As the summer approaches the movies that power the video store continue to arrive. This week a little bit of everything hits the shelves so let us take a look shall we…
“The Lone Rangers,” a struggling heavy metal band consisting of Chazz (Brendan Fraser), Rex (Steve Buscemi), and Pip (Adam Sandler). Desperate to get their demo tape played, they hijack a Los Angeles rock station with water pistols. The botched publicity stunt quickly spirals into a massive, heavily armed hostage crisis
While listening to a boring history lesson, Alice drifts off to sleep. She suddenly spots an anthropomorphic White Rabbit in a waistcoat, frantically running while muttering about being late. Alice follows him to a hole and tumbles down into a seemingly bottomless abyss filled with floating furniture
In a dark, post-apocalyptic world, an unnamed, solitary girl fiercely protects a mysterious, large egg hidden inside her clothing. She meets a similarly unnamed boy carrying a cross-shaped weapon. They bond, but he ultimately destroys the egg, leading to a surreal conclusion
In this unrelenting action masterpiece from director John Carpenter (Halloween, Escape from New York), a police station under siege from a vicious street gang becomes a cataclysmic battleground where only the strongest survive! This explosive gem from one of cinema’s great frightmasters is inspired by Howard Hawks’ immortal western, Rio Bravo and Night of the Living Dead. Made in 1976.
In the enthralling Blow Out, brilliantly crafted by Brian De Palma, John Travolta gives one of his greatest performances as Jack, a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. He enlists the help of Sally (Nancy Allen), a possible eyewitness to the crime who may be in danger herself, to uncover the truth. With its jolting stylistic flourishes, intricate plot, profoundly felt characterizations, and gritty evocation of early-1980s Philadelphia, Blow Out is an American paranoia thriller unlike any other, as well as a devilish reflection on the act of moviemaking.
In the dystopic masterpiece Brazil, Jonathan Pryce plays a daydreaming everyman who finds himself caught in the soul-crushing gears of a nightmarish bureaucracy. This cautionary tale by Terry Gilliam, one of the great films of the 1980s, now ranks alongside antitotalitarian works by the likes of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. And in terms of set design, cinematography, music, and effects, Brazil, a nonstop dazzler, stands alone.
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) follows five college friends who travel to a remote cabin for a weekend getaway. Unbeknownst to them, they are being manipulated by a secret underground facility. The scientists orchestrate their demise as part of a global ritual to appease ancient, subterranean gods.
During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew whose goal was to study the region’s indigenous cannibalistic tribes.
The Cars That Ate Paris is a 1974 Australian horror-comedy. The plot follows a small, isolated outback town that survives economically by intentionally causing car crashes, salvaging the wreckage, and lobotomizing the crash survivors for bizarre medical experiments
Irish horror about an amnesiac drifter who takes a job from a shady stranger to look after his disturbed niece in a decrepit house on a deserted rural island following her father’s recent suicide. What could go wrong? Damian Mc Carthy, 2020.
A gonzo revenge thriller, a darkly comic anticapitalist critique, and a dizzying plunge into the alienated abyss of the internet, Cloud is among the most audacious genre experiments to date from master of psychological tension Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Factory worker Yoshii (Masaki Suda) quits his job to pursue his side business reselling questionably procured items online at outrageous markups. His profits quickly grow—but so does his list of enemies, and the petty grievances of his disgruntled clients and competitors soon take on a terrifying life of their own. With slow-burn precision, Kurosawa constructs a dread-inducing vision of digital depersonalization that ignites into something altogether shocking and unpredictable.
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II. Elem Klimov, 1985.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) is a dark, visually lavish film directed by Peter Greenaway. It follows the abused wife of a brutal, foul-mouthed crime boss who begins a torrid, clandestine affair with a gentle bookseller at her husband’s restaurant, culminating in an act of gruesome, poetic revenge.
