The Lost City Of Z (Blu-Ray)

A runaway hit on the London stage, Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman recreate their drama for the screen, replete with its unerring sense of dread. Phillip Goodman, professor of psychology and self-styled ‘belief buster’ has his rationality tested to the hilt when he receives a letter apparently from beyond the grave. His mentor Charles Cameron, the […]

Året är 1988. På väg in till en rockkonsert stöter Alexis och hennes sexiga heavy metal-kompisar ihop med tre grabbar och bjuder in dem till fest i sin pappas brackiga sommarhus. Platsen ligger ödsligt beläget och bara det kan ge kalla kårar, men ännu värre är att trakten nyligen drabbats av en rad sataniska ritualmord. […]

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, […]

In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding’s legendary novel about the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center. Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of the Flieswith an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of […]

The most savagely subversive film by the iconoclastic auteur Luchino Visconti employs the mechanics of deliriously stylized melodrama to portray Nazism’s total corruption of the soul. In the wake of Hitler’s ascent to power, the wealthy industrialist von Essenbeck family and their associates—including the scheming social climber Friedrich (Dirk Bogarde), the conniving matriarch Sophie (Ingrid […]

If you’ve seen the trailer, you have some idea of what lies in store in Jordan Peele’s follow-up to his brilliant runaway hit Get Out. While on holiday, an African American family come face-to-face with demonic doppelgangers who are hell-bent on killing them.  Once again, Peele has more in mind than mere entertainment. Us […]

Billi (Awkwafina) is called back from New York to her native China because her beloved grandmother is facing her last days. Yet, in accordance with tradition, this news is kept from the matriarch herself. Keeping up the pretence of a family wedding while reconnecting and grieving, we follow Billi on a funny, deeply moving exploration […]

This year marks the 120th anniversary of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu’s birth. From his early silent films to his final features in the 1960s, Ozu perfected a style that stripped away unnecessary plot mechanics and camera movement. In doing so, he produced a cinema whose surface simplicity belies character studies of depth, warmth and on […]