20th Century Flicks, Bristol

Japan is reaching a point of economic and social meltdown, school kids are revolting and teachers fear for their lives. In order to make an example the government introduces The Battle Royale Act - a problem class of teenagers are picked and sent to a secluded island where they are each given one weapon and must to fight to the death, with only one survivor permitted, and this year's choice, because one pupil knifed a teacher, is Class B from Zentsuji Middle School. Battle Royale had rave review find out more...

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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA SEASON 3 DISC 1 (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

The dark, brutal and apocalyptic spawn of the cheesy original 80's TV series is back for its third season, and shows little sign of flagging. There is no letting up on the beleaguered remnants of humanity as they struggle to survive the onslaught of the Cylons and find a way to earth, but they're frequently in as much danger from each other as they are from their robotic nemeses and, as the Cylons discover compassion, so the humans begin to lose it. Occupation; find out more...

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BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986)

Certification15 Our Rating

Action fantasy tale about a wise-cracking trucker who attempts to rescue his friend's fiance from a 2000 year-old magician who lives beneath San Francisco's Chinatown. He must battle demons, goblins and other terrors as he makes his way through the magician's dark domain. An excellent chop suey movie, very funny, highly entertaining and probably way ahead of it's time.

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BLACK BOOK (2006)

Certification15 Our Rating

The Netherlands towards the end of WWII and Jewess Rachel Stein must abandon her hiding place and make a break for freedom. After escaping the massacre of a boat load of refugees fleeing toward Allied lines, Rachel, alone, bereft and terrified, joins the Resistance and, using her feminine wiles and intelligence, infiltrates the lair of those responsible for her grief. Black Book is a cracking thriller; tense, gripping, and full of irony, Dutch resistance heroes aren't all models of virtue and we find out more...

BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF (2001)

Certification15 Our Rating

Based on the myth of the Beast of Gevaudan, a creature that roamed the French countryside in the 18th Century slaughtering women and children. A revolutionary young scientist and his Iroquoi Indian companion are enlisted to hunt down the mysterious and perhaps supernatural animal, but the beast seems impossibly elusive and their troubles are compounded by the local authorities, some of whom appear to be hiding a dark secret. Brotherhood Of The Wolf is an insane mixture of horror, martial arts st find out more...

BULLITT (1968)

Certification15 Our Rating

One of the classic thrillers of the late sixties as a copper is assigned to protect a key state witness in a gangster trial. When the witness is killed the hunt is on for who knew where he was. A tense action packed thriller with one of the great car chases of all time. find out more...

CASSHERN (2004)

Certification15 Our Rating

The earth has been at war for over half a century, Europa against the Eastern Federation and though the federation has finally won the human race is all but wiped out. Only geneticist Dr Azuma has an answer to their plight and when lightening hits the Doctor's laboratory a new breed of mutants is inadvertently formed, amongst them his recently dead son, a now super human being heralded as humanity's last best hope of survival. Casshern is a mind boggling sci-fi action epic, an apocalyptic Manga find out more...

CLOVERFIELD (2008)

Certification15 Our Rating

You know how before this came out at the cinema there was massive internet hype, a mind boggling disaster, sci-fi, horror, action flick, but bugger all about what the plot actually involved? Well that's because apart from monsters reeking havoc in New York, and some pretty young things trapped in the carnage, there is no plot; nada, zilch, nothing. Cloverfield works so well because it stoutly refuses to offer you anything other than adrenalin fuelled, clammy palmed escapism and filming it throug 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...