The Fisher King (Blu-Ray)

Made in Spain while General Franco was still in power and shown clandestinely, Pere Portabella’s extraordinary Vampir Cuadecuc ostensibly follows the filming of Jess Franco’s shocker El conde Dracula (Count Dracula, 1970) starring Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom and the exquisite Soledad Miranda. This experimental ‘making of’ documentary and investigation into the myth of the vampire, […]

Under tiden för andra världskriget är Sonja Wigert en av de starkast lysande stjärnorna på den svenska filmhimlen, omskriven för sitt glamourösa liv. När hennes far fängslas av SS i Norge blir den nazihatiska stjärnan rekryterad av

I juni 1944 är de allierade redo att inleda den gigantiska invasionen av Normandie och pressa tillbaka nazisterna. Men en man står i deras väg – Winston Churchill. Bakom bilden av denna ikoniska hjälte döljer sig en kluven man som är vettskrämd över att upprepa fiaskot 1915 då hundratusen unga soldater miste livet på Gallipolis […]

Following hot on the heels of his recent Jackie, Pablo Larraín’s latest film is a stylised biopic of the Chilean poet, diplomat and politician. Beloved poet Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) is also the most famous communist in post-WWII Chile. When the political tides shift, he is forced underground, with a perseverant police inspector (Gael García […]

Meaning in life is explored through interconnected stories that are described as Black Mirror meets Wild Tales. This makes Agata Alexander’s directorial debut a very intriguing in what looks a cautionary tale about humanity and contact. technology is becoming even more important in our daily lives to a point many people can’t do without it. […]

The gloriously grotesque second feature directed by John Waters (Hairspray) is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema’s most memorably blasphemous moments. Made on a shoestring budget in Waters’ native Baltimore, with the filmmaker taking on nearly every technical task, this gleeful mockery of the peace-and-love ethos of […]

One of Andrei Tarkovsky’s most influential works, a mesmerizing collage of his own memories and dreams A subtly ravishing passage through the halls of time and memory, this sublime reflection on twentieth-century Russian history by Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker) is as much a poem composed in images, or a hypnagogic hallucination, as it is a work […]

A senator’s daughter has been kidnapped. The authorities can do nothing. So ex-soldier Joe (Joaquin Phoenix), who has a reputation for resolving impossible situations, is contracted to return the girl safely home. However, things don’t quite go to plan in this stripped-down psychological thriller by Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin). Phoenix has […]