Vox Lux

Jules’ (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) life and career as a drag queen is destroyed by a homophobic attack. But after a chance encounter with his attacker, the deeply closeted Preston (George Mackay), he is presented with the opportunity to exact revenge. Unrecognisable out of his wig and make-up, Jules infiltrates Preston’s life and in doing so discovers […]

This brilliant feature debut from director Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters)is an affectionate and uniquely British tribute to the Hollywood detective movies of the 1940s. Starring the great Albert Finney (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Murder on the Orient Express, Skyfall) as a Liverpool bingo-caller who dreams of being a private […]

The Newport Jazz Festival was created in 1954 by Rhode Island socialites Elaine and Louis Lorillard, and it couldn’t have come at a better time in history. With a few exceptions, the big band jazz scene had waned in the early 1950s and, in its place, smaller groups and solo performers took centre stage, which […]

From Director Walter Hill comes a battle of gigantic proportions looming in the neon underground of New York City. The armies of the night number 100,000; they outnumber the police 5 to 1; and tonight they’re after the Warriors – a street gang blamed unfairly for a rival gang leader’s death. Members of the Warriors […]

Rupert Pupkin är en underhållare av världsklass – i alla fall enligt honom själv! Men trots sina 34 år bor han fortfarande hemma hos mamma, där han leder låtsasshower med kändisar i papp, och är hopplöst okänd. Desperat efter att slå igenom börjar han förfölja sin store idol, Jerry Langford, i hopp om att denne […]

A classic neo-noir and a definitive 1980s erotic thriller, Jagged Edge stars Jeff Bridges (Fat City, Winter Kills) as a dashing newspaper publisher accused of brutally slaying his rich socialite wife in order to inherit her fortune. Glenn Close (Fatal Attraction) plays the high-achieving female attorney who is compromised when she enters into a torrid […]

En snöig natt i februari 1972 sköts den framgångsrike jazzmusikern Lee Morgan till döds av sin sambo Helen, mitt under ett gig på en klubb i New York. Mordet kom som en chock för jazzvärlden, och minnet av den natten väcker fortfarande starka känslor hos de som kände paret Morgan. Göteborgaren Kasper Collin tillbringade sju […]

1920-talet brukar ses som den svenska filmens första guldålder. Den andra inföll på 1960-talet och den som drog upp ridån för den och i hög grad kom att prägla den var Bo Widerberg, en svårstyrd skåning som…..