20th Century Flicks, Bristol

You wake up one morning and there's nobody around, Yipee! But hold your horses there buddy, the world has been wiped out by a lethal virus and you are just one of a few struggling survivors doomed to save the remnants of a bleak post-apocalyptic world. 28 Days Later bares much similarity to 'Day of the Triffids' and Boyle's use of digital camera adds to the generally spooky and occassionally terrifying atmosphere. An originally directed, solidly acted and effective cushion-grabbing horror......n find out more...

30 ROCK SEASON 3 DISC 3 (2009)

Certification15 Our Rating

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)

Certification15 Our Rating

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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9 (2009)

Certification12 Our Rating

'9' is a toy living in a desolate post-apocalyptic future who allies with some ragtag straw dolls in order to defeat The Beast, a giant stalking mechanical cat. The scenery is bleak, the tone sombre, the digitalization impressive, but the characters are adult-allergic in this ambitious and original neo-Manga. 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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AKIRA (1987)

Certification15 Our Rating

2019. The Earth is on the brink of destruction, Tokyo shimmers with post-punk fetishism, gangs of cyberpunk bikers and rioting crowds are on the streets of the post-atomic city. The scene is set for comic-book ultra-violence in this remarkable animated nightmare of hyper-reality. find out more...

AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN (1984)

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A little Reaganite romance about a dashing fighter pilot and a simple girl from the town. It's tough trying to make it at pilot training school, but then Richi is just so hunky.... find out more...

BAREFOOT GEN (1983)

Certification12 Our Rating

A deeply moving autobiographical account by the manga artist Keiji Nakazawa, who, as a six year old boy living in Hiroshima on August 6th 1945, witnessed the horrific aftermath of the first atomic bomb. Terrible, tragic and utterly hypnotic. find out more...

CASSHERN (2004)

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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...