About us
We go and see the best and most interesting films around.
We usually meet for a while before the film to eat or drink, chat about what's been happening, and to discuss the films we've already seen.
Upcoming events
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Oscars Movie Meetup — Sinners — Meet from 7:15, film at 8:30
Meet in the café / bar, Watershed, 1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX, GB"... exhilarating, blood-soaked vampire flick ... supernatural and political ..."
★★★★ Christina Newland, i NewsWe're going to see Ryan Coogler's Sinners, just days before the 2026 Oscars.
We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/bar from 7:15 pm, to say hello and chat. Afterwards, we will stop for a few minutes to talk about the film.
Buy your own ticket from the box office or online.
ABOUT THE FILM
1930s Mississippi. Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again by setting up a blues club. Things seems to be going well for the pair, only for them to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
— Watershed summary"it’s a sweltering, sexy southern gothic horror, a blues-infused vampire flick in which the music flows as freely as the blood."
★★★★ Wendy Ide, The Observer"Sinners Is a Bloody and Bracing Study of History, With Vampires"
★★★★ Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair"A wild Southern Gothic horror, an utterly thrilling oddity"
★★★★ Robbie Collin, The Telegraph13 attendees
Bonus Movie — Long Day's Journey Into Night - meet from 4:30 pm, film at 5:30
Meet in the café / bar, Watershed, 1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX, GB" The unexpected love child of Wong Kar-wai and Andrei Tarkovsky ..."
We're going to see Bi Gan's 2018 film Long Day's Journey Into Night.
We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/bar from 4:30 pm, to say hello and chat. Afterwards, there will be time to sit and talk about the film.
Buy your own ticket from the box office or online.
ABOUT THE FILM
A man returns to the hometown he fled many years before, and searches for a lost love who continues to haunt him.
... a ravishing and rapturous fever dream leads us on a nocturnal, labyrinthine voyage, one that both reveals and conceals a world of passion and intrigue...
Spellbinding. A flat out masterpiece
★★★★★ Jordan Ruimy, The PlaylistA mind blowing cinematographic journey
★★★★★ Fabien Lemercier, CineEuropaStaggering. A remarkable new kind of filmmaking experience
★★★★★ Eric Kohn, IndieWireImpossible to describe. And even more impossible to forget
★★★★★ Emily Yoshida, Vulture... a moment of breathtaking romanticism that’s as intoxicating as it is unexpected
★★★★★ Glenn Kenny, The New York Times2 attendees
Movie Meetup — The Love That Remains — Meet from 7:15 pm, film at 8:20
Meet in the café / bar, Watershed, 1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX, GB"Wise and lyrical and strange ..."
We're going to see Hlynur Pálmason's new film The Love That Remains .
We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/bar from 7:15 pm, to say hello and chat. Afterwards, we will stop for a few minutes to talk about the film.
Buy your own ticket from the box office or online.
** The film is scheduled for Cinema 2. It may sell out. **
ABOUT THE FILM
"Hlynur Pálmason's surrealist Icelandic dramedy captures a year in the life of a family, as a separating couple navigate their changing relationship while co-parenting their three children (played by the director's own children).
Through intimate vignettes and playful and heartfelt moments, the film portrays a raw and naturalistic view of family life in rural Iceland, and the bittersweet nature of faded love and shared memories amidst the changing seasons."
— Watershed Summary"Godland director Hlynur Pálmason’s inventive fourth feature is a witty yet tender portrait of a year in the life of a family whose parents are navigating their separation. Punctuated with humour (including scenes of outrageous mansplaining and serious self-sabotage), quirky fantasy and a scene-stealing family dog, the film elegantly portrays the bittersweet realities of negotiating faded love’s new normal."
— Sarah Lutton, BFI"Spiraling into surrealism as ordered lives and minds unravel, Pálmason’s fourth feature is an album of achingly felt, morbidly funny and increasingly haywire scenes from a marriage. Though very different in form and focus from the director’s 2022 stunner Godland, the new film shares with its predecessor an airy, understated precision of image, a fixation with the changeable moods of the rural Icelandic landscape and a dry, peculiar wit rooted in perverse curiosities of human behavior."
★★★★ Guy Lodge, Variety3 attendees
NT Live — Arthur Miller's All My Sons — Meet from 7, starts at 8
Meet in the café / bar, Watershed, 1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX, GB" ...magnificent, shuddering production of Miller’s play..."
★★★★★ Arifa Akbar, The GuardianWe're going to see Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, directed by Ivo Van Hove, with Bryan Cranston, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Paapa Essiedu, Tom Glynn-Carney and Hayley Squires.
This an NT Live production, filmed at Wyndham’s Theatre.
We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/bar from 6 pm, to say hello and chat. After the film, we will stop for a while to share thoughts and reactions.
Buy your own ticket from the box office or online.
**This is quite likely to sell out. Get a ticket early to make sure that you don't miss out**ABOUT THE PLAY
"A tremendous cast gives each exchange authenticity. Tom Glynn-Carney, as the explosive outsider, quivers memorably in his hoodie. Marianne Jean-Baptiste is remarkable: driven by sentimentality but never mushy, hardened by the need to blind herself to the truth. Bryan Cranston unravels and shrivels as the patriarch from bluff geniality through blazered spryness to gaunt agitation. Paapa Essiedu is superb. Lolloping, as if he is moving in water, gentle in speech, he has the sweet air of an idealist, but the complicated emotions of a hero. Here is acting and a production that takes Miller ... into essential truth-telling."
— Susannah Clapp, The Observer"The whole thing plays out symphonically, building to an astonishing crescendo. Right near the end, Joe finally says the play’s name, its meaning clear at last. When I’ve seen the play before, there’s been no special reaction. Here, the audience gasped."
★★★★★ Andrzej Lukowski, Time Out“an astonishing, deeply moving piece of theatre”
★★★★★ Nick Curtis, Evening Standard)7 attendees
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