Tom of Finland

As an unidentified virus sweeps the country, the Korean government declares martial law. As the country descends into chaos, one city, Busan, is rumoured to have successfully fended off the virus outbreak and remains the only beacon of hope for those not yet infected. But when the virus breaks out on an express train to […]

Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, New York, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot. An impossibly intimate portrait, this 1976 documentary by Albert and […]

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 […]

John Waters made bad taste perversely transcendent with the forever shocking counterculture sensation Pink Flamingos, his most infamous and daring cinematic transgression. Outré diva Divine is iconic as the wanted criminal hiding out with her family of degenerates in a trailer outside Baltimore while reveling in her tabloid notoriety as the “Filthiest Person Alive.” When […]

Fahrijes make har varit försvunnen sedan kriget i Kosovo och familjen har det svårt att få vardagen att gå runt. För att tjäna ihop brödfödan startar Fahrije en affärsverksamhet genom att sälja hemmagjord ajvar, men hennes ambitioner och försök till att stärka sig själv och andra kvinnor ses inte med blida ögon i den patriarkala […]

Caravaggio var en omtalad, uppburen men också mycket kontroversiell konstnär redan under sin alltför korta livstid. När han målade sina berömda tavlor, ofta med motiv från den kristna mytologin

Fyra kvinnor. Fyra fragment ur ett liv. Ett öde. En liten flicka från landet, fångad i en tragisk katt-och-råttalek. En tonåring som flyr in i närmaste famn, eftersom allt är bättre än hemma. En flicka som flyttar till Paris och blir centrum för en rånkupp. Och till sist kvinnan som äntligen tror sig vara säker, […]

Aloof teenage Japanese tourists, a frazzled Italian widow, and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in the city of dreams—which, in Mystery Train, from Jim Jarmusch (Stranger Than Paradise, Night on Earth), is Memphis. Made with its director’s customary precision and wit, Mystery Train is a triptych of stories that pay playful tribute to the […]