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Flow – Cat Movie or Existential Horror?
May 21, 2025 · original
A couple of weeks ago, I remembered this blog exists, and that I have set myself a task of updating it with some of my film related musings. I am not very good at keeping on top of the film release related news cycle, and often find myself wanting to write about films a month or two after the window in which anyone would consider paying me to do so has firmly shut. This one doesn’t have much of a video shop hook, other than that Flow , which I am writing about, has a physical release in the UK at the end of June, and we are definitely going to get it in. So think of this as an in-depth look at a future member of our catalogue. To mitigate the lack of relevance to this video shop blog, here is a short notice of what’s happening with Flicks at the moment: Next week, Forbidden Worlds Film Festival is happening again. I am especially excited about the premiere of The Big Picture, documentary
Dial M for Good Ship Murder: Checking in on Channel 5
Mar 4, 2025 · original
This blog post is the product of extreme procrastination. The TV section of the video shop is adorned with the words “Television is called a medium because so little of it is rare or well done.” It’s attributed in the shop to American humorist Evan Esar, but a cursory Google suggests a lack of consensus on its original author. There is an entire blog post tracing the origins of the quote and its variations, which concludes that it can originally be traced back to media personality Fred Waring in 1949, but that it has been recycled by many comedians and humorists, and isn’t worth attributing to Waring as it was likely penned for him to deliver by a since-forgotten third party anyway. You can check out the blog here, other quotes are available. Putting to one side the precise authorship of the quote, it’s one that holds a lot of truth, especially when considering the output of Channel 5. G
All Kinos Great and Small: Archives, Musings, Picnic at Hanging Rock Restoration.
Jan 24, 2025 · original
I’m not at Flicks so much these days. I moved to London to do a film MA, which is so far proving nice and useful for shoving more cine-stuff into my brain. For the past couple of weeks, we’ve been looking at the politics of film archiving, or, on a reductive but for my purposes sufficient level: what gets archived and what doesn’t. The video shop’s collection has always been vastly restricted to films with BBFC certified physical releases. This is reducing further with the rise of digitised media, compounded by budgetary requirements meaning that we can’t buy anything and everything quite as liberally as we once could. Our physical archive is narrowing, yet the 21,000 odd collection still provides a more solidly consistent base of films than you can get hold of legally on much of the internet. I’m not getting into all this to lament the past of video shops. As much as I love handling DVD
PSA: Flicks WordPress 2025 is GO!
Dec 30, 2024 · original
Hello! This is a very short post that I am making as I get to grips with how WordPress works. My name’s Daisy, and I worked regularly at Flicks from 2018 until earlier this year, when I moved to London to find fame and fortune and further my student debt pursuing a film MA. Though I find it hard to stay away from the video shop for too long, the 100 miles between us means that, with the upcoming exception of the first week of January, I am generally not there any more. As a result, I have decided to resurrect the flicks blog for the purposes of writing about films from the archive, advance screenings I have snuck into, and other video shop adjacent musings that I think are worth inflicting on the video renting general public of the 21st Century. Posts prior to this one were written by film critic and former flicks worker Tara Judah, apart from the very effusive one I wrote aged 16, follo
Best of 2017 – Flicks’ style
Dec 1, 2017 · original
It’s been an absolutely brilliant year for film, with blockbusters and indie titles bringing us all manner of glee for months. But we know some of you may have missed a few, so we thought we’d help you catch up! This year, the three of us put together some thoughts on our favourite films released on DVD in 2017. DAVE TAYLOR’S PICKS: Toni Erdmann Hunt for the Wilder People Personal Shopper Hidden Figures Twin Peaks 3 (out on DVD and in the shop next week!) “Honourable mentions go to Get Out, The Villainess, Dispossessed: The Great Housing Swindle, Hell or High Water and Elle. My top five are films that I either immensely enjoyed watching at the time ( Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Hidden Figures ), or films I kinda liked while watching them and was still thinking about days later. On the second – or third! – watch, their inscrutability developed into something much more affecting and they ha
Introduction To… BERGMAN!
