It’s Monday. We’re all tired from the weekend so why waste time? Let’s get down to busniess and see what’s new and exciting this week…
A chilling UK true-crime drama about a London serial killer and a wrongful execution that exposes postwar policing failures and class injustice. Richard Attenborough, John Hurt, Judy Geeson, Richard Fleischer, 1971
12 Angry Men, by Sidney Lumet, may be the most radical big-screen courtroom drama in cinema history. A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system as riveting as it is spare, the iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose’s teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the initially dissenting member of a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. What results is a saga of epic proportions that plays out in real time over ninety minutes in one sweltering room. Lumet’s electrifying snapshot of 1950s America on the verge of change is one of the great feature-film debuts.
Like a blast from a .44 magnum, Carl Weathers (Predator, Rocky) makes Action Jackson a hero who delivers the goods with charisma and excitement. He plays Detroit police Sergeant Jericho Jackson, pitted against the brutal thugs of ruthless auto tycoon Peter Dellaplane (Craig T. Nelson), who’s out to murder his way to political power. Jackson’s also involved with Dellaplane’s beautiful wife, Patrice (Sharon Stone) — and his mistress, Sydney (singer Vanity). Framed and hunted by his fellow officers, Jackson sets up a desperate showdown that hurls Action Jackson toward a heart-stopping climax.
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman (Rosanna Arquette). So begins the wildest night of his life, as bizarre occurrences—involving underground-art punks, a distressed waitress, a crazed Mister Softee truck driver, and a bagel-and-cream-cheese paperweight—pile up with anxiety-inducing relentlessness and thwart his attempts to get home. With this Kafkaesque cult classic, Martin Scorsese—abetted by Michael Ballhaus’s kinetic cinematography and scene-stealing supporting turns by Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, Catherine O’Hara, and John Heard—directed a darkly comic tale of mistaken identity, turning the desolate night world of 1980s SoHo into a bohemian wonderland of surreal menace.
Whole Lotta Hitchcock!
The closer we look, the less we know in Justine Triet’s masterful Palme d’Or–winning Anatomy of a Fall, an eerily riveting courtroom thriller that examines the line where truth becomes fiction and fiction becomes truth. When Sandra Voyter (a transfixing Sandra Hüller), a writer who turns the material of her life into autofiction, is put on trial for the suspicious death by defenestration—or was it suicide?—of her husband, it opens up an inquiry that will turn a troubled home inside out. Tapping into the minimalist intensity of a chamber drama—and using intricate, elliptical editing—Triet constructs a mystery that is ultimately less about a death than about the hidden lives we lead.
Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) is a private detective contracted by Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) to track down the iconic singer Johnny Favorite. However, everybody that Angel questions about Favorite seems to meet a tragic demise. Eventually the trail leads Angel to New Orleans where he learns that Favorite had dabbled in the black arts. As Favorite’s whereabouts and true identity become clear, Angel learns that being hired by Cyphre was not a random choice.
Lena, a biologist and former soldier, joins a mission to uncover what happened to her husband inside Area X — a sinister and mysterious phenomenon that is expanding across the American coastline. Once inside, the expedition discovers a world of mutated landscapes and creatures, as dangerous as it is beautiful, that threatens both their lives and their sanity.
In Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who has reportedly gone completely mad. In the company of a Navy patrol boat filled with street-smart kids, a surfing-obsessed Air Cavalry officer (Robert Duvall), and a crazed freelance photographer (Dennis Hopper), Willard travels further and further into the heart of darkness.
Kinji Fukasaku gave the world Japan’s answer to The Godfather with this violent yakuza saga, influencing filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to Takashi Miike. Made within just two years, the five-film series brought a new kind of realism and ferocity to the crime genre in Japan, revitalizing the industry and leading to unprecedented commercial and critical success.
