20th Century Flicks, Bristol

'From the people who brought you 'The Wire'; Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright was embedded with the US Marine Corps 1st Reconnaissance Battalion during 2003, the first year of the second Iraq War. This is his story. find out more...

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GENERATION KILL SEASON 1 DISC 2 (2007)

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The tale of our semi-literate, foul mouthed grunts continues; find out more...

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GENERATION KILL SEASON 1 DISC 3 (2007)

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The last episode in the first season. find out more...

GOOD MORNING VIETNAM (1987)

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Robin Williams is perfectly cast as the renegade DJ sent to Vietnam to boost morale. With his sarcastic parodies of the US war machine he is loved by the men but hated by the top brass. A fast, witty and towering performance guided by assured direction from Levinson. Superb! find out more...

GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK (2005)

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Goodnight And Good Luck takes place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950s America, chronicling the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy, head of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Murrow, his news team and, indeed, CBS itself made a defiant and impassioned stand against McCarthy's increasingly delusional, corrupt and fear-fueled rants and this, George Clooney's second turn in the director's chair, is a beautifully suc find out more...

IN MY COUNTRY (2004)

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Essentially an interacial love story betwixt two journalists set against the backdrop of The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in post-apartheid South Africa. There's enough dirt about police murders and torture in the apartheid state to keep whites squirming uncomfortably and enough healing and forgiveness to leave you feeling that race problems dissipate with a bit of a hug. Nevertheless Boorman is a skilled film maker and he manages the finer aspects of this well scripted movie without teet find out more...

IN THE LOOP (2009)

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For those of you not in the know this is a brilliant satire on a bunch of totally cynical New Labour twats, incompetent elected officials and a bunch of muddling bureaucrats. Capaldi is superb, as the PM's foul mouthed attack dog enforcer (Alistair Campbell), as our politicians conspire with both hawks and doves in Washington in the fumbling build-up to a major war to grab oil in the Middle East. find out more...

JINDABYNE (2007)

Certification12 Our Rating

The discovery of a dead body by four small town Australian males on a camping and fishing expedition, and their failure to abort their trip to report it, provides the catalyst to push the entire community closer to the edge of implosion. The nuclear family, and race relations, seem as dissonant here, if not more so, than anywhere else. Top quality movie making and very thought provoking. find out more...

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MANUFACTURING DISSENT: UNCOVERING MICHAEL MOORE (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

This is a very good deconstruction of the political polemicist Michael Moore, a man who's made a lot of money out of feeding liberals entertainment and whose cupboard rattles with skeletons. The film goes into a number of details of gross inaccuracies, and betrayals of the people he pertains to support, in order to further his career. In particular we learn about lies told in 'Roger and Me', eg about the supposed apathy of the locals and about being unable to talk to Roger. We hear about the len find out more...

MOUNTAIN PATROL (2004)

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The Mountain Patrol are a pitifully ill-equipped and underfunded volunteer force fighting a relentless, and seemingly hopeless, battle against the poachers of Tibet's increasingly rare antelopes. Based on a true story and shot in a pseudo-documentary style, "Mountain Patrol" is a visually ravishing and grippingly brutal tale of men surviving on what seems like the edge of the world. Set in the beautiful harsh landscapes of Tibet, the locations are stunning, and the local colour vivid. find out more...