Ken Loach Collection (Blu-Ray)

Taking a break from helming Star Wars, director Rian Johnson convenes a ridiculous collection of stars in the drawing room for this foul-mouthed and bloody reimagining of an Agatha Christie-style murder mystery. Crime author Harlan (Christopher Plummer) gathers his family at his country pile for his eighty-fifth birthday. However, he doesn’t live to see the […]

A virtuoso World War II espionage thriller directed by Fritz Lang as his follow-up to the noir classic Scarlet Street (and not long after the war itself had ended), Cloak and Dagger is an underrated entry in Lang’s oeuvre, a crackerjack spy saga with a commanding Gary Cooper performance and a wealth of masterful Langian […]

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan deep dives into the life of the tortured Irish vocalist, best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the Pogues, who famously combined traditional Irish music with the visceral energy of punk rock. Featuring unseen archival footage from the band and MacGowan’s family, as well […]

Sverrir Gudnason och Maria Bonnevie i hyllat svensknorskt drama. HEMLIGHETERNA HÅLLER OSS VID LIV 13-åriga Jill kämpar för att hålla ihop familjen när kollapsen är nära. Mamman lider av psykisk ohälsa och orkar bara ta sig upp ur sängen för att ta till flaskan, medan Jill får städa upp efter henne gång på gång. Men […]

Collection of films directed by acclaimed Russian film-maker, Andrei Tarkovsky. Ivan’s Childhood (1962) explores the life of a 12-year-old boy, Ivan (Nikolai Burlyayev), who is orphaned after his family are killed by the Nazis during the Second World War. He later joins a partisan group who use his diminutive stature and agility to gather intelligence. Worried […]

Céline (Juliet Berto), a magician, and Julie (Dominique Labourier), a librarian, meet in Montmartre and wind up sharing the same flat, bed, fiancé, clothes, identity and imagination. Soon, thanks to a magic sweet, they find themselves spectators, then participants, in a Henry James-inspired ‘film-within-the-film’ – a melodrama unfolding in a mysterious suburban house with the […]

A love story about divorce. A marriage coming apart and a family coming together. Marriage Story is a hilarious and harrowing, sharply observed, and deeply compassionate film from the acclaimed writer-director Noah Baumbach. Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson deliver tour-de-force performances as Charlie, a charismatic New York theater director wedded to his work, and Nicole, […]

Following their festival smashes Rumba and Fairy, Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon are back with the whimsical Lost in Paris. Told in their signature vaudeville style, Lost in Paris is a wonderfully composed comedy that evokes the physical humour of Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton. After receiving a letter from her visually impaired (and ever […]