20th Century Flicks, Bristol

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...

CRANK (2006)

Certification18 Our Rating

Chev Chelios has just run out of luck, a man of highly dubious morals his days in the LA underworld come crashing to a halt when he discovers he's been injected with a drug that results in his heart ceasing to beat. Chev's only hope, until he can find an antidote, is to keep the adrenalin thumping through his system and, to this end, he sets about becoming a one-man wrecking crew. Reminiscent of an updated 50s B-movie Crank is a remarkably twisted main stream action movie, brutal, grotesquely hu find out more...

CRANK 2: HIGH VOLTAGE (2009)

Certification18 Our Rating

Our hero, repeating his role as the villainous London wide boy Chev, stomps his way round LA looking for the dastardly sod who has nicked his heart and replaced it with a battery run pump that needs regular high-level external electric boosts to keep functioning. A fine, darkly comic, over-the-top, non-stop, action flick, with tongue firmly in cheek and some great set pieces. find out more...

DEADLY PURSUIT (1988)

Certification15 Our Rating

An FBI agent teams up with a tracker to pursue a murderer after he vanishes into the mountains and infiltrates a hiking group.

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DEADPOOL (2016)

Certification15 Our Rating

Deadpool is not a superhero, he's a guy with a grudge who just so happens to have super accelerated healing powers. Experiment gone wrong kind of thing. Consequently he's crass, crude and often downright offensive. He breaks the fourth wall and doesn't just cross the line - no, this is a character who vomits all over it. With relish. Too sexist for my liking, but apparently it's a hit with teenage boys.

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DEATH WISH (1974)

Certification18 Our Rating

The morally vacuous tale of an architect who goes on a gun-happy vigilante mission after his wife is murdered and his daughter assaulted to the point of catatonia (by a very sleazy looking Jeff Goldblum in his first screen role). Stalking the dark and dingy streets of a New York, where every shadowy corner hides a low-life punk willing to kill you for your loose change, Bronson dispenses his own inimitable brand of justice. Despite its age 'Death Wish' still has the power to pack a punch and its find out more...

DEFIANCE (2008)

Certification15 Our Rating

The true WW2 story of how a Jewish group led by the Bielski brothers, including many women, oldies and children, survived for 4 years in the then Polish, now Belorussian, forests, lived in dugouts, built a kitchen, a mill, a bakery, a bathhouse, a medical clinic for the sick and wounded and a quarantine hut for typhus sufferers. The film has rather twisted reality, introducing action and battle scenes that never took place, and totally ignores both the role of the Polish partisans, causing some find out more...

DEMOLITION MAN (1993)

Certification15 Our Rating

Sly and Wes return in a head-to-head battle of the Titans. Wes is Simon Phoenix, master criminal, who is woken from his Cryo-sentence by evil powers. Sly is Spartan, the super-cop released to defeat Phoenix. Set in an antiseptic future with top stunts and wild action, Demolition Man is pure nonsense but rather good fun. find out more...

DIRTY HARRY (1971)

Certification18 Our Rating

Clint Eastwood plays an over-the-top fascist cop prepared to break all the rules in order to nail the "bad guys". Excellent entertainment, oft quoted by US politicians, and a warning to us liberals - keep the buggers under control. 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...