Film / Action
The Girl in the Spider’s Web
Claire Foy stars in a reboot of the Dragon Tattoo series, with Bristol's very own Stephen Merchant
Film
The King and I from the London Palladium
The Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical
Film
Happy New Year Colin Burstead + Ben Wheatley Q&A
Ben Wheatley turns his hand to the dysfunctional family drama
Film
Mountains on Stage Winter Edition 2018
Back in Bristol with four new adventure and exploration films
This week brings a new dragon tattoo flick, yet another Robin Hood and, er, Nativity Rocks! The big arthouse release is the ecstatically received Shoplifters.
On the event cinema front, Mountains on Stage returns to the Showcase and The King and I is screening just about everywhere.
Elsewhere, Bristol’s greatest cultural export is celebrated in the Cary Grant Comes Home for the Weekend festival.
Follow the links below for cinemas, screening times, trailers, etc., and go here for our comprehensive film listings.
Film / Action
Claire Foy stars in a reboot of the Dragon Tattoo series, with Bristol's very own Stephen Merchant
Film / Action
Taron Egerton gets to do the outlaw thing in this "gritty reimagining"
Film / Art House
Hirokazu Kore-eda's superbly crafted portrait of a Tokyo underclass family
Film / Thriller
Critic-dividing, zeitgeist-surfy social media teensploitation flick
Film / Comedy
Fourth film in Debbie Isitt's critic-proof Nativity film series
Film / Comedy
Comedy with Tiffany Haddish as an ex-con who suspects her sister is being catfished
Film / Festival Screening
Cary Grant's first collaboration with Hitchcock - a romantic thriller with Joan Fontaine
Film / Festival Screening
Cary Grant stars in classic Hitchcock mistaken identity thriller, back on screen at the Planetarium
Film / Festival Screening
4K restoration of the quintessential Hitchcock thriller with Bristol's Cary Grant
Film / Comedy
Oscar-nominated love triangle romcom returns to the screen for the Cary Grant festival
Film / Festival Screening
Cary Grant fest concludes with vintage fashions, themed cocktails & a Hitchcock romantic thriller
Film / Comedy
Classic Howard Hawks romcom with Bristol's very own Cary Grant
Film / Documentary
Mark Kidel's eye-opening film about Bristol's greatest star launches this year's Cary Grant fest
Columnists / Emily Waddell
Emily Waddell finds her own reasons to leave Bristol
Film / Event Cinema
The Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical
Film / Documentary
How the Nazis looted 'degenerate' art across Europe
Film / Event Cinema
Back in Bristol with four new adventure and exploration films
Film / Drama
Ben Wheatley turns his hand to the dysfunctional family drama
Film / Event Cinema
Alan Bennett's sharp and funny NHS drama, filmed during its limited London run
Film / Comedy
A feminist homage to '70s sexploitation flicks
Film / Action
Cyborg Arnie returns as part of time travel day at the museum
Film / Documentary
Documentary exploring whether magic mushrooms can cure depression
Film / Animation
The 21st Pokémon movie and a direct sequel to 'I Choose You!'
Film / Comedy
Jack Nicholson is let off the leash in enjoyable witchy romp
Film / Art House
Drama about a Jewish boy and his brother escaping Nazi persecution in occupied France
Film / Art House
Margarethe von Trotta's portrait of the Polish-born Jewish revolutionary
Film / Comedy
Cat upstages cast in the 1958 witch comedy that inspired Bewitched
Film / Art House
2K restoration of Jean Cocteau's imaginative retelling of the Orpheus myth
Film / Animation
Anime fantasy about a boy who travels through time learning to be a better brother
Film / Documentary
Return of Bristol's longest running open screen short film night
Film / Fantasy
Johnny Depp and Jude Law join the cast for episode two of the Potter prequel series
Film / Animation
Benedict Cumberbatch voices the Christmas-hating furry verdant person in Dr. Seuss animation
Film / Fantasy
Dakota Johnson stars in a thrilling fever dream makeover of Dario Argento's horror classic
Film / Drama
Mr. Robot star Rami Malek wears the Freddie Mercury teeth in this long-gestating Queen flick
Film / Thriller
Steve McQueen adapts Lynda La Plante's female heist thriller
Film / Drama
Bradley Cooper directs and stars in the third remake of this crowd-pleasing musical romance
Film / Fantasy
Johnny Depp and Jude Law join the cast for episode two of the Potter prequel series
Film / Documentary
They're the most globally successful boyband of all time, apparently
Film / Family
Disney's lavish 'reimagining' of the ETA Hoffman story and Tchaikovsky ballet
Film / Action
Rowan Atkinson spoils us with a belated threequel to his unfunny spy spoofs
Film / Animation
Family animation in which a yeti scientist becomes convinced that mythical humans actually exist
Film / Horror
An entertaining, JJ Abrams-produced slice of zombie-themed Nazisploitation
Film / Action
Tom Hardy is possessed by an alien 'symbiote' rotter in this Spider-Man spin-off
Film / Documentary
A selection of independent wildlife films from across the world
Film / Horror
The BBFC serves its Christmas turkey in the form of this festive 1984 slasher
Film / Comedy
Python's Arthurian classic returns to the screen
Film / Comedy
Laurel and Hardy's greatest feature, introduced by Bill Oddie and Robin Ince
Film / Drama
Rachel Weisz stars in an exploration of faith and sexuality in London's Orthodox Jewish community
Film / Art House
Almodovar's Oscar-nominated 1988 classic launches Comedy Genius season
Film / Comedy
It's here: that Scottish Christmas zombie apocalypse musical you ordered
Film / Drama
James Stewart stars in festive family classic
Film / Drama
Bizarro Christian surfer flick that's been compared to The Room