Top of the Lake: China Girl

“The Duke is in London, and London will never be the same!” Veteran Chicago detective Jim Brannigan (John Wayne, The Searchers) is dispatched to London to bring back notorious gangster Ben Larkin (John Vernon, Dirty Harry), and is assured that the whole operation will run smoothly. However, when things don’t go to plan, Brannigan finds […]

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 […]

Chris Pine and Ben Foster play Texan brothers in David Mackenzie’s muscular new film. We meet them as they are committing a series of bank robberies across the state and as the motives become clear the stakes get higher as grizzled lawman, Jeff Bridges, sets out to catch them. A smart, witty and modern take […]

Varje dag korsar mjölkmannen Kosta frontlinjen på en åsna, mitt under det bosnisk-serbiska kriget, för att leverera det vita guldet till soldaterna. Han har lyckats hålla sig undan från kulor och har även tur i kärlek med en kvinna från byn. Tills en mystisk italiensk kvinna anländer och vänder uppochned på hans värld. Så börjar […]

In 1981, writer and Warhol associate Glenn O’Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, a graffiti innovator and noise music artist who’d just begun to exhibit his paintings

Amid the filth and muck of England in the Dark Ages, a fearsome dragon stalks the land, casting a shadow of terror upon the kingdom of Bruno the Questionable. Who should emerge as the only possible savior but Dennis Cooper (Michael Palin), an endearingly witless bumpkin who stumbles onto the scene and is flung into […]

Chaos lurks in every corner of this giddily off-kilter foray into romantic comedy by Paul Thomas Anderson. Struggling to cope with his erratic temper, novelty-toilet-plunger salesman Barry Egan (Adam Sandler, demonstrating remarkable versatility in his first dramatic role) spends his days collecting frequent-flyer-mile coupons and dodging the insults of his seven sisters. The promise of […]

The legendary Max Ophuls (Letter from an Unknown Woman; La Ronde) directs this tense and stylish 1949 film noir melodrama. Joan Bennett (Scarlet Street) stars as a suburban housewife who covers up a murder to protect her teenage daughter, only to find herself blackmailed by an immoral small-time crook, played by James Mason (North by […]