Cool Hand Luke (1967) follows Lucas “Luke” Jackson (Paul Newman), an irreverent war veteran sentenced to a grueling Florida prison camp for drunkenly destroying parking meters. Refusing to bow to the sadistic warden’s oppressive rules, Luke’s unbreakable spirit earns him the deep admiration and hope of his fellow inmates
When a master samurai arrives to duel the disgraced Yoshioka dojo, he walks into an ambush. In the world s first 77-minute, one-take action film sequence, Miyamoto Musashi (Tak Sakaguchi) fights for his life against 400 warriors, earning a place in history as the CRAZY SAMURAI MUSASHI.
His beast-blood demanded he KILL … KILL … KILL! Directed by legendary horror filmmaker Terence Fisher (Horror of Dracula, The Curse Of Frankenstein), this atmospheric tale of terror stars Oliver Reed (Venom, The Brood) as the orphan of a maniacal beggar and a mute girl.
From his birth to young manhood, he discovers a horrible secret. Try as he may, the cursed man is unable to deny the dark force within him. When the moon is full, he becomes an uncontrollable, seemingly unstoppable killer incapable of distinguishing between friend and foe.
Spectacular makeup effects and beautifully photographed 19th-century European locales heighten the suspense of this classic tale of horror.
A werewolf loose in LA mauls 3 young adults who must kill it in order to avoid becoming werewolves. Written by Kevin Williamson. Portia de Rossi, Mya, Shannon Elizabeth, Jesse Eisenberg, Christina Ricci, Wes Craven, 2005.
The 1981 BBC TV miniseries adaptation of The Day of the Triffids follows Bill Masen, who escapes mass blindness caused by a meteor shower because he is recovering in a hospital. He teams up with other sighted survivors to escape society’s collapse and a newly lethal, ambulatory species of flesh-eating plants called Triffids
In Jim Jarmusch’s first period piece he has imagined the nineteenth-century American West as an existential wasteland, delivering a surreal reckoning with the ravages of industrialization, the country’s legacy of violence and prejudice. Johnny Depp.
Beginning with an explosive, six-minute montage of sex, drugs and violence, and ending with a phallus-headed battle robot taking flight, Takashi Miike’s unforgettable Dead or Alive Trilogy features many of the director’s most outrageous moments set alongside some of his most dramatically moving scenes.
Rare cult classic, where a young man and friends go back to the old farm to investigate the mysterious death of his grandparents, but the Demon Wind possesses and turns them into monsters from hell. Charles Philip Moore(1990)
The most personal film by Guillermo del Toro (Cronos) is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The Devil’s Backbone tells the tale of a ten-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro effectively combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish concoction that reminds us—as would his later Pan’s Labyrinth—that the scariest monsters are often the human ones.
UNCUT R RATED VERSION! Two lifelong friends start a revenge-for-hire business to fund a father’s surgery, leading to explosive pranks and messy mob entanglements. Norm Macdonald, Artie Lange, Jack Warden, Traylor Howard, Bob Saget, 1998.
Dogma follows two banished angels who attempt to exploit a loophole in Catholic doctrine to re-enter Heaven. If successful, they will prove God fallible and destroy all existence. To save humanity, the last living descendant of Jesus Christ is tasked with stopping them, aided by a squad of unlikely prophets
Academy Award Nominee & Winner of Un Certain Regard, Cannes! A darkly surreal Greek film about three teenagers confined to an isolated country estate and kept under strict rule and regimen by their parents. Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009.
Downrange (2017) is a brutal survival horror film directed by Ryuhei Kitamura. The plot follows a group of stranded friends on a desolate highway who become the targets of a mysterious, highly skilled sniper. Trapped in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, they must use their wits to survive
Starring Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn. Once two overzealous cops get suspended from the force, they must delve into the criminal underworld to get their proper compensation. S. Craig Zahler (2018)
During a war between humans and the reptilian Drac race, spaceship pilot Willis Davidge ends up stranded on an alien world, along with enemy fighter Jeriba Shigan. While both Willis and his Drac counterpart can breathe on the planet, the environment and its creatures are relatively hostile, forcing the two to work together to survive. As time goes by, Willis and Jeriba become unlikely friends, though their unique relationship faces considerable challenges.
David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by Frederick Elmes, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, this visionary nocturnal odyssey remains one of American cinema’s darkest dreams.
