20th Century Flicks, Bristol

Madonna doesn't try to steal the show and consequently this turns out to be an excellent film. In 1943, with the males away fighting, The All American Girls' Professional Baseball League was formed to keep the National Baseball League running. Hanks is the real star as the cynical manager/coach who learns to love his team. A comic and touching story highlighting many of the contradictions that working women face. High slush factor. find out more...

ALWAYS (1989)

CertificationPG Our Rating

Pete Sandich, a firefighting pilot with a lust for danger is tragically killed saving his best friend, Al. But Pete is to face his most difficult mission from beyond the grave, by helping his girlfriend Dorinda to rebuild her life. A touching romantic adventure, true to Spielberg's form. find out more...

AMADEUS (1984)

CertificationPG Our Rating

An award winning film full of baroque splendour. The talented composer Antonio Salieri found himself in competition with Mozart, a genius, and he couldn't understand why God favored such a vulgar creature to be his instrument. Salieri turned into a hate-filled monster, whose aim in life became to ruin his colleague, but he emerges as a tragic and sympathetic character. He alone could appreciate the perfection of Mozart's music and, perhaps, he speaks up for all of us whose talents fall short of find out more...

ANOTHER YEAR (2010)

Certification12 Our Rating

Tom and Gerri are a couple tapping reluctantly on the door of their sixties; he's a geologist and she's a psychotherapist, their son Joe an unanchored activist lawyer. When Gerri attempts to set up her lonely friend Mary she is horrified when her friend instead flirts with her son, an event that unravels the protagonists� story. Mike Leigh is on familiar territory with this comedy drama based on the lives of everyday people, and when I say �comedy� I mean �bitter sweet� and when I say �drama� I find out more...

ATONEMENT (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

During a hot and sultry 1935 summer an embryonic relationship between rich Cambridge graduate Celia (Knightly) and the housekeeper's son Robbie (McEvoy) is left in tatters when Celia's precocious sister falsely accuses James of molesting another young girl. The accusation, based on the misperceptions and childish hurts of a fevered imagination, leads to James's arrest and imprisonment. As the movie progresses, from an English manor house to the war-ravaged wastes of northern France and to bli find out more...

AUGUST RUSH (2007)

CertificationPG Our Rating

A charming young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth. How's the phrase go �one man's junk is another's gold'..... No? Well the point is "August Rush", a whimsic find out more...

AWAKENINGS (1990)

Certification15 Our Rating

In a New York hospital Dr Malcolm Sayers finds a group of "forgotten" coma patients, seemingly oblivious to the world and beyond help. Through sheer dedication he discovers a spark of life in his charges and a long suppressed capacity for love in himself. A beautiful and uplifting true story. find out more...

BAMBI (1942)

CertificationU Our Rating

Bambi is a beautiful baby deer, (doe, to grown-ups), born in the forest and brought up amongst friends like Thumper the rabbit and Flower, the funky skunk. The animation stands up to anything contemporary and the animals are just so darn cute! A real winner. find out more...

BREAKING AWAY (1979)

Certification12 Our Rating

Peter Yates' Oscar-winner is a heart-warming coming-of-age story that has also taken its place as the greatest sports movie about cycling ever made. Four friends graduate from high-school and find themselves looking at an uncertain future in small-town America. Dave's passion is cycling and his dream is to be a world-class champion like the Italians he idolises. His passion for cycling takes on new meaning when he and his friends face a team from the local college in the town's annual bike ra find out more...

CASABLANCA (1942)

CertificationPG Our Rating

Nothing more can be said about this classic melodrama from the peak of the Hollywood studio-film era. Hardened cynic Bogart softens when he meets old flame Bergman who is now a refugee in neutral wartime Casablanca. Together they outwit the Germans... and of course there's that famous song. Watch this classic or some day you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow... find out more...