Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

Steven Spielberg’s much-anticipated new adventure – an adaptation of Ernest Cline’s hugely popular 2011 sci-fi novel – is the perfect vehicle for Hollywood’s supreme entertainer. The future is a dystopia of a never-ending city. To escape it, millions enter the virtual world of OASIS. Its creator has planted an Easter Egg somewhere in this world […]

Julieta bor i Madrid med sin dotter Antía. De båda lider i tystnad sedan Julietas man och Antías pappa omkommit till havs. Men ibland för inte sorg människor närmare varandra, utan längre isär. När Antía fyller arton år lämnar hon sin mamma

One of the most influential and revered figures in all of cinema, Friedrich Wilheim Murnau came to prominence in the first half of the 1920s with a diverse string of productions ranging from buoyant satire to swirling psychological drama. Five key works are presented here: Schloß Vogelöd, Phantom, Die Finanzen des Großherzogs (The Grand Duke’s Finances), Der Letzte Mann (The Last […]

Ruth kan inte hjälpa att hon måste mörda. Det är hennes ofödda misantropiska barn som tvingar henne, och som anser att det är samhällets fel att hen inte har någon far. Barnet kommunicerar med Ruth genom livmodern, och lär henne hur hon ska snärja och till slut mörda de intet ont anande offren. I en […]

Fifteen years before Stranger Things combined science-fiction, Spielberg-ian touches and 80s nostalgia to much acclaim, Richard Kelly set the template and the high-water mark with his debut feature, Donnie Darko

Don Cheadle directs and stars as Miles Davis in this biopic about the influential jazz musician. The film begins in the late 1970s during a dark and troubled time of Davis’s life in which, after giving up performing, he mostly lived as a recluse in his Upper West Side apartment in New York. When insistent […]

Jean Renoir’s ruthless love triangle tale, his second sound film, is a true precursor to his brilliantly bitter The Rules of the Game, displaying all of the filmmaker’s visual genius and fully imbued with

Two-time Oscar winner and star of Downton Abbey, Dame Maggie Smith, recreates one of her most celebrated roles – the singular Miss Shepherd – in The Lady in the Van, Alan Bennett’s big-screen comedic adaptation of his own iconic memoir and honoured stage play. Based on the true story, Miss Shepherd was a woman of uncertain […]