Non Fiction

Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was a cultural […]

“The summer I killed my father, I was ten years old . . .” So begins Kasi Lemmons’s spellbinding feature debut, an evocative journey into the maze of memory, steeped in fragrant southern-gothic atmosphere. In 1960s Louisiana, a young girl (Jurnee Smollett) sees her well-to-do family unravel in the wake of the infidelities of her […]

In June 1971 The New York Times, the Washington Post and the nation’s major newspapers took a brave stand for freedom of speech and reported on the Pentagon Papers, the massive cover-up of government secrets that spanned four decades and four US Presidents. At the time, the Post’s Katherine Graham (Meryl Streep) was still finding […]

Vietnam 1964, några år innan USAs massiva krigsmaskin rullar in med full styrka. Men för den ärrade major Barker är kriget redan en mardröm. Med bara en liten trupp unga soldater och några sydvietnameser till foga är hans uppdrag att försvara en utpost i Muc Wa. Föga strategiskt intressant, men nu har de överordnade bestämt […]

From visionary director Todd Haynes (Carol, Far From Heaven) and based on the critically acclaimed booked by Brian Selznick, Wonderstruck is an enchanting story of discovery and belonging starring long-time Haynes collaborater Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams and newcomers Oakes Fegley and Millicent Simmonds. Ben (Oakes Fegley) and Rose (Millicent Simmonds) are two deaf children from different […]

En krokodil med tandvärk, en närsynt häst, en plattfotad räv och en knuffodrag (en tvåhövdad lama alltså, det vet väl alla)… Alla får de hjälp av den vänlige doktor Dolittle, som lärt sig 498 djurspråk av sin kloka papegoja (som pratar allt, utom goja!). Och givetvis är gojan med på expeditionen när Dolittle sjösätter sin […]

Ridley Scott’s follow-up to Prometheus – the first prequel in the Alien saga – promises to deliver a larger piece in the jigsaw puzzle that unites this universe with Ripley’s future worlds. A crew arrive on a seemingly unpopulated planet, but soon discover, perhaps a little too late, that similar life forms have been present there for […]

Redford plays a reader for U.S. intelligence who becomes a hunted man after he is not among the victims of a mass murder of his colleagues. Faye Dunaway does solid work as……