20th Century Flicks, Bristol

A deeply moving autobiographical account by the manga artist Keiji Nakazawa, who, as a six year old boy living in Hiroshima on August 6th 1945, witnessed the horrific aftermath of the first atomic bomb. Terrible, tragic and utterly hypnotic. find out more...

CHAIN REACTION (1996)

Certification12 Our Rating

Keanu plays a whizz-kid scientist (stop sniggering please) whose team have just cracked a major development. But when their top egg-head is murdered, he and colleague Lily find the finger pointed at them, with nowhere to run and no-one to be trusted. Throwaway plot but plenty of bullet-dodging action. find out more...

CHERNOBYL DIARIES (2012)

Certification15 Our Rating

Thomas Beale reckons: "A group of young Americans journeying around Europe visit all the hotspots: London, Berlin, Paris, Kiev. They run into Paul (Jonathan Sadowski) who persuades them to go check out defunct nuclear site Chernobyl as part of the new ‘extreme tourism’ fad. Unfortunately, things don’t go to plan and the group soon find themselves endangered in a dangerous place. The location itself is something worth beholding. Long, find out more...

CHERNOBYL: DISC 1 (2019)

Certification15 Our Rating

Jared Harris (The Crown, Mad Men), Stellan Skarsgård (Breaking the Waves, Good Will Hunting) and Emily Watson (Breaking the Waves, Apple Tree Yard) star in Chernobyl, the critically acclaimed five-part mini-series. On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukrainian SSR suffered a massive explosion that released radioactive material across Belarus, Russia and Ukraine and as far as Scandinavia and Western Europe. Dramatising the true story of the 1 find out more...

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COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT (1971)

CertificationPG Our Rating

Forbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will run all of America's nuclear defenses. Shortly after being turned on, it detects th find out more...

CRIMSON TIDE (1995)

Certification15 Our Rating

Hang on to your seats for this nail-bitingly tense nuclear thriller. Hackman is the US submarine captain at odds with his First Officer (Washington) over whether to blow away the USSR, pitching the crew against each other in a battle of wills that could destroy mankind. Spectacularly exciting. find out more...

DEFENCE OF THE REALM (1985)

CertificationPG Our Rating

American Airbases, MI5, Press Barons and House of Commons cover-ups are the subjects of this tense political conspiracy thriller. A scenario all too chillingly likely - here in Airstrip One. find out more...

DR STRANGELOVE (1963)

CertificationPG Our Rating

A psychotic American commander worried about the subversive effects of water fluoridisation on his "vital bodily fluids" starts off an attack on the Soviet Union. No-one can stop the fighters and no-one, as yet, knows about the failsafe Doomsday Machine. Brilliant black comedy. find out more...

EDGE OF DARKNESS (GIBSON) (2009)

Certification15 Our Rating

Boston police officer Thomas Craven's engineer daughter is gunned down on a visit home and, as he investigates, he is dragged into a web of corporate and government conspiracy.
We don't have a genre for poor Hollywood remakes of great foreign stuff - perhaps we should - and I strongly recommend that you watch instead the quality 1985 BBC mini-series of the same name from which this detective thriller is adapted. Nevertheless 'Edge of Darkness' the remake works efficiently enough. find out more...