Kubrick’s final provocative film! A Manhattan doctor’s jealousy plunges him into a surreal nocturnal odyssey of masked orgies, sexual intrigue, and elite society’s hidden desires. Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Stanley Kubrick, 1999.
A laid-off defence worker snaps under urban pressure, turning everyday frustrations into a violent city-wide breakdown that exposes economic displacement, social strain, and collapsing middle-class identity in modern America. Michael Douglas, Robert Duval
What would happen if a sex drug ended up in the Secret Sauce of a new burger joint?
Award winning awesomely ultraviolent and sleazy Moby Dick homage about a ruthless vigilante who stops at nothing to track down a depraved serial killer. In the same vein as Hobo With a Shotgun. Directed by Winnipeg film collective Astron-6. 2011.
No one will ever make movies like Doris Wishman made movies. One of the most prolific women filmmakers in the history of American cinema, writer-director-editor Wishman created collisions between surrealism and exploitation that feel like they materialized from an alternate universe. THE FILMS OF DORIS WISHMAN: THE TWILIGHT YEARS surveys the last major era of Wishman’s career. From DEADLY WEAPONS and DOUBLE AGENT 73 (crime epics starring the iconic Chesty Morgan) to LET ME DIE A WOMAN (a semi-documentary about transgender people), AGFA + Something Weird are honoured to present these triumphant DIY treasures in dazzling new restorations.
Yabba Dabba Doo!
A thrilling tale of friendship and survival that took indie animation to ecstatic new heights of ambition and imagination, this Academy Award–winning international sensation follows a courageous cat after its home is devastated by a great flood. As the cat teams up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog to navigate a boat in search of dry land, the crew must rely on trust, courage, and their wits to survive the perils of a newly aquatic planet. Working with a small team using open-source software, visionary DIY animator Gints Zilbalodis conjures a sublime sensory odyssey and a profound meditation on the fragility of the environment and the spirit of community.
Directed by David Cronenberg, The Fly (1986) follows eccentric scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) as he invents teleportation “telepods”. While attempting to teleport himself, a housefly slips into the pod. The computer fuses their DNA, causing Brundle to undergo a horrifying physical and mental transformation into a human-fly hybrid
When Jeffrey Franken’s fiancée is chopped to pieces by the blades of a remote-controlled lawnmower, he uses his dubious medical knowledge to try to bring her back to life. He reassembles his beloved Elizabeth using the body parts of New York City’s finest prostitutes, and resurrects her during a heavy lightning storm.
In this modern take on Little Red Riding Hood, a young woman trying to get to grandma’s house is picked up by a vicious murderer who preys on young, female hitchhikers. Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, 1999.
Hackman double feature!
In Peter Jackson’s 1996 supernatural horror-comedy The Frighteners, Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) uses his psychic ability to see ghosts to con locals. He has his spectral friends haunt houses so he can “exorcise” them for a fee. When a demonic Reaper starts murdering townspeople, Frank is framed for the crimes and must stop the spirit
Maverick writer/director Ralph Bakshi made his feature-length film debut with this audacious foray into adult-content animation, creating one of the most successful animated features of its time! 1972.
Set in 2029 in the futuristic New Port City, Ghost in the Shell follows Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg federal agent, as she hunts “The Puppet Master,” a rogue hacker who illegally hacks into cyborgs’ computerized minds. Her investigation uncovers a political conspiracy and leads her to question the nature of her own humanity
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is a 2006 Japanese animated sci-fi romance directed by Mamoru Hosoda. It follows 17-year-old Makoto, who discovers she can physically “leap” backward in time. She frivolously uses this power for personal gain—like re-taking tests and avoiding awkward situations—before realizing her actions have unintended, sometimes dangerous consequences for those around her.
The double feature along with the sweet fake trailers!
Harmony Korine’s debut feature is an audacious, lyrical evocation of America’s rural underbelly, and an elegy in the southern-gothic tradition of William Faulkner and William Eggleston. Shot in Korine’s native Nashville—standing in for the tornado-ravaged Xenia, Ohio—the rough-hewn film follows two young friends, Tummler and Solomon, as they ride around town, huffing glue and hunting stray cats, their every local encounter charged with vaudevillian anarchy as well as deep pathos. At once transgressive and empathetic, disturbing and undeniably beautiful, Gummo is a one-of-a-kind portrait of angelic and devilish souls caught in a cultural void, circumscribed by poverty and the depleted, alienated spiritual life of late-twentieth-century America.