Lane Meyer (John Cusack) is a teen with a peculiar family and a bizarre fixation with his girlfriend, Beth (Amanda Wyss). When Beth dumps Lane, he decides to kill himself, making bumbling attempts at suicide. Outside of his morbid endeavors, Lane spends time with his oddball buddy, Charles (Curtis Armstrong), and befriends Monique (Diane Franklin), a visiting French student. Eventually, Lane resolves to race Beth’s obnoxious new beau on the ski slopes, with unexpected results.
In this early co-direction effort from the soon to be legendary Johnnie To, a disgraced Hong Kong cop returns to duty to investigate his partner’s murder as violence within the criminal underworld escalates. Waise Lee, Joey Wong, Tony Leung, 1988.
Vanessa Redgrave stars in this stylish crime thriller classic where a mod London photographer may have found evidence of murder in the shots he has taken of a mysterious beauty in a desolate park. Michelangelo Antonioni (1966)
Before they blew the world’s mind with The Matrix, Lana and Lilly Wachowski delivered a jolt of pure pulp pleasure with their hyperstylish debut, which puts a deliciously sapphic spin on a crackerjack caper premise. When butch plumber Corky (Gina Gershon) catches the eye of alluring femme (fatale) Violet (Jennifer Tilly), little does she know she’s about to be drawn into both a torrid affair and a high-stakes heist that will pit the pair against the mob. With crackling dialogue, luscious neonoir cinematography, and live-wire performances by Gershon, Tilly, and Joe Pantoliano, Bound is a genre-reimagining joyride that keeps both the tension and the erotic heat rising through each crazily careening twist.
Starring Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper. A severed human ear found in a field leads a young man to investigate a mysterious nightclub singer and the criminals who kidnapped her child. David Lynch (1986)
During the Great Depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad. Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Martin Scorsese, 1972.
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.
An action-packed mystery-western based on the bestselling novel by Alistair MacLean. An undercover federal agent tries to bring a ruthless gang to justice. Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Tom Gries, 1975.
Orphaned siblings in Australia uncover dark rituals and terror lurking within their deranged foster mother’s grieving home. Sally Hawkins, Billy Barratt, Sora Wong, Danny & Michael Philippou, 2025
Two conspiracy-obsessed men kidnap the CEO of a major company when they become convinced that she’s an alien who wants to destroy Earth.
An all new version of the most controversial film ever made, Caligula: The Ultimate Cut features never-before-seen footage of the shocking cult classic. Haunted by the murder of his entire family, Caligula (Malcolm McDowell) seizes control of the declining Roman Empire, beginning a tyrannical reign of depravity, destruction, and madness.
When attorney Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) knowingly withholds evidence that would acquit violent sex offender Max Cady (Robert De Niro) of rape charges, Max spends 14 years in prison. But after Max’s release, knowing about Sam’s deceit, he devotes his life to stalking and destroying the Bowden family. When practical attempts to stop Max fail, Sam realizes that he must act outside the law to protect his wife and daughter in Martin Scorsese’s remake of the classic 1962 thriller.
Producer Val Lewton redefined the horror genre with this stylish and subtle horror film about a woman who fears she becomes a feline predator when intimate. Kent Smith, Simone Simon, Jacques Tourneur.
Granted, there’ve been scores of viewers who’ve had their nightmares fueled by the disturbing imagery of Tobe Hooper’s shoestring shocker “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” since it’s release in 1974. This intriguing offering from entertainment documentarian Alexandre O. Philippe revs up perspectives from five creative forces taken with the film from first watch-Patton Oswalt, Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Stephen King, Karyn Kusama-as they share what underpins their enthusiasm. 103 min. Widescreen; English. Region Free
A young woman who works in a beauty salon discovers that her private parts can talk, which causes her no end of personal trouble despite making her rich.
80’s horror about 8 teenagers trapped after hours in a high tech shopping mall pursued by murderous, out of control security robots. Jim Wynorski, 1986.
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.
Troma’s delirious and gory anti-war film about a dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggling with life slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban lifestyle. Buddy Giovinazzo, 1984.
