The Villainess

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 […]

Med uppsåt att lura Lady Hideko på hennes förmögenhet lyckas unga Sook-Hee få anställning hos henne som kammarjungfru. Men oväntade känslor uppstår mellan dem, samtidigt som mannen bakom komplotten visar sig ha helt andra planer för Sook-Hee. Alla lurar alla i sydkoreanske mästerregissören Park Chan-wooks queera thriller noir, baserad på Sarah Waters ”Fingersmith”. En psykologisk […]

A strange malady afflicts a small rural village, transforming some of the sick into killers. Confounded by the crimes, a local police officer resorts to the council of a shaman to figure out what is happening and how to stop it. Hong-jin Na’s tense and hugely enjoyable supernatural thriller profits from its air of paranoia […]

Widely regarded as the greatest martial arts epic of all time, A Touch of Zen won awards worldwide (including at Cannes), smashed box-office records and had an incalculable influence on the genre as a whole. An unambitious painter named Gu (Shih Jun) lives with his mother in the vicinity of an abandoned mansion rumoured to be haunted. […]