A young hacker and his friends discover a plot to unleash a dangerous computer virus, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus. Angelina Jolie
A riotously stylised Baltimore dance comedy set in 60’s America follows an exuberant teen who storms a TV dance show, colliding with segregation-era social norms and turning pop culture spectacle into a public battleground for integration. John Waters.
The canadian classic returns to the shop…again.
Bored with Olympus, a visibly frustrated Hercules leaves for New York City, only to find himself entangled with wrestling promoters and the mob. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arthur A. Seidelman, 1970.
A young family moves from their cramped New York City apartment to a spacious new home in New England. But this is no ordinary house in the country: the previous owner was the deranged Dr. Freudstein, whose monstrous human experiments have left a legacy of bloody mayhem. Now, someone – or something – is alive in the basement, and home sweet home is about to become a horrific hell on earth.
In How to Kill a Judge, Franco Nero (Django) plays filmmaker Giacomo Solaris, whose latest film features a judge corrupted by the mafia and who is later killed. The real judge the character is based on seizes the film but is later found murdered.
A young man whose sister was murdered by werewolves helps an investigator track down a gang of the monsters through the United States and Europe. Christopher Lee, Annie McEnroe, Reb Brown, Philippe Mora, 1985.
Hogan Triple Feature!
The Hunt Is On!
From the director of Beyond the Door III, a group of friends reunites at a ski lodge, only to be stalked by a masked killer. Jeff Kwitny, 1988.
The notorious exploitation shocker, remastered in UHD! A sadistic camp commandant subjects prisoners to cruel experiments in a notorious cult classic. Dyanne Thorne, Joe Cirillo, Don Edmonds, 1975
Ilsa returns as the ruthless harem keeper in this lurid, over-the-top sequel, running a Middle Eastern slave ring while a secret agent investigates. Dyanne Thorne, Victor Alexander, Michael Thayer, Richard Kennedy, Don Edmonds, 1974
Whole Lotta Indy!
The Hong Kong crime drama was jolted to new life with the release of the Infernal Affairs trilogy, a bracing, explosively stylish critical and commercial triumph that introduced a dazzling level of narrative and thematic complexity to the genre with its gripping saga of two rival moles—played by superstars Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah—who navigate slippery moral choices as they move between the intersecting territories of Hong Kong’s police force and its criminal underworld. Set during the uncertainty of the city-state’s handover from Britain to China and steeped in Buddhist philosophy, these ingeniously crafted tales of self-deception and betrayal mirror Hong Kong’s own fractured identity and the psychic schisms of life in a postcolonial purgatory.
Whole Lotta Chappie!
Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2025, man kidnaps a driver he believes tortured him in prison, drawing others into a tense search for certainty and truth amid shared trauma of the Iranian regime. Jafar Panahi
A murderous serial killer returns as a mutant snowman to exact his revenge on those who sentenced him to death. Scott MacDonald, Michael Cooney, 1997.
One year after the Christmas killing spree, Jack Frost (Scott MacDonald), is resurrected and travels to a tropical island to take revenge on the man responsible for his death.
There’s something going on at the local video arcade – something totally insane, outrageously hilarious, very sexy and thoroughly entertaining; the hit film JOY STICKS
Frustrated with babysitting on yet another weekend night, Sarah (Jennifer Connelly), a teenager with an active imagination, summons the Goblins to take her baby stepbrother away. When little Toby actually disappears, Sarah must follow him into a fantastical world to rescue him from the Goblin King (David Bowie). Directed by Jim Henson, who worked closely with acclaimed artist and Conceptual Designer, Brian Froud, and Executive Producer, George Lucas. With creatures brought to life by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, the film is a fantasy classic that is recognized as groundbreaking and wildly ahead of its time.
A retired military soldier who is blind must defend himself and others against a werewolf!
Dutch cult horror where an inquisitive repairman investigates a faulty elevator and discovers a dark, distorted power has gained control of the machine for its own evil design. Dick Maas, 1983.
