Chinatown

In Beginners, director Mike Mills offered up a loving portrait of his father. This time it’s the turn of his mother and Annette Bening gives a barnstorming, career-best performance as Dorothea Fields, flawlessly delivering zingers like “Wondering if you’re happy is just a shortcut to being depressed”. Unvarnished and oozing charisma, Bening radiates in this […]

Robert De Niro, John Savage and Christopher Walken star in this Michael Cimino war drama. As Michael (De Niro), Steven (Savage) and Nick (Walken) volunteer to serve in Vietnam, they fail to foresee the horrors that will encapsulate their future lives. When the men are captured by the Vietcong and forced to play Russian roulette […]

How do you raise your children in a modern age? If you are Ben (Viggo Mortensen) then unconventionally is the answer. He’s an off the grid survivalist whose children read books around a campfire and all are proficient in hunting. A tragic event forces them on a road trip to confront some of the traditions […]

WINNER: Special Jury Prize, Venice Film Festival | Best Film, Polish Film Academy Awards In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by Belarusian […]

Judy Garland became one of the undisputed icons of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Yet behind that success was a darker tale, one of innocence exploited. In Rupert Goold’s elegant and probing biopic, Renée Zellwegger delivers a career-defining performance. Battered but not beaten, financial ruin forces Garland to return to the stage. Setting ‘60s London […]

BOMBER OCH GRANATER! Just som det svenska försvaret rustas upp släpper Studio S lös en samling militärkomedier från den gamla goda tiden som visar hur kul tjänstgöring i kronans kläder en gång var. Ett smörgåsbord i fält (och tält!) med virriga fosterlandsförsvarare, hemvärn, spioner, förvecklingar, kärlekstrassel, sång och dans. Ingen av de sex filmerna har […]

In Afghanistan, the ruthless sport of buzkashi is a game of great pride. When Uraz (Omar Sharif, Lawrence of Arabia) breaks his leg and loses he brings shame to his village, especially his father, Tursen (Jack Palance, City Slickers), a former champion. In order to regain his honor, Uraz must learn to ride again and […]

Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New York’s 1960s underground culture, the Velvet Underground redefined music with its at once raw and exalted blend of experimentation and art-damaged rock and roll. In his kaleidoscopic documentary The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes vividly evokes the band’s incandescent world: the […]