Friday 20th August until Thursday 2nd September 2010 @ Watershed, Bristol

Do you remember the days before Toy Story style computer animation became the norm? When cartoons featured bouncy quiffs, white smiles with no teeth and slap stick ‘boing’s and ‘blub, blub’s coming from every enormous cliff/tree/bath tub? Childhood associations and a unique shabby charm make these animation reels appear more innocent and refreshing than any computerised film. Which is why when a modern day cartoon comes out at the flicks, there is a packed and varied audience, eager to see the beauty of old school style on the big screen.

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Thursday 5th until Sunday 8th August 2010 @ Watershed, Bristol

The bike holds a special place in the hearts of Bristol’s ever-growing cycling community and to celebrate the many pleasures to be had on two wheels, Watershed is hosting Cyclescreen, Bristol’s first Bike Film Festival, a season of fun, inspiring cycling films, talks and events for riders and non-riders alike. Cyclescreen’s wide variety of features, documentaries and shorts cover the wonderful diverse landscape, from the bicycle’s rich history, to cycling communities, disabled riders and lovers of road racing, mountain biking and BMX riding.

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The Cube is a volunteer-run cinema and arts venue that has been a Bristol landmark for the last 10 years. A look through their eye-catching monthly programmes will have you spoilt for choice be it sublimely intimate gigs, showings of good recent releases, art-house cinema, re-runs of classic films, themed cinema marathons, community events, documentaries put on by Bristol Indymedia, or performances from the Cube Orchestra. Suit Yourself goes behind the scenes to discover who some of these volunteers are and what they love about The Cube…

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Showing May 2010 @ Showcase Cinema De Lux, Bristol

Nope, you don’t need a DeLorean to time travel, all you need to do is get drunk with your best friends and chill in a hot tub for the night, and boom - you go back in time! I bet many people will be put off this film just by the title, and say “hey that sounds silly let’s watch something else!” If that is the case then they will miss out on one of the funniest films of the year so far.
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Showing April and May 2010 @ Showcase Cinema De Lux, Bristol

I attended this film with high expectations. Steve Carell who made The Office in America a rather big success is also outstanding in the films like 40 Year Old Virgin and Anchorman. Joining him on screen in Date Night is Tina Fey, the creator and star of the well established American TV comedy, 30 Rock. Seeing both of these actors collaborating in one film can really not be anything less than superb.

It was indeed as I expected; based in the busy city of New York, married couple, Phil and Claire Foster, are pretty bored with their relationship at the moment and want to find something that will re-ignite the flame. In attempt to do this they go to a high class restaurant in the city but discover it is booked out. Instead of heading back home to look after the kids, they decide to take someone else’s booking, pretending to be them. The night soon escalates into an exciting disaster as two men come to the table claiming the couple have something they want.
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Showing May 2010 @ Showcase Cinema De Lux, Bristol

AC/DC’s new album has just hit number one in the UK as the official soundtrack to this comic fantasy sequel; it is more than clear that there is a lot of hype surrounding this film. Yes my friends, Iron Man 2 has landed.

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Friday 16th until Thursday 29th April 2010 @ Watershed, Bristol

After being offered £250,000 by his agent to ghost write the memoirs of mysterious UK former-Prime Minister, Adam Lang (Pierce Bronson), our protagonist, known just as The Ghost (Ewan McGregor), is straight on the next plane to a secret hideout on a remote and unnamed island. As this is happening, we also see that Lang is on trial for war crimes and so a positive memoir to make him look good is a top priority. Whilst working for Lang, The Ghost uncovers that the person who was writing the memoirs before him committed suicide. After things start turning slightly suspicious in the Lang residence, The Ghost is keen to find out what really happened to his predecessor and goes looking for clues, leading to a chaotic turn of events that put his own life in danger.
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Showing April 2010 @ Showcase Cinema De Lux, Bristol

Many of us as kids read comics or watched superhero films and after escaping into these worlds, we would want to have superhero powers ourselves; this film is born of that motion. A young and somewhat overlooked highschool student Dave Lizewski has a massive love for comics. Bored with his life and the day to day pressures of school, he decides to become a superhero himself, though with no training and no actual powers it might be a bit tougher than he assumes.
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Showing March and April 2010 @ Showcase Cinema De Lux, Bristol

So here we are, a good week and half in advance of its release, an exclusive premiere for film lovers and critics and to my surprise, the cinema is completely packed - there was even people standing on the side!

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Friday 5th until Thursday 25th March 2010 @ Watershed, Bristol

Not content with dominating the art world, it seems the infamous Banksy has now turned his hand to cinema. On the face of it, his film, Exit Through The Gift Shop, is a colourful documentary about the rise of street art and its explosion in popularity over the last 5-10 years. We’ve got interviews with several of the big players (and some of the smaller ones), tales of their exploits and narrated segments of various “key” moments in the scene’s (and Banksy’s) history like the spraying of the West Bank wall and the placing of a Guantanamo Bay detainee model in Disneyland. Holding all this documenting together is the story of one man, a certain Thierry Guetta, and how his love of street art slowly took over his life and changed it beyond recognition.
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