1900 – Novecento (Blu-Ray)

One of the lesser-known Powell and Pressburger collaborations. During the Second World War, scientist Sammy Rice (David Farrar) works at a British research unit set up to solve the enemy’s methods of attack. Embittered after losing a foot in a bomb blast, Sammy is increasingly seeking solace in drink However, a budding romance with his […]

Offering an experience of the First World War like no other, Sam Mendes (Skyfall) retells a true episode from the Great War in this supremely immersive race against the clock. Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) and Schofield (George MacKay) are picked to deliver a message across enemy lines. If they fail to arrive on time, hundreds of […]

Collection of films directed by acclaimed Russian film-maker, Andrei Tarkovsky. Ivan’s Childhood (1962) explores the life of a 12-year-old boy, Ivan (Nikolai Burlyayev), who is orphaned after his family are killed by the Nazis during the Second World War. He later joins a partisan group who use his diminutive stature and agility to gather intelligence. Worried […]

Billy Connolly is at the peak of his powers in this newly restored and rediscovered documentary. Capturing ‘The Big Yin’ on and off stage during his 1975 tour of Ireland, Big Banana Feet is a captivating record of Connolly on the cusp of international stardom. Inspired by the fly-on-the-wall style of DA Pennebaker’s Bob Dylan […]

After directing two of the most extraordinary movies of the 1970s, Badlands and Days of Heaven,American artist Terrence Malick disappeared from the film world for twenty years, only to resurface in 1998 with this visionary adaptation of James Jones’s 1962 novel about the World War II battle for Guadalcanal. A big-budget, spectacularly mounted epic, The […]

Italienska Gabriele Muccino (The Pursuit of Happyness) har inspirerats av både Ettore Scola (Vi som älskade varann så mycket) och Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita) i denna nostalgiska och varma historia om

As an unidentified virus sweeps the country, the Korean government declares martial law. As the country descends into chaos, one city, Busan, is rumoured to have successfully fended off the virus outbreak and remains the only beacon of hope for those not yet infected. But when the virus breaks out on an express train to […]

The story of Fred Hampton, the gifted civil rights leader who rose through the Black Panther party to became chairman of the Chicago chapter, is often missing from history. And even lesser known is the role that petty criminal and FBI informant William O’Neal played in his downfall. Director Shaka King tells both their stories […]