Memory: The Origins of Alien [+ Art Cards]

Martin Scorsese’s cinematic mastery is on full display in this sweeping crime saga, which serves as an elegiac summation of his six-decade career. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran (Taxi Driver’s Robert De Niro) looks back from a nursing home on his life’s journey through the ranks […]

Drawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, director Steve Loveridge s Sundance award winning Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. is a startlingly personal profile of the critically acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star.  She began as Matangi. Daughter of the founder of […]

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is the visually spectacular new adventure film from Luc Besson, the legendary director of The Professional, The Fifth Element and Lucy, based on the ground-breaking comic book series which inspired a generation of artists, writers and filmmakers. In the 28th century, Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara […]

Under videoerans glansdagar var det framför allt två actionfilmer som utmärkte sig i Sverige – The Octagon med Chuck Norris och The Exterminator i regi av James Glickenhaus. Gemensamt var att de var mycket mer våldsamma än vad vi var vana vid

40 år av ömsesidig beundran, konstnärlig tävlan och djup vänskap. Som tonåringar delade de allt – hopp, tvivel, rädslor och ambitioner, drömmen om ära och rikedom. Att Paul Cézanne kom från en rik familj och Émile Zola från en fattig gjorde ingen skillnad. Tillsammans lämnade de Aix en-Provence för Paris – Montmartre och Batignolles. Där […]

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach is a funny, provocative and revealing account of the life and career of one of Britain’s foremost filmmakers, Ken Loach, as he turns eighty and looks back at over fifty years of filmmaking, encompassing classics such as Kes (1969) and The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Palme […]

Fúsi är en lika vänlig som väldig 43-åring som fortfarande är oskuld och bor hemma hos mamma. Mesta tiden lyssnar han på hårdrock och leker krig med sina tennsoldater. På jobbet blir han ständigt utsatt för övergrepp. Hans liv går helt i grått. Men så möter han Hera, en liten och sprallig tjej som fyller […]

Where does evil begin? Is it rooted in the experiences of childhood? That’s the question at the heart of this dazzling, hugely ambitious study in tyranny. Actor turned director Brady Corbett offers up a sumptuous yet unconventional period drama that examines the roots of fascism, starring Liam Cunningham, Robert Pattinson and Bérénice Bejo.