There is something very wrong with the elevator in a stylish office high-rise. The passengers never end up on the floor of their choice. They end up dead! When Felix, an inquisitive repairman, investigates the faulty deathtrap, he discovers that something other than malfunctioning machinery is to blame.
American underground new wave masterpiece where invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment and find that absorbing humans during orgasm is better then heroin. Slava Tsukerman (1982)
“Lisa Frankenstein” is a romantic comedy horror film about a misunderstood teenager who accidentally resurrects a Victorian corpse, leading to a bizarre love story filled with dark humor and chaos.
After a night of video games and procrastination, Lloyd and his best friends, Patrick and Oswald, have slacked their way into losing their student funding. The trio’s only hope lies with their arrogant and quite “dick-ish” Medieval Literature professor, Derek. To save their mediocre academic careers, the guys enter a dark pact with their teacher who needs fresh victims to claim another Grand Championship in the imaginary world of Demons & Dwarves.
A keen observer of America’s social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neowestern mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles’s masterful film—novelistic in its intricacy and featuring a brilliant ensemble cast, including Joe Morton, Elizabeth Peña, and Kris Kristofferson—quietly subverts national mythmaking and lays bare the fault lines of life at the border.
The Longest Day (1962) is an epic, star-studded war drama recreating the D-Day invasion of Normandy from Allied and German perspectives. Presented in a docudrama style with multilingual dialogue and authentic locations, it blends strategic overviews with ground-level action, vividly portraying the scale, complexity, and human courage of June 6, 1944. Acclaimed for its realism, historical accuracy, and sweeping scope, it’s widely regarded as one of the greatest WWII films.
“We’ve met before, haven’t we?” A mesmerizing meditation on the mysterious nature of identity, Lost Highway, David Lynch’s seventh feature film, is one of the filmmaker’s most potent cinematic dreamscapes. Starring Patricia Arquette and Bill Pullman, the film expands the horizons of the medium, taking its audience on a journey through the unknown and the unknowable. As this postmodern noir detours into the realm of science fiction, it becomes apparent that the only certainty is uncertainty.
Magnolia is a sprawling, interwoven drama that follows multiple characters in the San Fernando Valley over a single day, exploring themes of regret, forgiveness, and human connection.
Starring Emilio Estevez, a group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal. Stephen King (1986)
The wonderfully ridiculous story of a beautifully coiffed man and his army of mercenaries who combat vaguely ethnic supervillains. Barry Bostwick, Michael Beck, Persis Khambatta, Hal Needham, 1982.
Melancholia is a psychological drama directed by Lars von Trier that follows the story of two sisters, Justine and Claire, as they navigate their strained relationship amidst the impending collision of a mysterious planet with Earth. Justine, played by Kirsten Dunst, struggles with severe depression, particularly on the night of her wedding, while Claire, portrayed by Charlotte Gainsbourg, deals with anxiety about the planet’s threat. The film explores themes of mental illness and existential dread as the sisters confront their emotional turmoil against the backdrop of an impending apocalypse
In a small Korean province in 1986, two detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit. Bong Joon Ho, 2003.
A kung fu rock band goes up against a gang of drug dealing ninja bikers who have tightened their grip on Florida’s narcotics trade. Yes, you read that correctly. Written, directed and starring inspirational speaker Y.K. Kim, 1987.
An island off the New England coast, summer of 1965. Two twelve-year-olds, Sam and Suzy, fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As local authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing offshore . . . Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom stars Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward as the young couple on the run, Bruce Willis as Island Police Captain Sharp, Edward Norton as Khaki Scout troop leader Scout Master Ward, and Bill Murray and Frances McDormand as Suzy’s attorney parents, Walt and Laura Bishop. The cast also includes Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, and Bob Balaban. The magical soundtrack features the music of Benjamin Britten.
Based on the cult video game, fighters from around the world enter a mystical tournament against Outworld champions to prevent invasion and save Earth. Christopher Lambert, Robin Shou, Linden Ashby, Paul W.S. Anderson, 1995.
