20th Century Flicks, Bristol

Episode 17: Cutbacks. Liz is willing to do anything to avoid cutbacks at T.G.S., while Jack is forced to fire his personal assistant and hire Kenneth as his part-time assistant.
Episode 18: Jackie Jormp-Jomp. Jack tries to turn an accidental obituary for Jenna into a marketing opportunity for her Janis Joplin-based biopic. Meanwhile Liz makes friends with a group of single women while away from work for sexual harassment.
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4 MONTHS 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

The friendship between two girls is tested to its absolute limits in this utterly compelling drama set in the twilight years of Communist-era Romania. Gabita, young, na�ve and pregnant, turns to her more pragmatic room mate Otilia for help and a meeting is arranged in a downtown hotel with a shady abortionist. Entering a dangerous and illegal underworld where the stakes are high and nothing is as it seems, the girls are set for a life-changing experience that neither will ever forget. "4 months, find out more...

50/50 (2011)

Certification12 Our Rating

Lucy Fife Donaldson says: "Inspired by writer Will Reiser’s ownexperiences of being diagnosed with cancer, the film follows Adam’s (JosephGordon-Levitt) schwannoma neurofibrosarcoma diagnosis which leaves him a 50/50chance of survival and his subsequent dealings with chemotherapy and therapy.Seth Rogen is Adam’s best friend Kyle, who helps (and hinders) his progress.Gordon-Levitt is as watchable as ever, and he and Rogen have good chemistry.However, despite such promise I di find out more...

A CHRISTMAS TALE (2009)

Certification15 Our Rating

It's not seasonal goodwill that's brought the family of Vuillard together in the northwestern French town of Roubaix; matriarch Junon needs a favour, she's suffering from a genetic marrow disorder and needs one of her adult children to donate theirs. Narrative is second in this character led family comedy to the exploration of family rifts, hidden desires, past disputes, recriminations, family bitching etc. find out more...

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A DAY IN THE DEATH OF JOE EGG (1972)

Certification15 Our Rating

A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death and emotional trauma with a humour that hides their pain.
Superb bittersweet 'comedy'.

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ALMOST CHRISTMAS (2013)

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AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN (1984)

Certification15 Our Rating

A little Reaganite romance about a dashing fighter pilot and a simple girl from the town. It's tough trying to make it at pilot training school, but then Richi is just so hunky.... find out more...

AND THE BAND PLAYED ON (1993)

Certification15 Our Rating

The story of the discovery of the AIDS virus, from the early days in 1978, when San Francisco gays began dying from unknown causes, to the identification of the HIV virus. Bigots spoke of a gay plague, scientists fought for the kudos of being first to identify the cause, and disagreements beset San Francisco's gays over the closure of the bathhouses. The film, quite rightly, deals with these issues. find out more...

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AND WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

When Arthur Morrison was diagnosed with terminal cancer and with only a few weeks to live, his son Blake returned to the Yorkshire village of his youth and visited his ailing father in the hospital where he had spent so much time as a GP. Blake reminisces on their shared experiences, the intimacies and the irritations of their relationship, articulately expressing the contradictions, frustrations, love and loss bound into the complicated relationships which most of us have with our parents as we find out more...

ANGELA'S ASHES (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

Taken from the Pulitzer prize winning novel by Frank McCourt, the story revolves around Frank's early childhood in Limerick in the 1930s. A world of intense poverty and social deprivation, where only the spirit of family, community and laughter in the face of adversity, enable the people to keep their soul and sanity intact. find out more...