20th Century Flicks, Bristol

Chow Mo Wan is a man whose painful past has left him wary of love. Now committed only to a lack of commitment, Chow embarks on a series of affairs that promise to fulfil little more than his carnal desire. The majority of Chow's passion is devoted to his Science Fiction novel, a tale of characters travelling on a train to the future in order to reclaim their past. Set in the 1960s and following on from Wong Kar-Wai's passionate but ephemeral �In The Mood For Love', 2046 is a ravishing tale of lo find out more...

30 ROCK SEASON 3 DISC 3 (2009)

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Episode 17: Cutbacks. Liz is willing to do anything to avoid cutbacks at T.G.S., while Jack is forced to fire his personal assistant and hire Kenneth as his part-time assistant.
Episode 18: Jackie Jormp-Jomp. Jack tries to turn an accidental obituary for Jenna into a marketing opportunity for her Janis Joplin-based biopic. Meanwhile Liz makes friends with a group of single women while away from work for sexual harassment.
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30 ROCK SEASON 4 DISC 2 (2009)

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Liz Lemon, (Tina Fey) is the head writer on a variety series on NBC Studios. With the Jack Donaghy as Vice President of East Coast Television, played by Alec Baldwin, Series four sustains the same standard that has maintained it so far with plenty of exceptional moments. The characters are still all hugely dysfunctional and written with enormous affection and comic effect. The situations beautifully constructed. This set contains all the episodes from the show’s fourth series.

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A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001)

Certification12 Our Rating

John Nash is a brilliant, though socially awkward, mathematician and with his latest work he has achieved the acclaim that he so needed, but John is also prone to delusional behaviour, and when a mysterious stranger asks him for his help to thwart a conspiracy against the Stars and Stripes, John becomes increasingly obsessive, a state of mind that begins to push away all those he holds dear, even his loving wife. Very loosely adapted from a true story "Beautiful Mind" is the bog standard slickly find out more...

A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1999)

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Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840's London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge the error of his ways. Will Scrooge reform his ways in time to celebrate Christmas?
Well-received version of an extremely familiar morality tale.

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A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (1994)

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Dublin 1963; Alfie Byrne is a bright and cheery bus conducter, regaling his passengers with impassioned recitals of Oscar Wilde's poetry. Unfortunately, like the great man himself, Alfie is a desperately sad and frightened homosexual, torn between the love of a colleague and the desire to keep his sexuality a secret and it is only when Alfie is inspired to put on a production of Salome that he is presented with the opportunity to find some true happiness in his life. 'A Man Of No Importance' is find out more...

A MIGHTY WIND (2003)

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60s folk music was big business and �The Folksmen', �The New Main Street Singers' and �Mitch and Mickey' were at the top of the heap. Forty years later and in honour of their recently deceased manager, these musical icons decide to reform and put on a show at New York's town hall. Just like Best in Show, Spinal Tap and Waiting for Guffman, Christopher Guest has crafted an acutely observed mockumentary, sublimely eccentric, gently satirical and with numerous one liners that are delivered with an find out more...

A SERIOUS MAN (2009)

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The brothers are back with this dark tale of one man's patient struggles with the burdens of life in a very Jewish 1960s Mid-Western community. find out more...

A SINGLE MAN (2009)

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A bereaved gay LA college professor mourns the eight-month-old death of his partner. Meticulously preparing for suicide he proceeds through his last day secretly saying goodbye to his friends, but other chance encounters take place. A top notch intimate drama, adapted from Christopher Isherwood's novel of the same name, with high class editing, gorgeous cinematography from Eduard Gran, an evocative score and great looking sets. find out more...