Whole Lotta Muppets…
A trio of stories following 3 very different visitors to Memphis connected by a sleazy hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley. Jim Jarmusch, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Joe Strummer, Cinqué Lee, 1989.
Originally shot in 1984 and not finished until 2021, a sound technician for a news station becomes a vigilante ninja in New York City after his pregnant wife is murdered. Don Wilson, Michael Berryman, Linnea Quigley, 2021.
A blade-wielding psychopath is on the loose, turning The Big Apple bright red with the blood of beautiful young women. As NYPD detectives follow the trail of butchery from the decks of the Staten Island Ferry to the sex shows of Times Square, each brutal
A soldier convicted for murdering his commanding officer is dumped and left to die on a prison island inhabited by two camps of convicts. Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson, Martin Campbell, 1994.
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From the director of the cult fave Strawberry Mansion! Set in the 80s, a shut-in computer nerd begins to play a computer game which he must complete in order to rescue his kidnapped dog. Callie Hernandez, Albert Birney, 2025.
A psychic medium attempts to uncover the truth behind her sister’s murder at the site of the crime. Carolyn Bracken, Johnny French, Steve Wall, Damian Mc Carthy, 2024.
Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this masterpiece of urban poetry, a raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption. On the Waterfront charts Terry’s deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) and Johnny’s right-hand man, Terry’s brother, Charley (Rod Steiger), as the authorities close in on them. Driven by the vivid, naturalistic direction of Elia Kazan and savory, streetwise dialogue by Budd Schulberg, On the Waterfront was an instant sensation, winning eight Oscars, including for best picture, director, actor, supporting actress (Eva Marie Saint), and screenplay.
A zeitgeist-defining sensation that distilled a global reckoning over class inequality into a tour de force of pop-cinema subversion, Bong Joon Ho’s genre-scrambling black-comic thriller confirms his status as one of the world’s foremost filmmakers. Two families in Seoul—one barely scraping by in a dank semibasement in a low-lying neighborhood, the other living in luxury in a modern architectural marvel overlooking the city—find themselves on a collision course that will lay bare the dark contradictions of capitalism with shocking ferocity. A bravura showcase for its director’s meticulously constructed set pieces, bolstered by a brilliant ensemble cast and stunning production design, Parasite cemented the New Korean Cinema as a full-fledged international force when it swept almost every major prize from Cannes to the Academy Awards, where it made history as the first non-English-language film to win the Oscar for best picture.
Having brought British cinema into exalted realms of fantasy and imagination, Michael Powell took a dark detour into obsession, voyeurism, and violence with this groundbreaking metacinematic investigation into the mechanics of fear. Armed with his killer camera, photographer and filmmaker Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) unleashes the traumas of his childhood by murdering women and recording their deaths—until he falls for his downstairs neighbor, and finds himself struggling against his dark compulsions. Received with revulsion upon its release only to be reclaimed as a masterpiece, the endlessly analyzed, still-shocking Peeping Tom dares viewers to confront their own relationship to the violence on-screen.
The grimy criminal underworld and hedonistic rock-and-roll counterculture of late-1960s London collide in this mind-scrambling, kaleidoscopic freak-out. On the run from his vengeful boss, a ruthless gangster (James Fox) hides out in the Notting Hill home of a reclusive rock star (Mick Jagger) and his companions (Anita Pallenberg and Michele Breton), who open the doors of his perception as the lines between reality and fantasy, male and female, persona and self, dissolve in a hallucinogenic haze. Built around Jagger’s most magnetic narrative-film performance, this visionary collaboration between enigmatic artist Donald Cammell and first-time director Nicolas Roeg is a daringly transgressive, endlessly influential journey to the dark side of bohemia.
Following a mysterious eclipse-like solar event, scientists begin to notice strange and unexplainable behavioral changes in ants. While initially written off as an unconcerning anomaly, it soon becomes apparent that the creatures have developed advanced intelligence along with the ability to work collectively. Scientists Ernest Hubbs and James Lesko have been transferred to a futuristic lab in a remote part of the Arizona desert in which to study these phenomena. However, when the ants begin to attack and kill both wildlife and humans, Hubbs and Lesko realize that the entire human race might now be at a deadly evolutionary disadvantage to the tiny insects…
Academy Award–winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of a controversial 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as Erika, a middle-aged piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother, in a claustrophobically codependent relationship. Severely repressed, she satisfies her masochistic urges only voyeuristically until she meets Walter (Benoît Magimel), a young student whose desire for Erika leads to a destructive infatuation that upsets the careful equilibrium of her life. A critical breakthrough for Haneke, The Piano Teacher-which won the Grand Prix as well as dual acting awards for its stars at Cannes-is a formalist masterwork that remains a shocking sensation.
