20th Century Flicks, Bristol

This lavishly photographed and costumed action-drama-epic sticks to what we know of Genghis's early years, although that's not much, telling the story of how a young tribal boy overcame many obstacles, including slavery, to become a legendary conqueror. The widescreen suits this 'big sky' country and there is something remarkably authentic about the yurts and the costumes. Chosen for marriage, at the age of nine, by a female child, Borte, while he thinks he's doing the chosing, she becomes one o find out more...

RABBIT PROOF FENCE (2002)

CertificationPG Our Rating

Australia's dark secret of institutionalist eugenics gets an impressive and heartfelt celluloid airing in this adaptation of Doris Pilkington Garimara's book, a story based around the astonishing real life journey of three young girls, removed from their true Aboriginal families and transplanted to a boarding school/prison to be trained as domestic servants (from whence it was hoped they would quietly blend into white society), and their 1,500 mile trek home with only a rabbit proof fence to gui find out more...

RAPT (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

A stinking rich businessman is kidnapped by a highly proficient and ruthless gang for a 50 million Euro ransom. Away from his terrified isolation he becomes side-lined and alienated from his social base; the media alienate his wife and family from him by having a field day with his decadent life style, his business colleagues jostle for power and the police only care about catching the criminals, not saving his life.
This is a fine state of the nation thriller. find out more...

RENDITION (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an American citizen who never arrives home to his pregnant wife, Isabella, after a business trip to South Africa. While Isabella struggles desperately to find out what has happened, we discover before her that Anwar, an Egyptian born chemical engineer, has been taken by the CIA to an unknown destination outside of the USA under suspicion of terrorism. CIA analyst Doug Freeman begins to question not only his patriotic ideals but the ethics of those he has sworn to serve, when find out more...

SUZHOU RIVER (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

Our narrator is an unseen local videographer, who tells the story of star-crossed lovers Mardar and Moudan. Mardar is a motorcycle courier in Shanghai who meets and falls in love with Moudan, but when he becomes involved in a plot to kidnap and hold her for ransom, Moudan is heartbroken. Devastated by his betrayal she throws herself into the Suzhou River, apparently to her death, threatening only to come back and haunt him. Mardar vows to find her and soon becomes obsessed with a nightclub dance find out more...

SWIMMING WITH SHARKS (1996)

Certification15 Our Rating

Satirical tale of a Hollywood worm who turns. When naive film school graduate Guy lands a job with the most loathsome movie mogul on the face of the earth, his dreams seem to lie in tatters. But when his pondlife boss nicks his ideas and his girl, Guy takes a terrible revenge. Excruciatingly funny. find out more...

THE BACKWOODS (2008)

Certification18 Our Rating

It's city kids in the country time again, this time two couples in rural Spain in the 1970s with weirdo inbreeding locals hunting and grunting round their rustic retreat. A tense and pacey movie, I loved it. find out more...

THE BOW (2005)

Certification15 Our Rating

An old man and a beautiful young girl live on a boat, which they never leave. Groups of men come out to fish, have their fortune told, in an extraordinary manner involving the bow of the title, and mutter about the pair's relationship. This is an art movie, beautifully made and very surreal. find out more...

THE CHASER (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

Unpleasant ex-cop Joong-ho Eom who works as a charmless pimp is severely troubled that his girls have started walking out on him, that is until he discovers that they all shared the same phone number for their last customer, so he starts to track the guy down. This horror-thriller is a film that, not unlike "Memories of Murder" in terms of plot direction and mood, takes convention and turns it inside out. Exploitative yes, violent yes, funny sometimes, art house no, original and entertaining, ve find out more...

THE CHUMSCRUBBER (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

Dean Stiffle lives in the mundanely surreal world that is upper-middle-class American suburbia, and, while his cynicism remains alive and kicking, he is slipping into the listless complacency of his adult peers. It is only the death of his friend, the neighbourhood's local supplier, that forces Dean out of his apathy. Now, under some serious pressure from the dealers at school, Stiffle Jr is about to embark on a reluctant adventure. 'Chumscrubber' is a witty, good naturedly satirical slice of Am find out more...