Top of the Lake: China Girl

One of the great American independent films of the 1990s, the surprise hit Metropolitan, by writer-director Whit Stillman, is a sparkling comedic chronicle of a young man’s romantic misadventures while trying to fit in to New York City’s debutante society. Stillman’s deft, literate dialogue and hilariously highbrow observations earned this first film an Academy Award […]

Vår planet är under attack! Månen har brutits loss ur sin bana och susar nu mot jorden. Om tio dagar är världens största smäll ett faktum. Bakom dådet ligger Kejsar Ming, rymdhärskaren som förgör planeter i samma takt som

Fifteen years before Stranger Things combined science-fiction, Spielberg-ian touches and 80s nostalgia to much acclaim, Richard Kelly set the template and the high-water mark with his debut feature, Donnie Darko

Paris 1928. Trots officiella uppgifter att tsar Nicolaj II och hans familj avrättades under ryska revolutionen 1918 florerar rykten om att den yngsta dottern, Anastasia, mirakulöst nog undkom bolsjevikerna.

Via ett påtänt och minst sagt klantigt bankrån hamnar kåkfararen Kennet åter bakom lås och bom. Märkt av den intolerans och det våld han alltid utsatts för inom fångvården lever han på drömmen om att ta klivet upp i en bättre tillvaro och inleder vid frigivningen vad som ska bli ett lagligt liv med flickvän […]

The first of the horror films producer Val Lewton made for RKO Pictures redefined the genre by leaving its most frightening terrors to its audience’s imagination. Simone Simon stars as a Serbian émigré in Manhattan who

Master genre exploder Bong Joon Ho swirls pathos, dark satire, action, and horror into an exhilarating twenty-first-century fairy tale. An all-star cast including Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Steven Yeun, and Jake Gyllenhaal is led by An Seo Hyun as Mija, a South Korean girl growing up on an Edenic mountainside with her grandfather and best […]

Drawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, director Steve Loveridge s Sundance award winning Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. is a startlingly personal profile of the critically acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star.  She began as Matangi. Daughter of the founder of […]