20th Century Flicks, Bristol

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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8 WOMEN (2008)

Certification15 Our Rating

The ageing patriot of a country estate set in the hauntingly beautiful landscape of French winter, is found dead shortly before the families Christmas celebrations. There are eight suspects, all female, all with an incentive, each with a secret and all in their own very different ways, remarkable. Eight Women is a gloriously enjoyable whodunit, clever, witty and visually sumptuous, but it's the cast, ye gods the cast! That lifts it all that extra level. Excellent find out more...

A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (1949)

CertificationU Our Rating

The film opens with shots of a prosperous town and its stately avenues of rich mens' houses, all placidly awaiting the start of the country club season, as the venomously honeyed voice of an unseen female narrator begins spinning a web of speculation and suspicion round three married women, shortly to be completed by their receipt of a poisonous letter indicating that the narrator has run away with one of their husbands. With the three wives trapped for the day supervising a children's picnic find out more...

AFTERNOON DELIGHT (2013)

Certification18 Our Rating

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AIRPLANE! (1980)

CertificationPG Our Rating

Every TV mini series and disaster movie cliche taken apart put back together, turned upside down and then kicked to bits. Starring all the actors who normally do this kind of thing seriously. A laugh every five seconds - this film can be watched over and over and over again! Voted second funniest film by Observer readers in a 2007 poll. find out more...

ALMOST CHRISTMAS (2013)

Certification15 Our Rating

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AMERICAN SPLENDOUR (2003)

Certification15 Our Rating

Harvey Pekar lives the life most of us dream of avoiding, a filing clerk by day, a man at odds with, and lost in, the world he inhabits the other sixteen hours. Harvey begins to write down his disgruntled observations and with the help of equally cantankerous illustrator, Harry Crumb, �American Splendor' is born. This movie of the man's life is an inspired mixture of animation, documentary and dramatisation, with Paul Giamatti finally getting a role worth his talent. Funny, sad, sharp and hip to find out more...

BAD SANTA (2003)

Certification15 Our Rating

Willie T Stokes just isn't a nice man, but then he doesn't really need to be because he's an embittered, amoral safe cracker masquerading as a department store Santa, so lovability would probably be a handicap. When Willy and his midget partner settle in for another big festive score, they find themselves having to deal with a keen eyed store detective and a cute kid who thinks he's the real deal, not a problem you would think, but is Willie in danger of finding himself a conscience?. Crude, lew find out more...

BATTLE ROYALE (2001)

Certification18 Our Rating

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...