20th Century Flicks, Bristol

Razor-sharp rom-com, putting a contemporary slant on Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew". Probably the best of the recnt re-worked classics, the action kicks off in a Seattle high school, where new boy Cameron has fallen head over heels for the lovely Bianca. But there's one very big fly in the ointment - Bianca's big sister, surly rebel-without-a-clue Kat, who hates everything and everyone, particularly if they're male. To keep the peace, the girls' parents have decreed that Bianca can't st find out more...

10 YEARS (2011)

Certification12 Our Rating

10 Years follows a group of friends on the night of their high school reunion who, a decade after leaving school, still haven t quite grown up. Among the friends is Jake (Channing Tatum) who is deeply in love with his girlfriend and ready to propose until he runs into his high school flame (Rosario Dawson) for the first time in years. As the night goes on friendships are reignited, rivalries reemerge and for some, love is found in unexpected places.
Pleasantly surprising romantic indie find out more...

27 DRESSES (2008)

Certification12 Our Rating

27 times a bridesmaid and never been... ! Sorry wrong movie, but quite possibly appropriate in this risque, and surprisingly funny, chick flick about... er... a girl out there still beating the bush for Mr Right. Could her boss be him? Or will that duplicitous little minx of a younger sister grab the boss first? One for all you sweet hearts who deserve the right guy. find out more...

30 ROCK SEASON 3 DISC 3 (2009)

Certification15 Our Rating

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.
Episode 19: The Ones. Jack has second thoughts about marrying find out more...

500 DAYS OF SUMMER (2009)

Certification12 Our Rating

Tom falls in love with 'manic pixie dream girl' Summer, but she suddenly calls a halt to the affair and announces she just wants to be good friends. Tom is torn asunder by her decision, but as we wander back through their relationship it becomes clear Tom may have presumed more than Summer ever actually offered. '500 Days of Summer' is a clever, original, witty and perceptive indie flick about the painful vagaries of love and our eternal, most likely pointless, struggle to understand it. find out more...

A DELICATE BALANCE (1973)

CertificationPG Our Rating

The sister who drinks too much, the daughter who divorces too much, they're both there with Tobias and Agnes for a little get-together� and tear-apart. 'A Delicate Balance' was Edward Albee's first Pulitzer Prize winning play and in it he examines the same waspish middle-class America which he explored to such caustic effect in 'Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?' find out more...

A FOREIGN AFFAIR (1948)

CertificationU Our Rating

An American officer and German cabaret singer are having an affair, but a starchy Republican congresswoman sent to Berlin to check on 'morality', whilst initially shocked by the levels of corruption surrounding her, soon falls for the officer's charms. find out more...

A GOOD MARRIAGE (1982)

Certification15 Our Rating

Sabine, a young arts student, is fed up with her place as mistress to a married man and decides to get herself hitched. Her friend Clarisse suggests a prime candidate to her in the form of the eligible Edmond and the misguided Sabine sets her heart on, excuse me, taking him up the aisle. Edmond isn't easily convinced that he's the sort of guy who'll get married though. This simply plotted movie provides Rohmer with enough of an opportunity for some great dialogue exploring the nature of marriage find out more...

A GOOD WOMAN (2005)

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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...

A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (1949)

CertificationU Our Rating

The film opens with shots of a prosperous town and its stately avenues of rich mens' houses, all placidly awaiting the start of the country club season, as the venomously honeyed voice of an unseen female narrator begins spinning a web of speculation and suspicion round three married women, shortly to be completed by their receipt of a poisonous letter indicating that the narrator has run away with one of their husbands. With the three wives trapped for the day supervising a children's picnic find out more...