20th Century Flicks, Bristol

Midway through Michael Bay’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, interrupting its bizarre mix of war pornography and dour isolationist posturing, there’s a shoehorned moment of mawkishness. Jack (John Krasinski) is one of the ex-armed forces contractors taking a babysitting job as security to CIA specialists halfway around the world. He’s Skyping w find out more...

A TOUCH OF ZEN (1969)

Certification15 Our Rating

One night, while investigating strange noises, artist, Ku, meets the beautiful Yang, who is living in a reputedly haunted abandoned fort. She is being pursued by the Imperial police and Ku finds himself caught up in many fights in her struggle to survive. This historical epic, set in the Ming Dynasty is action adventure with a lyrical feel, a kung fu film with a strong spiritual element, a combination of both Chinese and Japanese legend that mixes fantasy with political intrigue - Zen Buddhism i find out more...

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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA SEASON 1 DISC 4 (2004)

Certification12 Our Rating

Episodes on this disc are: Colonial Day; President Roslin has reconstructed the legislative branch of the government, but terrorist leader/political dissident Tom Zarek is elected as a member and immediately motions that the Quorum vote to appoint a new Vice President. Kobol's Last Gleaming Part 1; Galactica stumbles upon Kobol, the long-lost home that the 13 Tribes came from, which legend says holds clues to the location of Earth. Roslin convinces Starbuck to steal the captured Cylon raider and find out more...

BLOOD DIAMOND (2006)

Certification15 Our Rating

1999 and Sierra Leone is in the midst of civil war, the rebels infamously using an army of indoctrinated children to do their genocidal work. In the midst of this bloodshed two unlikely men are drawn together, one a desperate father whose son has become a rebel soldier, the other a self-serving white Rhodesian mercenary in search of an immense uncut diamond. The two are bound together by their wildly divergent, but inextricably linked, quests and it is here that the action of the film lies as th find out more...

CHILDREN OF MEN (2006)

Certification15 Our Rating

In a not far off dystopian future women have become infertile and governments have forgotten that Orwell's �1984' was supposed to be a searing indictment of what NOT to do. Into this less than hopeful world arrives a young woman who has achieved the miracle of pregnancy, everyone wants the child as a cynical totem for the people, and those planning rebellion are as ruthless as those in power. Finding a reluctant but increasingly determined guardian in the form of Theo, mother and child go in sea find out more...

COCO (2017)

CertificationPG Our Rating unrated

Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer. —Disney/Pixar

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CONTRABAND (2012)

Certification15 Our Rating

Lucy Fife Donaldson says: "Mark Wahlberg is pulled back into the smuggling business when his brother-in-law falls foul of a no-good gang, run by Giovanni Ribisi (who looks and sounds the meanest he has yet). What follows is a fairly standard, but no less fun for it, caper of heist plans and double (double) crosses that goes to Panama and back. If you can’t fall for the easy charm of Wahlberg, not to mention the wiry charisma of Ribisi and Ben Foster, then this is unlikely to be of much find out more...

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CRUDE: THE REAL PRICE OF OIL (2009)

CertificationE Our Rating

One of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion "Amazon Chernobyl" case, CRUDE is a real-life high stakes legal drama set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film examines a complicate find out more...

DISTRICT 9 (2009)

Certification15 Our Rating

Set in Johannesburg (more than a welcome change to the usual formulaic Hollywood paradigm whereby LA or New York are not only the backdrop for disaster but act too as the centre-point of planet Earth), An ominous mothership hovers above Johannesburg containing an alien race of insectoid refugees. Derogatively referred to as 'Prawns' by humans they are cordoned off in an apartheid-esque fashion and forced to live a desolate and slum-like existence in the titular District 9. While forcibly relocat find out more...

FERDINAND (2017)

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After Ferdinand, a bull with a big heart, is mistaken for a dangerous beast, he is captured and torn from his home. Determined to return to his family, he rallies a misfit team on the ultimate adventure.

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