The Witch – A New England folktale

Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev makes his feature debut with this haunting, poignant family drama. Teenage brothers Andrei (Vladimir Garin) and Ivan (Ivan Dobronravov) have lived with their mother (Natalya Vdovina) and grandmother (Galina Petrova) for as long as they can remember when their long-lost father (Konstantin Lavronenko) suddenly turns up after a twelve-year absence. While […]

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 […]

With excruciating honesty, The Squid and the Whale chronicles the experiences of two young brothers growing up in 1980s Park Slope, Brooklyn, as they navigate the jagged contours of the divorce of their parents, both writers. The acclaimed third feature by Noah Baumbach marked a critical development for the filmmaker as he turned toward an increasingly personal […]

Två journalister bestämmer sig för att ta sig an lögnerna som fällde Thomas Quick – rättsväsendets, psykiatrins och framför allt hans egna. I början av 2008 kunde ingen tänkas sig att kannibalen och seriemördaren Thomas Quick inte gjort sig skyldig till de åtta fruktansvärda mord han erkänt. Ingen förutom journalisterna Hannes Råstam och Jenny Küttim. […]

The provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s most internationally acclaimed work is this remarkable, visceral, Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector (A Fistful of Dollars’ Gian Maria Volonté, in a commanding performance) investigating a heinous crime—which he committed himself. Both a […]

I manusförfattaren Kata Wéber och regissören Kornél Mundruczós senaste samarbete får vi en triptyk av historier som utspelar sig under olika tidsepoker men alla i skuggan av andra världskriget och förintelsen

Jacques Cousteau var under 1940- till 1970-talet världens ledande havsutforskare. Genom hans filmer och tv-serier fick vi uppleva en värld vi aldrig tidigare sett. I filmen om hans liv, Jacques – Havets utforskare, uppfinner Cousteau ”aqualungan” – den första kommersiellt gångbara dykarutrustningen där inandningsluften inte återanvänds. Utrustningen tas med på skeppet Calypso, där ett manskap […]

Sit back, relax and enjoy the ride! In Bullet Train, Brad Pitt stars as Ladybug, an unlucky assassin determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug’s latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the […]