This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko, in a searing depiction of anguish) eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty—rendered with a feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov’s subjective camera work and expressionistic sound design. Nearly blocked from being made by Soviet censors, who took seven years to approve its script, Come and See is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made.
A young woman (Meiko Kaji), trained from childhood as an assassin and hell-bent on revenge for her father’s murder and her mother’s rape, hacks and slashes her way to gory satisfaction. Rampant with inventive violence and spectacularly choreographed swordplay, Toshiya Fujita’s pair of influential cult classics Lady Snowblood and Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance, set in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japan, respectively, are bloody, beautiful extravaganzas composed of one elegant widescreen composition after another. The first Lady Snowblood was a major inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill saga, and both of Fujita’s films remain cornerstones of Asian action cinema.
David Cronenberg’s icily erotic fusion of flesh and machine about the kinky, death-obsessed underworld of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists for whom twisted metal and scar tissue are the ultimate turn-ons. Rosanna Arquette, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas.
Klaus Kinski stars in this uneven Alien rip off about a space geological team discover on one of Saturn’s moons a giant, prehistoric alien which intends to eat, and absorb the essences of all humans… Willian Malone, 1985.
Set in an eerie future where developments in medicine & analgesia have made pain a thing of the past, surgery has become the new sex. Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Scott Speedman, Kristen Stewart, David Cronenberg, 2022.
Wealthy step‑siblings at an elite New York prep school use seduction and deceit as sport, but their manipulations spiral into emotional damage and shattered trust. Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair, 1999
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s arresting new wave Japanese horror and international breakthrough hit. Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, 1997.
John Murdoch wakes in a hotel bathtub with no memory of who he is or how he got there, but there’s a body on the floor with bloody spirals carved into the flesh and a voice on the phone that tells him to flee. Soon Murdoch is on the run, wanted by the police, a woman who claims to be his wife, and a group of mysterious pale men who seem to control everyone and everything in the city…except him.
Beautifully-produced splendidly acted screen version of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile featuring Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot. Bette Davis, David Niven, Angela Lansbury, Olivia Hussey, Jane Birkin, John Guillerman, 1978
Restored for the first time ever! The strangely uplifting and most charming post-apocalyptic cannibal comedy ever made! Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro.
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life to the expense of his regular one. Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Mike Newell, 1997.
James Bryan’s cult classic about a group of obnoxious campers who venture into the wilderness for what they assume will be a fun filled weekend. Unknown to them, a bloodthirsty maniac is hiding in the woods…
A young girl’s imaginary friend comes back to help the grown woman work out her problems. Phoebe Cates, Rik Mayall, Marsha Mason, 1991.
Goofy pop-fantasy musical about a frisky extraterrestrial and the Valley Girls he loves. Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, Julie Brown, Charles Rocket, Julien Temple, 1988.
Whole Lotta Eddie!
A ragtag platoon of soldiers battles Australia’s deadliest flightless birds in a brutal and absurd reimagining of the 1932 conflict. Damien Callinan, Dane Simpson, Aaron Gocs, Lisa Fineberg, 2023
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.
Beloved cult film about a rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned… from a DIMENSION OF PURE EVIL! Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Paul W.S. Anderson, 1997
Peter Ustinov returns as Hercule Poirot in this adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel. Colin Blakely, Jane Birkin, Maggie Smith, Roddy McDowall, 1982.
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.
Two brothers from opposite sides of the tracks are reunited as adults. Desperate circumstances force them into a deal with an organized crime syndicate in Boston, and a young woman gets caught in the middle.
It began as a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between two of the greatest icons of the fantasy genre: Controversial animator Ralph Bakshi and legendary illustrator Frank Frazetta. Now experience a world unlike any ever seen, where savage warriors, horrific monsters and luscious maidens battle for the soul of a civilization in a time of good and evil, pleasure and pain, and Fire And Ice.
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.
