Film / Horror
The Hole in the Ground
Spooky kid finds giant sinkhole in rural Ireland in suspenseful arthouse crossover horror
Film
Maiden + Tracy Edwards satellite Q&A
The true story of the first women's team to compete in the Whitbread Round the World Race
This week, Keira Knightley’s latest period drama The Aftermath slugs it out for box office glory with warm-hearted true life wrestling comedy Fighting with My Family from Bristol’s very own Stephen Merchant.
Elsewhere, the 4K anniverary reissue of the original Alien is unleashed, there are previews of Maiden with a Tracy Edwards satllite Q&A, and Bristol Film Festival’s spring programme gets into gear with screenings at venues that include the City Museum, Aerospace Bristol and the Planetarium.
Follow the links for full details of all this and much more and go here for our comprehensive film listings.
Film / Horror
Spooky kid finds giant sinkhole in rural Ireland in suspenseful arthouse crossover horror
Film / Drama
Keira Knightley stars in a steamy period drama of passion, betrayal and stylish 1940s dresses
Film / Comedy
Bristol's Stephen Merchant directs a true-life comedy about a female wrestler
Film / Art House
Award-winning drama about the absurdities of war from the director of Lebanon
Film / Drama
Heartfelt true-life Alzheimer's drama with Hilary Swank and Michael Shannon
Film / Art House
Charlotte Rampling dominates the screen as a woman who falls apart after her husband's incarceration
Film / Documentary
Award-winning documentary about the work of Japan's first openly gay law firm
Film / Art House
Powerful and explicit drama about a gay hustler looking for love
Film / Thriller
Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway star in a noirish mystery thriller
Film / Science Fiction
The original Spielberg dino-romp screened in Bristol Zoo Gardens
Film / Action
Indy whups dastardly Nazi ass in the first and best of the Indiana Jones flicks
Film / Animation
Pixar's outer space masterpiece screened at the Planetarium
Film / Festival Screening
Ridley Scott's Martian survival drama screened at the Planetarium
Film / Drama
Stiffen those upper lips for a 50th anniversary screening of worthy WWII drama beneath Concorde
Film / Documentary
The true story of the first women's team to compete in the Whitbread Round the World Race
Film / Event Cinema
Kathleen Turner gets a speaking role in the Met's production of Donizetti's opéra comique
Film / Documentary
Documentary portrait of the great surrealist and his wife and muse Gala
Film / Comedy
Tim Burton's Oscar-winning supernatural comedy
Film / Event Cinema
Grand production of Verdi's opera set in Ancient Egypt
Film / Event Cinema
The hit feelgood musical that does the Billy Elliot thing again
Film / Event Cinema
David Hare's 'state of the Labour Party' satire, broadcast live from the West End
Film / Ballet
A shoemaker aquires magical footwear in this interactive bite-sized ballet for tots
Film / Documentary
Restored and colourised WWI footage offers a new insight into the conflict
Film / Art House
Iranian drama launches Bristol Feminist Film Club
Film / Drama
Lynne Ramsay's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's novel launches Jonny Greenwood score season
Film / Comedy
Danny Boyle's '90s cult classic, screened in Redcliffe Caves
Film / Drama
Give it your best scaramouche along with Rami Malek's Freddie Mercury at this open-air screening
Film / Documentary
Road trip documentary about a family coming to terms with suicide
Film / Art House
Reissue of the award-winning 1998 Russian satire that inspired Armando Ianucci
Film / Animation
Five years on from the first movie, everything is no longer awesome
Film / Comedy
Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne decide to build their own family through foster care
Film / Art House
Oscar nominated drama about a Beirut kid who sues his parents for the 'crime' of giving him life
Film / Comedy
Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant star in the true story of a literary fraud
Film / Animation
Hiccup and Toothless face a new villain in animated fantasy threequel
Film / Action
Avatar-style fantasy epic adapted from a manga and produced by James Cameron
Film / Family
Schoolboy happens upon Excalibur in Arthurian kiddie fantasy
Film / Action
Liam Neeson hits the vengeance trail again. In a snow plow.
Film / Documentary
Gentle documentary about the bathing ponds of Hampstead Heath and the people who use them
Film / Comedy
Peter Farrelly does Driving Miss Daisy in reverse
Film / Drama
Felicity Jones stars as the late RBG in this feminist superhero origin story
Film / Drama
Mr. Robot star Rami Malek wears the Freddie Mercury teeth in this long-gestating Queen flick
Film / Drama
Yorgos Lanthimos's hugely entertaining period black comedy of aristocratic misbehaviour
Film / Horror
The inevitable sequel to that enjoyable Blumhouse teen slasher twist on Groundhog Day
Film / Comedy
A completely unrecognisable Christian Bale becomes Dick Cheney in this comedy/drama
Film / Drama
Warm and funny twilight years biopic, partly shot in Bristol
Film / Family
Emily Blunt assumes creepy levitating sprog-wrangler duties in belated Disney sequel
Film / Drama
Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie put the mandatory feminist spin on the rival monarchs
Film / Drama
Barry Jenkins follows the Oscar winning Moonlight with this adaptation of James Baldwin's novel
Film / Action
Franchise spin-off animation with a half-Puerto Rican, half-African-American Spider-Man
Film / Event Cinema
Emmylou Harris, James Taylor, Graham Nash and chums celebrate Joni Mitchell's 75th birthday
Film / Drama
75th anniversary commemoration of the real POW escape, with a 4K screening of the film
Film / Documentary
Documentary chronicling explicit performances in an underground LA lesbian club
Film / Event Cinema
Part two of Wagner's Ring Cycle, with The Ride of the Valkyries
Film / Festival Screening
A dystopian sci-fi drama set in a world where AIDS has been eradicated
Film / Event Cinema
The singer's 1983 Central Park concert repackaged to mark her 75th birthday
Film / Ballet
Porkers get scoffed in interactive bite-sized ballet for tots
Film / Documentary
The history of the legendary American jazz label
Film / Comedy
Andrew Garfield stumbles into a massive conspiracy in this mystery from the director of It Follows
Film / Drama
A new film from a local teenage director featuring the work of 30 artists