Memory: The Origins of Alien [+ Art Cards]

A young woman in a small Kansas town survives a drag race accident, then agrees to take a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. En route, she is haunted by a bizarre apparition that compels her toward an abandoned lakeside pavilion. Made by industrial filmmakers on a small budget, the eerily effective […]

In his anarchic debut feature, Boots Riley sets fire to the modern world and blasts off to brilliantly original territory. Starring Lakeith Stanfield (Get Out, Atlanta) and Tessa Thompson (Thor: Ragnarok, Creed), this is 2018’s most timely feature. Cash (Stanfield) is a black call centre worker, who is asked to ‘sound white’ in order to […]

Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Dheepan) makes his first English-language film with this revisionist Western set in 1851. Eli (John C. Reilly) and Charlie Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix) are brothers and assassins, on the trail of a chemist (Riz Ahmed) who has a formula that can highlight gold in rivers. A detective (Jake Gyllenhaal) is hot on […]

The Crown, created by Peter Morgan, follows Queen Elizabeth through the late 1950s and early ‘60s as she struggles to navigate a world that’s changing around her. She must face the challenges of a new era, from the Suez Canal crisis to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, while preserving both the monarchy and her […]

The latest from the unique imagination of Peter Strickland (The Duke of Burgundy), In Fabric is a typically distinctive, idiosyncratic and evocative tale that blends Giallo-infused horror with absurdist dark humour, to ghostly effect.  Set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period at a mysterious Thames Valley department store, the film follows […]

Mysterious and deeply moving, Monster is a breathtaking piece of cinema from master director Hirokazu Kore-eda (Broker, Shoplifters). When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, single mother Saori knows that there is something wrong. Discovering that one of his teachers might be responsible, she storms into the school demanding answers. But as the […]

Den japanska maffian, den så kallade yakuzan, breder ut sig alltmer i USA. FBI-agenten Nick David får i uppdrag att infiltrera organisationen och lyckas rädda livet på en av ledarna, vilket gör att han som första amerikan någonsin blir invald i det blodiga brödraskapet. Samtidigt som Nick deltar i kriget mellan yakuzan och maffian börjar […]

Redemption is the long game in Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter. Told with Schrader’s trademark cinematic intensity, the revenge thriller tells the story of an ex-military interrogator turned gambler haunted by the ghosts of his past decisions, and features riveting performances from stars Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan and Willem Dafoe.