20th Century Flicks, Bristol

A dramatisation of the spy Guy Burgess's school days at Eton, showing the cruel and rigid system that educated the leaders of the day. Extremely convincing in its detailing, including Everett's portrayal of the young, exuberant, homosexual Guy Burgess. A modern British cinema classic. find out more...

APOCALYPTO (2006)

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The Mayan Empire is at its peak, the last mighty roar before its cataclysmic fall, and there are no Central American people, however small and nomadic their tribe, that remain free of its murderous grasp. When his people are massacred and Jaguar Paw captured he, with the remnants of his tribe, begins a long and merciless journey to the Mayan capital, a place due to be his last, brief, bloody home. But the knowledge of the survival of his wife and child wills Jaguar on to become more than just an find out more...

AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY (2013)

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Members of the Weston family reunite at their family home in Osage County, Oklahoma when their troubled poet father Beverly goes missing; but left to the mercy of their opinionated, drug-addicted matriarch, Violet, the family’s facade of normality soon begins to disintegrate. A beautifully performed, viciously perceptive adaptation by Tracy Letts of her own play.

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BAD TEACHER (2011)

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Elizabeth is a teacher; she drinks, she gets high, she hates her pupils and she can’t wait to marry her meal ticket and get out of her bogus day job. When a rich, handsome substitute teacher appears on the scene Liz sees her chance, but competing for his affections is an overly energetic and anal colleague, Amy. A pretty generic ‘I see the error of my ways’ romantic comedy but Diaz in particular makes the whole thing a lot of fun....who’d a guessed.

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BATTLE OF THE BULGE (1965)

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In the winter of 1944 the Allies prepared to invade Germany but to the surprise of everybody (bar the Enigma code-breaking team) Hitler not only managed a counter-attack in the Ardennes, but a remarkably successful one. The film shows the conflict from the perspectives of an American intelligence officer and a German Panzer Commander. find out more...

BEAUTIFUL GIRLS (1996)

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A twenty-something romantic drama following a group of old school buddies as they reunite, one winter, and discuss love, life, women, sports and anything in between. But it's Willie, home alone, who faces the biggest dilemma when he develops a crush on his next door neighbour... and she's just thirteen. Not a great deal happens, but it's a witty and beautifully observed study of the frailty of friendship and easy on the eye. find out more...

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BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD (2007)

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Andy has a plan to get him out of his chronic debt, and that's to rob a jewellery store, but in order to see things through he'll need some help which is where his nervous younger brother comes in. The place Andy intends to rob is actually owned by his parents, but the two men are not up for the job and when all goes tragically wrong they are faced with a father whose rage is beyond any consolation the brothers might have to offer. "Before The Devil Know's You're Dead" is a dark and brooding dra find out more...

BEST SHOT (1986)

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One of the most rousingly enjoyable sports movies ever made, this small-town drama tells the story of the Hickory Huskers, an underdog basketball team from a tiny Indiana High School trying to make it to the state championship. find out more...

BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974)

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The few remaining residents of a Canadian sorority house are celebrating the onset of Christmas vacation, but a stalk'n'slash freak is on the loose and one by one the residents get suffocated, chopped etc. Will any of them survive? Director Bob Clark's tense, effective film is a precursor, in effect the template, to the 'stalk'n'slash' films, Friday 13th, Halloween et al, that would come a half decade later. find out more...

BLACK HAWK DOWN (2001)

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October 1993, Mogadishu, Somalia and a force of elite American troops, under the banner of the UN, are sent into the city to abduct a warlord's henchmen. But the carefully laid plan quickly goes belly up and the soldiers are left fighting for their lives with little support and vastly out numbered. Black Hawk Down is a relentless slab of action and though based on true events, no attempt is made to explain the why or the wherefore beyond "badman" versus "goodman" and heroic stereotypes abound. A find out more...