20th Century Flicks, Bristol

A landmark in the history of the cinema. The rise and fall of a newspaper tycoon driven by a childhood obssession - Randolph Hurst tried to have it banned! Unique in technique and narrative structure, if you only ever watch one 1940's movie this should be it. This edition is from a restored, remastered and generally souped-up print, with a heap of extras including a documentary on the wunderkind Welles and an analysis by, ahem, Barry Norman. find out more...

GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK (2005)

CertificationPG Our Rating

Goodnight And Good Luck takes place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950s America, chronicling the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy, head of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Murrow, his news team and, indeed, CBS itself made a defiant and impassioned stand against McCarthy's increasingly delusional, corrupt and fear-fueled rants and this, George Clooney's second turn in the director's chair, is a beautifully suc find out more...

IN THE LOOP (2009)

Certification15 Our Rating

For those of you not in the know this is a brilliant satire on a bunch of totally cynical New Labour twats, incompetent elected officials and a bunch of muddling bureaucrats. Capaldi is superb, as the PM's foul mouthed attack dog enforcer (Alistair Campbell), as our politicians conspire with both hawks and doves in Washington in the fumbling build-up to a major war to grab oil in the Middle East. find out more...

JINDABYNE (2007)

Certification12 Our Rating

The discovery of a dead body by four small town Australian males on a camping and fishing expedition, and their failure to abort their trip to report it, provides the catalyst to push the entire community closer to the edge of implosion. The nuclear family, and race relations, seem as dissonant here, if not more so, than anywhere else. Top quality movie making and very thought provoking. find out more...

MORNING GLORY (2010)

Certification12 Our Rating

McAdams plays an ambitious but emotionally inept TV producer who, determined to turn around a sinking morning TV news show, blackmails a curmudgeonly, but highly plaudited, war journalist to co-present with the iconic and long-standing female anchor in a relationship that proves, at best, deeply volatile.
'Morning Glory' ambles from light weight media satire to unlikely romantic comedy, but, though generic, it does supply us with the most likeable on screen presence by Harrison Ford for a find out more...

REDS (1982)

Certification15 Our Rating

The film is based on the life of John Reed, the Communist, journalist, and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book Ten Days that Shook the World. The film works both as a history of the American left and as an epic romance, between Reed and Louise Bryant, an important feminist and radical journalist in her own right. After involvement with labour and political disputes in the US, they go to Russia in time for the 1917 October Revolution and, inspired, return to the US, hoping to find out more...

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (2008)

Certification12 Our Rating

A young lad, Jamal, from the slums of Mumbai gets to play as a contestant on the Indian version of 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' and, much to the increasing horror of the organisers, looks likely to win the grand prize, there's only one answer: arrest him and find out how he's cheating. It is while under interrogation that we discover how all the trials and tribulations of the young man's life have contributed to his knowledge and the real reason why he entered the game show. 'Slumdog Million find out more...

STATE OF PLAY (2009)

Certification15 Our Rating

A small time thief is shot dead, an unfortunate passer by critically wounded and a Congressman's assistant falls to her death on the subway - seemingly unrelated events, but dogged journo Cal smells a conspiracy and, with his past connections to the politician in question, he starts sniffing around, eventually uncovering a world of plots, assassinations and political intrigue. find out more...

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STATE OF PLAY: SERIES 1, DISC 1 (BBC) (2003)

Certification15 Our Rating

State of Play is a classic conspiracy thriller that promotes the belief that New Labour has betrayed the longing for a new ethical politics, replacing the sleaze scandals of the Major years with more of the same. The script, the dialogue and the acting are all top drawer in this gripping, pacey, multi-layered tale of ambitious and talented young men tragically failing. find out more...

STRANGER THAN FICTION (2006)

Certification12 Our Rating

Harold Crick is a lonely, anal and routine bound tax man, but gee, when it rains for Harold it sure does pour. First he becomes smitten with one of his reluctant clients and then he discovers that he's a fictional character, in reclusive author Karen Eiffel's new novel, and she's struggling to find a satisfactory way to kill him off. Harold's going to have to get seriously proactive, like getting a life, rescue it from tragedy, then find the author and plead his case pretty damn quick or else al find out more...