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This isn’t based on a true story, this happened. Writer-director Bart Layton (The Imposter) takes the heist movie into bold new territory with this unbelievable but true story of four young men who attempt one of the most audacious art heists in US history.  Barry Keoghan and Evan Peters play two friends from the middle-class […]

There are mad films. And then there are films that exist on a whole different level, whose vision is best described as… crazy. And we don’t just mean the American spelling of ‘color’. Richard Stanley’s long-awaited return to cinema totally fits the bill. The director of early 1990s cult classics Hardware and Dust Devil has […]

Florence Foster Jenkins is the inspirational true story of the eponymous New York heiress and socialite who obsessively pursued her dream of becoming a great singer. The voice Florence (Meryl Streep) heard in her head was divine, but to the rest of the world it was hilariously awful. At private recitals, her devoted husband and […]

One of the most visually striking of all the later silent films, The Man Who Laughs reunites German Expressionism director Paul Leni and cinematographer Gilbert Warrenton from their horror hit the previous year, The Cat and the Canary (1927). Both films are often considered to be among the earliest works of legendary horror classics from […]

En stormig natt rusar en fjortonårig flicka in på polisstationen. Blodig och sönderriven berättar hon hur hon och hennes kusin tagit skydd för regnet i en gränd när en okänd man plötsligt gått till attack med en kökskniv. Skräckslagen har hon tvingats bevittna hur kusinen våldtagits och huggits ihjäl. Inspektör Steve Carella söker upp stadens […]

With excruciating honesty, The Squid and the Whale chronicles the experiences of two young brothers growing up in 1980s Park Slope, Brooklyn, as they navigate the jagged contours of the divorce of their parents, both writers. The acclaimed third feature by Noah Baumbach marked a critical development for the filmmaker as he turned toward an increasingly personal […]

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 […]

1877. On the cusp of turning 40, relentlessly laced into corsets by her exasperated staff, the uptight world of the Austrian monarchy is the last thing Empress Sisi (Vicky Krieps) cares about. Decadence is far more exciting – so she heads off on a grand trip across Europe to call on old friends (and old […]