Desert Hearts (Blu-Ray)

One American national treasure portraying another, as Tom Hanks dons the red cardigan of children’s TV presenter Fred Rogers. His earnest goodwill and emotional warmth in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood raised a generation, but when journalist Lloyd (Matthew Rhys) sets out to write a profile, he is keen to scratch beneath the persona.  Marielle Heller […]

Det är tidig morgon. Solen går sakta upp över Louisianas vidsträckta träskmarker när lugnet bryts av en trupp hemvärnsmän. Fullt fältutrustade brakar de ut i vildmarken för en övning med lösa skott. Men de är inte ensamma i träsket. Lek blir plötsligt blodigt allvar när fienden ger sig till känna i en skur av skarpa […]

Jude Law and Diane Keaton star in this drama that was created and directed by Paolo Sorrentino (Youth, The Great Beauty). Lenny Belardo, aka Pius XIII, is the first American Pope in history. Young and charming, his election might seem the result of a simple and effective media strategy by the College of Cardinals. But, […]

In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no corrida), by the always provocative Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, remains one of the most controversial films of all time. Based on a true incident, it graphically depicts the all-consuming, transcendent—but ultimately destructive—love of a man and a woman (Tatsuya Fuji and Eiko Matsuda) living in an era […]

André Leon Talley has been a fixture in the world of fashion for so long that it’s difficult to imagine a time when he wasn’t defining the boundaries of great style.  Kate Novack’s intimate portrait, The Gosp​el According to André takes viewers on an emotional journey from André’s roots growing up in the segregated […]

A senator’s daughter has been kidnapped. The authorities can do nothing. So ex-soldier Joe (Joaquin Phoenix), who has a reputation for resolving impossible situations, is contracted to return the girl safely home. However, things don’t quite go to plan in this stripped-down psychological thriller by Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin). Phoenix has […]

En förbjuden relation mellan tjänsteflickan Sada och hennes husbonde får ett tragiskt slut – en verklig händelse som skakade kejsardömet Japan 1936. När japanska nya vågen-regissören Nagisa Oshima tolkade den gripande historien

Michael Pearce’s hugely impressive debut is an unsettling thriller that holds you in suspense until its final moments. Moll (Jessie Buckley) is 27 and still living at home, stifled by the small island community around her and too beholden to her family to break away. When she meets Pascal, a free-spirited stranger, a whole new […]