Beautiful Boy (Blu-Ray)

Made in Spain while General Franco was still in power and shown clandestinely, Pere Portabella’s extraordinary Vampir Cuadecuc ostensibly follows the filming of Jess Franco’s shocker El conde Dracula (Count Dracula, 1970) starring Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom and the exquisite Soledad Miranda. This experimental ‘making of’ documentary and investigation into the myth of the vampire, […]

Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart ride high in this superb comedic western, both a boisterous spoof and a shining example of its genre. As the brawling, rough-and-tumble saloon singer Frenchy, Dietrich shed her exotic love-goddess image and launched a triumphant career comeback, while Stewart cemented his amiable everyman persona, in his first of many westerns, […]

Varje dag korsar mjölkmannen Kosta frontlinjen på en åsna, mitt under det bosnisk-serbiska kriget, för att leverera det vita guldet till soldaterna. Han har lyckats hålla sig undan från kulor och har även tur i kärlek med en kvinna från byn. Tills en mystisk italiensk kvinna anländer och vänder uppochned på hans värld. Så börjar […]

Pedro Almodóvar returns with his latest feature, Parallel Mothers. Two women, Janis and Ana, meet in a hospital where they are about to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, has no regrets and is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared and repentant. Janis tries to encourage her […]

John Goodman är oförglömlig som Lawrence Woolsey, som kalkerats efter verklighetens B-filmslegend William Castle. Bakom kameran står Joe Dante, vars djupa kärlek till film firat triumfer

A runaway hit on the London stage, Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman recreate their drama for the screen, replete with its unerring sense of dread. Phillip Goodman, professor of psychology and self-styled ‘belief buster’ has his rationality tested to the hilt when he receives a letter apparently from beyond the grave. His mentor Charles Cameron, the […]

När Maddalena Paradine anklagas för att ha giftmördat sin förmögne man anlitar hon den berömde advokaten Anthony Keane, som snabbt förälskar sig i den gåtfulla skönheten. Samtidigt som den rafflande rättegången drar igång gör deras olovliga relation att Keanes juridiska och allmänna omdöme börjar svikta. Är det i själva verket en mördare som han förälskat […]

Michael Cimino’s epic masterpiece The Deer Hunter has been stunningly restored with a brand new 4k restoration. Winner of no less than five Academy Awards in 1978 including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor for Christopher Walken, The Deer Hunter is widely acknowledged as one of cinema’s great masterpieces and contains some of […]