Wild, horror-comedy adventure about a bored yuppie who gets caught in supernatural chaos, battling bizarre creatures when he calls a late night party hotline. Steven Kostanski, 2024.
In one of the best performances of his legendary career, Robert Mitchum (The Night of the Hunter) plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in an adaptation by Peter Yates (Breaking Away) of George V. Higgins’s acclaimed novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle. World-weary and living hand to mouth, Coyle works on the sidelines of the seedy Boston underworld just to make ends meet. But when he finds himself facing a second stretch of hard time, he’s forced to weigh loyalty to his criminal colleagues against snitching to stay free. Directed with a sharp eye for its gritty locales and an open heart for its less-than-heroic characters, this is one of the true treasures of 1970s Hollywood filmmaking-a suspenseful crime drama in stark, unforgiving daylight.
A group of helpless victims celebrate a birthday on an island estate crawling with killer amphibians, birds, insects, and reptiles. Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark, 1972
Inventive metaphysical horror about a desperate man who encounters a personable but destructive demi-god in a grimy rest stop bathroom. Ryan Kwanten, J.K. Simmons, Rebekah McKendry, 2022.
The trilogy. 2 amazing movie and Part 3 as well.
Includes Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy: TOTALLY FUCKED UP / DOOM GENERATION / NOWHERE
Take the conventions of the American teen movie, transpose them to Los Angeles’s freaky fringes, anchor them in an unapologetic vision of sexual fluidity, and top it all off with heavy doses of Gen X disillusionment, gonzo violence, and hallucinogenic surrealism, and you’ll end up with something like these audacious transgressions from New Queer Cinema renegade Gregg Araki. Gleefully mixing slacker irony with raw sincerity, Godardian cool with punk scuzz, the savagely subversive, hormone-fueled films that make up the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy pushed 1990s indie cinema into bold new aesthetic realms, while giving blistering expression to adolescent rage and libidinal desire.
A collection of skits that make fun of 1970s television, featuring early appearances by Chevy Chase and Richard Belzer. Ken Shapiro, 1974.
Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La haine (Hate), a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieues on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)—white, black, and Arab—give human faces to France’s immigrant and otherwise marginalized populations, their resentment at their situation simmering until it reaches a boiling point. A work of tough beauty, La haine is a landmark of contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis.
Todd Solondz’s controversial “Happiness” unveils the dark underbelly of suburban life, following a cast of damaged souls—from pedophiles to phone-sex addicts—as they desperately seek love amidst their existential despair. Philip Seymour Hoffman, 1998.
Michael Rooker gives a bone-chilling performance as Henry, a solitary drifter who leads his dim ex-jail mate Otis (Tim Towles), on a senseless killing spree through the streets of Chicago. Choosing their victims at random, they vary their methods of execution to avoid detection. Meanwhile, Otis’ unsuspecting sister, Becky (Tracy Arnold), comes to visit and finds herself falling in love with Henry.
For Rod Kimball (Andy Samberg), performing stunts is a way of life, even though he is rather accident-prone. Poor Rod cannot even get any respect from his stepfather, Frank (Ian McShane), who beats him up in weekly sparring matches. When Frank falls ill, Rod devises his most outrageous stunt yet to raise money for Frank’s operation — and then Rod will kick Frank’s butt.
Indescribable psychedelic Japanse ghost tale that’s equal parts absurd and nightmarish, Scooby Doo and Mario Bava. Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977.
From the director / star of the Lake Michigan Monster, a live action Looney Tunes meets Guy Maddin story of a drunken applejack salesman who must go from zero to hero and become North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
Wong Kar-wai’s visually extravagant mood piece about the mannered relationship between neighbours in 1960’s Hong Kong. Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung. 2000.
Starring Sam Neill and Jürgen Prochnow, an insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer’s books have on his fans is more than inspirational. John Carpenter (1994)
Whole Lotta Indy!
Chilling ’70s adaptation of Jack Finney’s classic novel. Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Philip Kaufman, 1978.
