Girls – Season 5 (Blu-Ray)

Helen Mirren leads a stellar cast as a commander of a secret UK drone operation. Gavin Hood’s thriller engages with the realities and moral intricacies of modern warfare and counter-terrorism as opposed to the escapism some spy films offer. The action plays out across a global stage, with Aaron Paul, Barkhad Abdi and the late, […]

A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow

French crime drama co-written and directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. A wave of hysteria sweeps the small provincial town of St Robin when a series of poison-pen letters signed ‘Le Corbeau’ appear denouncing several prominent members of society. Starting with the village doctor, the slow sinister trickle of letters soon becomes a flood and no one […]

Tårtgeneralen är en varm, rolig men också lite vemodig berättelse, baserad på verkliga händelser. I mitten av 80-talet utser Jan Guillou Köping till Sveriges tråkigaste stad. Medan bygden lamslås och ett helt land skrattar bestämmer sig den något försupne mångsysslaren Hasse P (Mikael Persbrandt) för att motbevisa Stockholmsjävlarna. Hans idé är lika långsökt som den […]

Äntligen kan vi likt Karl-Bertils familj förenas i ”den gemensamma känsla av andakt som endast en gammal långfilm på TV kan förunna människorna” som Tage Danielsson uttrycker det i Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton

This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema. It stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie as two newcomers

In this deeply personal tale of estrangement and reconciliation between two rebellious brothers, set in a dreamlike and timeless Tulsa, Francis Ford Coppola gives mythic dimensions to intimate, painful emotions

How far will a 32 year-old virgin go to possess a 19 year-old boy? Just prior to his career breakthrough M*A*S*H, Robert Altman made this memorably unsettling psychological thriller, which originally premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Frances Austen, a young, wealthy spinster, invites a mute teenager into her apartment after finding him freezing in the park next […]