La Strada (Blu-Ray)

Pedro Almodóvar’s intensely personal 21st film is a scrapbook of the director’s memories. Director Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas) is called to revisit one of his early career triumphs. But the new restoration connects him with estranged friends, and shakes loose old memories. We move back and forth between recollections of his mother (Penélope Cruz), his […]

Before he was Saul, he was small-time, hustling attorney Jimmy McGill (Golden Globe nominee Bob Odenkirk). Season 2 finds Jimmy leaving shortcuts behind for his budding romance with Kim (Rhea Seehorn). With his stern brother Chuck (Michael McKean) keeping watch and fixer Mike (Jonathan Banks) drawn into a menacing cartel web, how long can “Slippin’ […]

One of the towering masterpieces of Japanese and world cinema, this three-part war epic has rarely been seen in the UK, at least partly because of its dauntingly gargantuan nine hour length. Director Masaki Kobayashi (Harakiri) was attracted to Junpei Gomikawa s source novel because he recognised himself in the character of the protagonist Kaji, […]

The latest from the unique imagination of Peter Strickland (The Duke of Burgundy), In Fabric is a typically distinctive, idiosyncratic and evocative tale that blends Giallo-infused horror with absurdist dark humour, to ghostly effect.  Set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period at a mysterious Thames Valley department store, the film follows […]

Stanley Kramer followed his Oscar-winning Judgment at Nuremberg with this sobering investigation of American greed. Ah, who are we kidding? It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, about a group of strangers fighting tooth and nail over buried treasure, is the most grandly harebrained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners performed by a nonpareil cast, […]

If you thought the Losers’ Club were safe from Pennywise the Clown and his shapeshifting nightmare powers, guess again. The 27 year curse on the town of Derry resurfaces, calling the six back together. Can they find a means to end It’s reign of terror once and for all?  The conclusion to the biggest […]

Seriealbumen om Gaston har sålts i miljonupplagor, så denna filmatisering är förstås hett efterlängtad! Théo Fernandez spelar den klantige och late odågan Gaston Lagaffe som driver alla på kontoret till vansinne (framför allt chefen!). Inte minst på grund av alla hans ”geniala” uppfinningar, som gör att kontoret gång på gång blir förvandlat till en katastrofzon! […]

Mavis! is the first documentary on gospel/soul music legend and civil rights icon Mavis Staples and her family group, The Staple Singers. From the freedom songs of the 60s and hits like “I’ll Take You There” in the 70s, to funked-up collaborations with Prince and her recent albums with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Mavis has stayed […]