The Blue Dahlia

En varm sommardag är två barn på väg för att bada när de gör en fasansfull upptäckt vid Göta kanal. Bland näckrosor och sjögräs flyter ett naket och lätt blåfärgat kvinnolik. Några minuter senare bromsar polisen in vid platsen. Fallet tilldelas Martin Beck, som snart inser att kvinnan våldtagits och mördats ombord på en av […]

Stanley Kramer followed his Oscar-winning Judgment at Nuremberg with this sobering investigation of American greed. Ah, who are we kidding? It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, about a group of strangers fighting tooth and nail over buried treasure, is the most grandly harebrained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners performed by a nonpareil cast, […]

One of the most singular auteurs of the horror and science fiction genres, David Cronenberg has wowed audiences with his depictions of body transformations and explorations of society, this collection of his early short and feature films shows a master learning his craft and exploring many of the themes that would dominate his most celebrated […]

Spike Lee’s hugely enjoyable and politically timely film uses this unbelievable case to lift a lid on racism in America, both past and present. It’s frequently hilarious, particularly in highlighting the idiocy of the Klan, but never misses a moment to comment on racial inequality.  Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) was a black Colorado […]

In July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President Kennedy’s challenge of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth.” No one who witnessed the lunar landing will ever forget it. Al Reinert’s documentary For All Mankind is the story of the twenty-four men who travelled to the […]

Sarah Waters’s ghostly gothic novel is brought to life in a new film starring Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson and Charlotte Rampling. WWII has ended and Dr Faraday (Gleeson) has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During one hot summer he is called out to attend to a patient at Hundreds Hall. […]

From Peter Hyams, the acclaimed writer/director of Busting, Capricorn One, Outland comes this suspenseful remake of the classic 1952 film noir. Screen legend Gene Hackman stars as an L.A. District Attorney attempting to take an unwilling murder witness (Anne Archer) back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to […]

When DCI Roz Huntley captures a serial killer, AC-12 is alerted to a possible miscarriage of justice. Thandie Newton (Westworld, Crash) stars as DCI Roz Huntley in the fourth series of Jed Mercurio’s critically-acclaimed police corruption drama. In a career-defining case, Roz is under intense pressure from her superiors to apprehend a serial murderer after […]