All four IRON EAGLE flicks together at last!
In a bid to further their careers, indie band Low Shoulder made a pact with the Devil, one that requires the soul of a virgin. They kidnap and kill cheerleader Jennifer, but unfortunately she was no virgin and resurrects to take her retribution.
A couple’s romantic anniversary weekend at a secluded cabin in the woods turns eerie and nightmarish when they face a sinister presence and the cabin’s chilling secrets begin to surface. Tatiana Maslany, Rossif Sutherland, Birkett Turton, Osgood Perkins.
In an attempt to prove his theory that the human eye is the gateway to another dimension, a brilliant ophthalmogist performs his final experiment on an unwitting homeless subject. As in all previous attempts, it seems to be yet another miserable waste of life. But something begins to stir in one of the still eye sockets of the victim. The dead man
When Jenna asks her four hot girlfriends to help convert an old mansion into a Halloween Haunt, they decide to party instead! Things get steamy between the girls, until they accidentally unleash the half-pint, horrible Killer Eye, a perverse party crasher from beyond. Bent on having his way, the Killer Eye will stop at nothing until he gets exactly what he wants.
A rapturously stylized quartet of tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, featuring colorfully surreal sets, luminous cinematography, existentially frightening and meticulously crafted. Masaki Kobayashi, 1964.
A sexy space vampire comes to earth and begins to transform the population of London into zombies. From director Tobe Hooper and writer Dan O’Bannon. Steve Railsback, Mathilda May, Peter Firth, 1985.
On a remote island, Ephraim Winslow arrives as a lighthouse keeper and assists his elderly supervisor, Thomas Wake. As days pass, Ephraim is haunted by strange and mysterious visions.
Peter Lorre stars as serial killer Hans Beckert in Fritz Lang’s harrowing masterwork M, a suspenseful panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thriller.
The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben (Benoît Poelvoorde) are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and arbitrary musings on topics of interest to him, such as music or the conditions of low-income housing, and even goes so far as to introduce the documentary crew to his family. But their reckless indulgences soon get the better of them.
Sam Elliott stars as a former US spy who killed Hitler and now must take on Bigfoot in order to prevent it from spreading a deathly plague. Seriously that’s the plot. Aidan Turner, Robert D. Krzykowski, 2018.
Follows FBI Agent Jim Fitzgerald, as he pioneers the use of forensic linguistics to identify and capture Ted Kaczynski, the ”Unabomber”, facing an uphill battle against both Kaczynski and the bureaucracy. TV Series (2017)
George Romero’s twisted take on vampire films! Misunderstood Martin may or may not be a vampire but one thing is certain: he needs to KILL! George A. Romero, 1978.
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.
Starring Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, in Philadelphia, a small-time bookie who stole mob money is in hiding and he begs a childhood friend to help him evade the hit-man who’s on his trail. Elaine May (1976)
After a powerful storm damages their Maine home, David Drayton (Thomas Jane) and his young son head into town to gather food and supplies. Soon afterward, a thick fog rolls in and engulfs the town, trapping the Draytons and others in the grocery store. Terror mounts as deadly creatures reveal themselves outside, but that may be nothing compared to the threat within, where a zealot (Marcia Gay Harden) calls for a sacrifice.
One of the earliest examples of remix cinema! A collage of commercials, film clips, newsreels, and television footage assembled into a found-footage montage by a young Joe Dante in 1968.
New York, 1980. Raped at gunpoint on her way home from work, mute seamstress Thana returns to her apartment only to be assaulted again by a burglar; but this time she fights back. Bludgeoning her assailant, she takes his gun and disposes of the body piece by piece. Fuelled by her trauma, Thana sees that sexual threat is everywhere and decides to bring a .45 calibre solution to the problem.
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality. Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, David Lynch.
Whole Lotta Leslie!
