A Star Is Born

The year is 1997 and in a police state future the island of Manhattan has been turned into a maximum security prison. The rules are simple: once you’re in, you don’t come out. But when the President of the United States (Donald Pleasence) crash lands an escape pod into the centre of the city after […]

Addiction, nonmonogamy, and female sexual liberation: decades before such ideas were widely discussed, Dorothy Arzner, the only woman to work as a director in 1930s Hollywood, brought them to the screen with striking frankness, sophistication, and wit—a mature treatment that stands out even in the pre-Code era. Fredric March (in one of four collaborations with […]

Martin Scorsese and co-screenwriter Jay Cocks’ (The Age of Innocence) adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s acclaimed novel tells the extraordinary tale of two 17th-century Jesuit priests (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) who travel to Japan in search of their mentor (Liam Neeson). He is rumoured to have committed apostasy and turned his back on the church. […]

Melissa McCarthy stars in the adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats) Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) who made her living in the 1970’s and 80’s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee is […]

A young woman in a small Kansas town survives a drag race accident, then agrees to take a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. En route, she is haunted by a bizarre apparition that compels her toward an abandoned lakeside pavilion. Made by industrial filmmakers on a small budget, the eerily effective […]

One of the fastest, funniest, and most quotable films ever made, His Girl Friday stars Rosalind Russell as reporter Hildy Johnson, a standout among cinema’s powerful women. Hildy is matched in force only by her conniving but charismatic editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns (played by the peerless Cary Grant), who dangles the chance for her to scoop her fellow […]

Anderssonskans Kalle är tillbaka i högönsklig välmåga med att terrorisera sin omgivning på Söder. Han spikar fast galoscher, tjuvantänder fyrverkerier, experimenterar med klipulver och får sin mor Anderssonskan att slita sitt hår. Värst utsatt blir förstås kvarterets poliskonstapel Jonsson som bjuds på en hisnande färd i en barnvagn. Men innerst inne har den osnutne lintotten […]

Jim Jarmusch resurrects the gang for his take on the zombie comedy. Bill Murray, Chloë Sevigny and Adam Driver are small town cops working their beat when nature turns on itself, the sun refuses to set and the dead rise from the grave. Putting aside chicken theft, they set out to get to the bottom […]