This week’s biggie is something that should please (almost) everybody: an arthouse crossover horror. Us is the new one from Jordan Peele, whose Get Out was one of the best films of 2017.
We also have the premiere of new local youth flick Fantasy, the start of the ¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Film Festival tour and South West Silents’ screening of fascinating early German-Jewish drama The Ancient Law. There’s plenty of event cinema too, notably The Great Escape with Dan Snow. Nope, it’s not a remake with the telly historian taking the place of Steve McQueen, but a live broadcast of a 4K print with performances and discussions to mark the 75th anniversary of the real escape.
Follow the links below for cinemas and screening times and go here for our comprehensive film listings.
Film / Horror
Jordan Peele's brilliant follow-up to Get Out
Film / Drama
Ralph Fiennes directs a drama centred on Rudolf Nureyev's dramatic defection to the west
Film / Comedy
Sick lit weepie in which two teens with cystic fibrosis fall in love
Film / Comedy
Andrew Garfield stumbles into a massive conspiracy in this mystery from the director of It Follows
Film / Drama
75th anniversary commemoration of the real POW escape, with a 4K screening of the film
Film / Documentary
Exploration of the Jewish influence on the British film industry
Film / Event Cinema
The singer's 1983 Central Park concert repackaged to mark her 75th birthday
Film / Documentary
The history of the legendary American jazz label
Film / Event Cinema
Emmylou Harris, James Taylor, Graham Nash and chums celebrate Joni Mitchell's 75th birthday
Film / Ballet
Porkers get scoffed in interactive bite-sized ballet for tots
Film / Event Cinema
Edward and Freddie Fox star in Wilde's never-more-timely tale of politics and sin
Film / Event Cinema
The hit feelgood musical that does the Billy Elliot thing again
Film / Drama
A new film from a local teenage director featuring the work of 30 artists
Film / Drama
Rare screening of this key piece of early German-Jewish cinema
Film / Art House
Striking debut feature launches ¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Festival 2019 Tour
Film / Comedy
First local screening of this Israeli comedy-drama about rival father & son academics
Film / Comedy
Buster Keaton classic screened with live piano accompaniment
Film / Drama
The late River Phoenix stars in coming-of-age classic
Film / Fantasy
Dakota Johnson stars in a thrilling fever dream makeover of Dario Argento's horror classic
Film / Documentary
Return of Bristol's longest running open screen short film night
Film / Action
Brie Larson gets to wear the costume in Marvel's very first female-driven superhero movie
Film / Comedy
Outdoor screening of this true-life Britcom about a bunch of sea shanty singing fishermen
Film / Documentary
The true story of the first women's team to compete in the Whitbread Round the World Race
Film / Comedy
That gender-flipped verison of What Women Want that you've been waiting 18 years for
Film / Animation
Five years on from the first movie, everything is no longer awesome
Film / Comedy
Bristol's Stephen Merchant directs a true-life comedy about a female wrestler
Film / Animation
Hiccup and Toothless face a new villain in animated fantasy threequel
Film / Action
Brie Larson gets to wear the costume in Marvel's very first female-driven superhero movie
Film / Comedy
Simon Amstell directs a self-referential comedy-drama about an anxious, socially inept filmmaker
Film / Art House
A twisted, genre-defying Scandinavian fantasy from the writer of Let the Right One In
Film / Comedy
Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne decide to build their own family through foster care
Film / Comedy
Peter Farrelly does Driving Miss Daisy in reverse
Film / Family
Schoolboy happens upon Excalibur in Arthurian kiddie fantasy
Film / Drama
Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie put the mandatory feminist spin on the rival monarchs
Film / Drama
Keira Knightley stars in a steamy period drama of passion, betrayal and stylish 1940s dresses
Film / Drama
Yorgos Lanthimos's hugely entertaining period black comedy of aristocratic misbehaviour
Film / Drama
Mr. Robot star Rami Malek wears the Freddie Mercury teeth in this long-gestating Queen flick
Film / Drama
Murder, suicide, cannibalism . . . yes, it's the story of Norway's early '90s black metal scene
Film / Drama
The story of the Royal Ballet's first black principal dancer, followed by a Q&A with the man himself
Film / Event Cinema
Gillian Anderson & Lily James star in a new production of the classic tale of jealousy and ambition
Film / Event Cinema
Anna Netrebko and Jonas Kaufmann lead a star-studded cast in Verdi's epic opera
Film / Event Cinema
Multi-platinum selling US popster unveils new album with short film
Film / Comedy
A blackly comic Old West hitman drama shot in Spain and Romania by a French director
Film / Drama
Anglo-Polish thriller in which a young journalist uncovers the truth about the Katyn massacre
Film / Drama
Jessie Buckley shines in a musical crowd-pleaser about an aspiring country singer from Glasgow
Film / Comedy
Jonah Hill's directorial debut: a coming-of-age drama set in - you guessed it - the mid-90s
Film / Documentary
The story of the bloke who was Frank Sidebottom
Film / Event Cinema
Kimberley Sykes directs a new production of the Bard's riotous romcom
Film / Documentary
Documentary about pioneering herbalist screened at launch of Seed Sistas' Sensory Herbal Handbook
Film / Art House
The suitably vulgar Silvio Berlusconi story from the Oscar winning director of The Great Beauty
Film / Action
Cold-blooded beatings and go-go dancers ahoy in cracking slice of Italian exploitation cinema
Film / Documentary
The story of Sylvia Pankhurst and the fight for women to have the vote
Film / Family
Spielberg's sugary space alien flick
Film / Event Cinema
The return of David McVicar's acclaimed 2004 makeover of Gounod's opera
Film / Drama
4K restoration of Kubrick's 'ultraviolent' cause celebre
