L’Avventura (Blu-Ray)

We will rock you! A biopic of Freddie Mercury of Queen was maybe a biopic you didn’t know you wanted. That is until you get into the cinema for a foot-stamping, heart-beating, joy-rousing film that captures the birth of the original super-group and their flamboyant larger than life stage presence, here played by Rami Malek. […]

I Stockholm citys neonkalla ljus glider Sofi, 15 år, omkring i blond peruk och raggar upp torskar. I det sjaskiga rum som vännen Pia och hennes hallick hyr ut särar hon på benen för dem. Sen tar hon bussen hem till föräldrarna i det slumrande villasamhället. ”Hade du trevligt som barnvakt?”, frågar de. De fattar […]

Splice the mainbrace for this intense chamber piece set on a remote lighthouse post in 1890s New England. Ephraim (Robert Pattinson) arrives to play second mate to lighthouse keeper Thomas (Willem Dafoe). The two men start by needling each other about cooking and chores, but things take a turn for the unhinged, as Ephraim’s past […]

While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft (Richard Roundtree, in a career-defining role), a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals […]

After years behind bars, Max Dembo faces Straight Time. He hopes it will mean a new life, a job, a place to call home, perhaps even a girl of his own. Instead, it’s a one-way ticket to disaster. Dustin Hoffman plays Max, a freed con trapped by an indifferent criminal system and his self-destructive bent. […]

Säg Dante & Tvärsan till killar som växte upp på 1970-talet och många får något lyriskt i blicken. Bengt Linders 33 böcker om de två deckarna med sin skruvade jargong, sitt vuxenfientliga synsätt och sina anarkistiska metoder slukades av stora skaror och präglade till och med vissa missledda individers fortsatta liv.* Succén var så stor […]

Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling vision of brutal aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O’Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the […]

Winner of Best Director at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden) returns with a seductive romantic thriller that takes his renowned stylistic flair to dizzying new heights. From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon (Park […]