Sep 25, 2017 · original
It’s been a while so we thought we’d best run another Course in the Kino! But this time we we’re doing something a little different… Do you wish you knew more about Ingmar Bergman? Tired of pretending you’re a Swedish cinephile? Tire no more! Join Dr Walsh for our very first’ Introduction To’ course in the Kino! Saturday Nov 4th and 11th 10am-midday Introduction To: Ingmar Bergman, with Dr Peter Walsh. Ingmar Bergman is a colossal name that almost hangs over popular cinema, a name many recognise but only a few dare comment on. Some might even whisper that he’s almost impenetrable, but that’s not the case! Over fifty years, Bergman shaped not only Swedish cinema and theatre, but also left an indelible mark on what we regard as art-house cinema, and influenced a slew of the century’s most important filmmakers. Considering the historical and national issues at play in his films, this introd
Encounters Short Film Festival + A Little Bit at Flicks
Sep 18, 2017 · original
Kicking off on Tuesday night, Encounters Short Film Festival is back, now in its 23rd year. We love Encounters at the video shop and we are SUPER EXCITED to announce that there’ll even be a little bit of the festival here at Flicks. WHAT’S IN THE SHOP Perpetual Cinema: From 1pm – 6pm Wednesday through Sunday this week (20th-24th) we’ll have a running loop of short films showing in the Kino and it’s FREE* to attend! AVA Festival Archive: A brand new terminal has landed in the shop and it’s been specially jam-packed with Encounters archives so you can enjoy even more Encounters after your screenings. *The Kino seats a maximum of 11 people at any one time A VERY SPECIAL SCREENING + Q&A We watch a lot of films at Flicks and our eagle eyes love to tell you when we see something remarkable. Having had the absolute pleasure of already seeing Mark Jenkin’s Bronco’s House (2015), I can hand-on-he
GET OUT
Jul 24, 2017 · original
Though we all watch a lot of movies in here, we don’t often get to see stuff together – such is the nature of #videoshoplife that we usually watch movies at home and reconvene in the video shop to talk ’em over, disagree wildly and lovingly mock each other’s opinions. But, every now and again, we manage a shop outing to the cinema and see something together after scoffing burgers at Five Guys (the video shop cliche is real). One movie I really wanted us to see as a sort-of video shop posse this year was Jordan Peele’s GET OUT. Partially, my motivation came after Liz Chege of Come the Revolution recommended it to me (she has great taste in film). It was also partially motivated by the age old decider of genre: most video shop clerks have cross-over taste when it comes to horror. Of course, when I say we went as a video shop posse, I should clarify that it’s a hap-hazard crew, made up of s
From One Side of Counter t’Other
Jul 2, 2017 · original
Last week we had a work experience placement at 20th Century Flicks. We take very few student placements and have reached our capacity for 2017. At the end of the week, we asked Daisy to tell us a little something about her experience in the shop and this is what she had to say: I began my week at 20th Century Flicks with a fairly good idea of what to expect. I have been visiting the shop regularly for a while now, during which time I have gotten to know the ‘licensed video rental personnel’ quite well. I found this very helpful, as it allowed me to skip past the awkward “Oh hi, you must be Stacey,” “No, it’s Daisy, like the flower,” stage and get on to the real talk, on to subjects such as how safe it is to open superglue with your teeth [Ed’s note: obviously it isn’t!], if customers looking for ’70s (MISOGYNISTIC) erotica were renting them ironically, and what on EARTH that awful smell
National Cinema(s)
May 31, 2017 · original
I recently finished a six week course on National Cinema(s), which was hosted by 20 th Century Flicks: Bristol’s last remaining video rental shop (it also has a cinema room that can be hired and is home to two adorable cats – what more could you want from life?) The big question, going into this course, was, ‘What is National Cinema?’ and over the next six weeks my fellow classmates and I attempted to answer this through film screenings and discussions, each one organised around a particular national focus (British, Australian, Swedish, Venezuelan, Kenyan, European/Borderless). While the economics of a film’s production and distribution is arguably the biggest factor in determining which ‘national cinema’ it falls into, I was very much fascinated by the discussions around the filmic content and the idea of ‘national genres’, or to put it more crudely, what type of films do we associate w

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