The Endless (Blu-Ray)

Peter Turner met Hollywood legend Gloria Grahame at a London lodging in the late 1970s. They fell in love and embarked on an intense if short-lived affair. Paul McGuigan’s touching film, based on Turner’s memoir, recalls that time and their subsequent encounter in Liverpool a few years later. It’s a beautiful and evocative drama, with […]

Melissa McCarthy stars in the adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats) Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) who made her living in the 1970’s and 80’s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee is […]

Dansfilmens okrönte kung, Fred Astaire, bjuder upp Charlie Chaplins dåvarande fru och motspelerska Paulette Goddard – och får tuff konkurrens av dubbelt Oscarnominerade Burgess Meredith, mest känd  som Rocky Balboas tränare Mickey i Sylvester Stallones Rocky-filmer! Danny O’Neill (Astaire) och Hank Taylor (Meredith) spelar båda trumpet i en liten orkester på sitt college, och trivs […]

Detta är den sanna och skakande historien om familjen Braude – den löftesrike boxaren Charles som just träffat kvinnan i sitt liv, hans bröder Isak och Harry samt föräldrarna Sara och Benzel. Huvudrollen innehas av

From filmmaker Mark Cousins (Story of Film: An Odyssey) comes his epic new documentary, Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema. Presented as a guide on how to make a film, it’s presented in thematic chapters, using examples from 183 woman filmmakers from around the world. Includes narration from Tilda Swinton, Debra Winger, […]

En natt mördas en patient på Sabbatsbergs sjukhus. Ett synnerligen våldsamt mord med bajonett. Martin Beck sätts på fallet, vilket kompliceras av att den mördade är en före detta polis. Spåren leder snabbt åt ett håll som gör att Beck och hans kollegor nu hamnar i skottlinjen. Samtidigt någonstans i Stockholm klättrar en tungt beväpnad […]

Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) and Albin (Michel Serrault)—a middle-aged gay couple who are the manager and star performer at a glitzy drag club in Saint-Tropez—agree to hide their sexual identities, along with their flamboyant personalities and home decor, when the ultraconservative parents of Renato’s son’s fiancée come for a visit. This elegant comic scenario kicks off […]

We will rock you! A biopic of Freddie Mercury of Queen was maybe a biopic you didn’t know you wanted. That is until you get into the cinema for a foot-stamping, heart-beating, joy-rousing film that captures the birth of the original super-group and their flamboyant larger than life stage presence, here played by Rami Malek. […]