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B-movie goofiness abounds when a US recon squad during the Vietnam War enters a remote jungle valley and faces deadly dinosaurs while trying to rescue a missing platoon. Ryan Kwanten, Tricia Helfer, Jeremy Piven, Luke Sparke, 2025
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Raising Arizona is a zany Coen Brothers crime comedy about an ex-con and an ex-cop whose longing for a family leads them into an absurd, high-energy caper after they decide to take a baby from a wealthy family with quintuplets. Blending surreal slapstick, eccentric characters, and bursts of heartfelt sincerity, it’s a cult classic praised for its originality, manic charm, and Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter’s eccentric performances, making it a must-see for fans of offbeat humor.
Akira Kurosawa’s brilliantly conceived retelling of Shakespeare’s KING LEAR magically mixes Japanese history, Shakespeare’s plot and Kurosawa’s own feelings about loyalty in the epic masterpiece, RAN. Set in 16th century Japan, RAN relates the tale of how an ageing ruler, Lord Hidetora (Tatsuya Nakadai), announces his intention to divide his land equally among his three sons. Hidetora’s decision to step down unleashes a power struggle among the three heirs when he falls prey to the false flattery bestowed upon him by the two older sons and banishes the youngest for speaking the truth. That ruthless betrayal ultimately drives Hidetora insane, destroying his entire family and kingdom. Deep human emotion and outstanding acting combine to create one of the most acclaimed foreign films of all time.
A quintessential cult film of the 1980s, Alex Cox’s singular sci-fi comedy stars the always captivating Harry Dean Stanton as a weathered repo man in a desolate Los Angeles, and Emilio Estevez as the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing. The job becomes more than either of them bargained for when they get involved in repossessing a mysterious —and otherworldly—Chevy Malibu with a hefty reward attached to it. Featuring the ultimate early-eighties LA punk soundtrack, this grungily hilarious odyssey is also a politically trenchant take on President Reagan’s domestic and foreign policies.
Heroic cop Alex Murphy is gunned down in the line of duty, only to be resurrected as RoboCop – the latest defense against crime designed by the OCP Corporation. As RoboCop’s memories of his former life resurface, only his ex-partner stands beside him to fight against the vicious thugs responsible for his death, as well as a nefarious top-level OCP executive orchestrating the chaos from above.
Starring Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah. The large-nosed C.D. Bales is in love with the beautiful Roxanne; she falls for his personality but another man’s looks. Fred Schepisi (1987)
A group of underground researchers subject human subjects to all types of extremes, both physical and mental, in order to awaken their ‘primal energies’ and making them, in effect, psychic. When the government shuts down the project, the researchers continue their tests, subjecting one of their own to an even more intense and extreme set of experimentation, culminating in the subject being sealed in a sensory-deprived rubber suit.
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s notorious final film, Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom, has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic . . . It’s also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker’s transposition of the Marquis de Sade’s eighteenth-century opus of torture and degradation to Fascist Italy in 1944 remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in.
In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer
with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him. An elegantly stylized masterpiece of cool by maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville, Le samourai is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture-with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology.
Gonzo arthouse exploitation film from about an aging porn star who is roped into making an “art” film which proceeds to have him commit increasingly demented and depraved acts. Srdjan Spasojevic, 2010.
From the creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion comes this towering, satirical kaiju thriller! When confronted by a strange giant monster Japan falls into political and bureaucratic chaos. Hiroki Hasegawa, Satomi Ishihara, Yutaka Takenouchi, Hideaki Anno and
An ingeniously engineered slash of thoroughly modern horror, arguably the most important film of the Canadian Tax Shelter era, which charts a social breakdown by tearing through our most intrinsic taboos. David Cronenberg, 1975.
