The Ballad of Lefty Brown

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 […]

The Technicolor expressionism of Douglas Sirk reached a fever pitch with this operatic tragedy, which finds the director pushing his florid visuals and his critiques of American culture to their subversive extremes. Alcoholism, nymphomania, impotence, and deadly jealousy—these are just some of the toxins coursing through a massively wealthy, degenerate Texan oil family. When a […]

This compilation of five early short films by Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver) offers a fascinating window onto his artistic development. Spanning the years from Scorsese’s time at NYU in the mid-1960s to the late ’70s, when he was emerging as one of the era’s most electrifying talents, Scorsese Shorts centers on the intimate home movie […]

Deep within the Zone, a bleak and devastated forbidden landscape, lies a mysterious room with the power to grant the deepest wishes of those strong enough to make the hazardous journey there. Desperate to reach it, a scientist and a writer approach the Stalker, one of the few able to navigate the Zone s menacing […]

A harrowing drama set during the Salvadoran Civil War, Salvador is a one of director Oliver Stone’lauras most underrated films, a thrilling and violent look at the chaos of war as seen through the lens of an amoral photojournalist. In 1980, young men, women and children are being brutally killed in a bloody civil war […]

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 […]

Michael Curtiz brings a master skipper’s hand to the helm of this thriller, Hollywood’s second crack at Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not. John Garfield stars as Harry Morgan, an honest charter-boat captain who, facing hard times, takes on dangerous cargo to save his boat, support his family, and preserve his dignity. Left in […]

Att veta för mycket är fullkomligt livsfarligt… Duval har blivit arbetslös efter att ha bränt ut sig av all stress. När han får ett erbjudande om ett lite mer stillsamt jobb – att transkribera avlyssning – tackar han ja utan att göra någon större efterforskning om organisationen som anställer honom. Duval tar sig stoiskt an […]