his crop dusting plane and a guilt ridden Portland restaurant manager struggles to retain relationships with men. The stories interconnect, in a not unobviou find out more...

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THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (2008)

Certification12 Our Rating

Born in New Orleans, abandoned and adopted on the day of the end of WWI, Benjamin Button is a medical mystery. Entering life as a physically old man, over the course of his remarkable existence he rejuvenates to infancy. He has a unique, poignant, but also joyous, perspective on the world around him. Very loosely adapted from F Scott Fitzgerald's excellent short story of the same title, 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' is a beautifully visualised and whimsical tale that drifts through the e find out more...

THE HUMAN STAIN (2003)

Certification18 Our Rating

Coleman Silk is a highly respected member of his immediate society, a professor of Classics at the local college he would seem to be a man of unblemished repute, but Coleman has a secret nearly half a century old, and should it resurface it will destroy him. The Human Stain is a dark, brooding thriller, with a superlative cast. find out more...

THE NAMESAKE (2006)

Certification12 Our Rating

Gogol is a very strange name and somewhat of an embarrassment, as are his parents with their strange sub-continental ways, to a first generation Bengali American, but it is a name that will have relevance to his struggle to forge a personal identity. This charming film spans over three decades from the first fumbles of a successful arranged middle-class Calcutta marriage, through pain and gain, to a slow integration into an American immigrant identity. Not quite an epic, but a heart-warming tale find out more...

THE PARADE (2011)

Certification15 Our Rating

A homophobic, middle-aged, Serbian gangster ends up sacrificing himself to protect Gay freedom in his country.

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