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Luis (Sergi Lopez), in search of his missing daughter, arrives with his young son at a rave deep in the mountains of Morocco. Surrounded by electronic music and an unforgiving landscape, they join a caravan of ravers heading to one last mythical party in the desert. As they journey deeper into the vast wilderness, they are forced to confront their own limits.
Legendary Hungarian animator Marcell Jankovics created a definitive masterpiece of world cinema with this psychedelic adaptation of Hungarian fairy tales. Traversing an otherworldly canvas, Son of the White Mare follows mythic folk heroes Treeshaker, Stonecrumbler and Irontemperer as they descend into the perilous Underworld on an epic quest to battle the forces of ancient evil and save the cosmos. By turns astonishing and meditative, this kaleidoscopic medley of path-breaking animation styles is given its first-ever U.S. release here in a new 4K director approved restoration. Rounding out this collection is a comprehensive survey of Marcell Jankovics famed early work including a new restoration of János Vitéz, the first Hungarian animated feature film, and three landmark short films.
The Search For BIGFOOT!
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces. Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou, 2022.
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Tobe Hooper’s sequel to his beloved cult classic is wild, outrageous, and unbelievably gory mix of southern fried terror and surreal humour. Dennis Hopper, Bill Moseley, Caroline Williams, Bill Johnson, 1986.
Classic 50s in UHD!
Gonzo body-horror from the director of Raw, follows a young woman damaged by a childhood car crash caused by her negligent father now making her living as a dancer at car shows & willing to go violent when men go too far. Julia Ducournau, 2021.
A jolt of adrenaline shot straight to the heart of 1990s British cinema, this darkly funny adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s novel was a major breakthrough for director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, and screenwriter John Hodge. With live-wire energy and stylistic verve, Trainspotting bounces across the life and times of Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), a Scottish heroin addict who, along with his misfit mates, gets high, gets in trouble, gets clean, and gets high again, all in a bid to outrun the banality of modern existence. Kinetically cut to an iconic soundtrack of techno, rock, and Brit-pop, this indie phenomenon chooses life in all its ugly, beautiful, terrifying exhilaration.
On a Macao beach, kids discover the severed hands of a fresh victim. A squadron of cops investigate, and suspicion falls on Wong Chi Hang, the new owner of Eight Immortals Restaurant. The hands belong to the missing mother of the restaurant’s former owner; he and his family have disappeared; The police arrest Wong and try to torture him into a confession.
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What We Do In The Shadows introduces us the age-old vampire flat mates being filmed by a New Zealand documentary crew. Stuck in their antiquated ways they struggle to adjust to 21st century customs, like paying rent, sharing household chores, and getting expressly invited into nightclubs.
Argentinean horror about the residents of a small rural town discover that a demon is about to be born among them. They desperately try to escape before the evil is born, but it may be too late. Demián Rugna, 2023.
Idiosyncratic horror-comedy about a misfit cop investigating a rash of murders of young women in the sleepy town of Snow Hollow. Robert Forster, Jim Cummings, 2020.
WOLFCOP (Lowell Dean 2014)
As a series of strange and violent events begin to occur, an alcoholic policeman realizes that he has been turned into a werewolf as part of a larger plan.
STARS: Leo Fafard, Amy Matysio, Sarah Lind
ANOTHER WOLF COP (Lowell Dean 2017)
Alcoholic werewolf cop Lou Garou springs into action when an eccentric businessman with evil intentions seduces Woodhaven’s residents with a new brewery and hockey team in this outrageous horror-comedy sequel.
STARS: Leo Fafard, Yannick Bisson, Amy Matysio
In Italy, it was considered the sequel to Dawn Of The Dead. In America, it was called ZOMBIE and advertised with the tag line “We Are Going To Eat You!” Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Al Cliver, and Richard Johnson star in this worldwide splatter sensation directed by Maestro Of Gore Lucio Fulci that remains one of the most eye-skewering, skin-ripping, gore-gushingly graphic horror hits of all time!
And there we go guys…movies should be here Thursday/ Friday. Cheers!
