Grey Gardens (Blu-Ray)

Clio Barnard, one of Britain s most distinctive contemporary filmmakers, follows The Selfish Giant and The Arbor with Dark River, a searing Yorkshire-set drama inspired by Rose Tremain s acclaimed rural novel Trespass. Following the death of her father, Alice (Ruth Wilson, Saving Mr. Banks) returns home for the first time in 15 years, to […]

Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) and Albin (Michel Serrault)—a middle-aged gay couple who are the manager and star performer at a glitzy drag club in Saint-Tropez—agree to hide their sexual identities, along with their flamboyant personalities and home decor, when the ultraconservative parents of Renato’s son’s fiancée come for a visit. This elegant comic scenario kicks off […]

Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, two-time Sundance Grand Jury winner Eugene Jareckis new film takes the King s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America. From Memphis to New York, Las Vegas, and beyond, the journey traces the rise and fall of Elvis as a metaphor for the country he […]

Luca Guadagnino goes for something completely different after the tender and sun-drenched Call Me by Your Name, with a re-envisioning of Dario Argento’s 1977 classic horror. Suspiria sees Guadagnino reunite with serial collaborator Tilda Swinton (previously cast in I Am Love and A Bigger Splash), who plays the artistic director of a world-renowned dance company, with […]

Penelope Spheeris’ The Decline Of Western Civilization was perceived as shocking and outrageous at the time of its original release in 1981 and its two follow-up films were no less extraordinary and….

If you’ve seen the trailer, you have some idea of what lies in store in Jordan Peele’s follow-up to his brilliant runaway hit Get Out. While on holiday, an African American family come face-to-face with demonic doppelgangers who are hell-bent on killing them.  Once again, Peele has more in mind than mere entertainment. Us […]

The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi (A One and a Two . . .), directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang, follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-age father NJ’s tentative flirtations with an old flame or […]

Among the most exciting voices in genre cinema to emerge in recent years, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead return with their third feature, The Endless. Benson and Moorhead play brothers, former members of a crazy UFO death cult , who receive a mysterious video cassette in the mail. The tape contains an eerie calling card […]