In this adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s hallucinatory, once-thought unfilmable novel Naked Lunch, directed by David Cronenberg, a part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict named Bill Lee (Robocop’s Peter Weller) plunges into the nightmarish Interzone, a netherworld of sinister cabals and giant talking bugs. Alternately humorous and grotesque—and always surreal—the film mingles aspects of Burroughs’s novel with incidents from the writer’s own life, resulting in an evocative paranoid fantasy and a self-reflexive investigation into the mysteries of the creative process.
A documentary which follows wrestler Scott “Raven” Levy as he reshaped 1990s ECW with a dark, chaotic style, blending backstage excess, legendary interviews, and reflections on wrestling’s extreme, high-stakes culture. Raven, Chris Jericho, Billy Corgan,
Quintessential 80s gory horror! A party at an abandoned funeral parlor and former lair of a serial killer on Halloween night unleashes a gory living hell. Linnea Quigley, Kevin Tenney, 1988.
Grim, expressionistic classic about a sinister preacher who’s nefarious motives are uncovered by a pair of children. Robert Mitchum, Charles Laughton, 1955.
A US Army psychiatrist must assess the mental fitness of top Nazi leaders, especially Hermann Göring, as the historic Nuremberg Trials begin and legal justice reshapes post-war order. Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, James Vanderbilt, 2025.
In 1968, the elderly David “Noodles” Aaronson (Robert De Niro) returns to New York, where he had a career in the criminal underground in the ’20s and ’30s. Most of his old friends, like longtime partner Max (James Woods), are long gone, yet he feels his past is unresolved. Told in flashbacks, the film follows Noodles from a tough kid in a Jewish slum in New York’s Lower East Side, through his rise to bootlegger and then Mafia boss — a journey marked by violence, betrayal and remorse.
Kaneto Shindo’s chilling retelling of the nightmarish folktale of an impoverished older woman, her daughter-in-law and a bedraggled neighbour fresh from battle that they both desire. 1964.
Serenely minimalist ode to the miracle the average and featuring an award-winning central performance of few words but extraordinary expressiveness. Koji Yakusho, Wim Wenders, 2023.
Whole Lotta Tall Man!
John Waters’ infamous and daring cinematic transgression! On Criterion!
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman. Adèle Haenel, Noémie Merlant, Céline Sciamma, 2019
Brilliant double feature of kicking ass!
Grace couldn’t be happier after she marries the man of her dreams at his family’s luxurious estate. There’s just one catch — she must now hide from midnight until dawn while her new in-laws hunt her down with guns, crossbows and other weapons. As Grace desperately tries to survive the night, she soon finds a way to turn the tables on her not-so-lovable relatives.
An officially “dead” cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the US President. Fred Ward, Wilford Brimley, Kate Mulgrew, Guy Hamilton, 1985.
One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Seven Samurai tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits. This three-hour-plus ride from Akira Kurosawa—featuring legendary actors Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura—seamlessly weaves philosophy and entertainment, delicate human emotions and relentless action, into a rich, evocative, and unforgettable tale of courage and hope.
Returning exhausted from the Crusades to find medieval Sweden gripped by the Plague, a knight (Max von Sydow) suddenly comes face-to-face with the hooded figure of Death, and challenges him to a game of chess. As the fateful game progresses, and the knight and his squire encounter a gallery of outcasts from a society in despair, Ingmar Bergman mounts a profound inquiry into the nature of faith and the torment of mortality. One of the most influential films of its time, The Seventh Seal is a stunning allegory of man’s search for meaning and a work of stark visual poetry.
YOU KNOW THE DRILL. Put on your PJs and say your prayers…it’s time for one nightmare of an all-nighter with a double dose of slashtastic cult classics: The Slumber Party Massacre and Slumber Party Massacre II! In The Slumber Party Massacre, Trish (Michele Michaels) invites her high school basketball teammates over for a night they’ll never forget—or survive—when an unexpected guest crashes the party: an escaped psychopath with a portable power drill. And in the freaky follow-up Slumber Party Massacre II, Courtney (Crystal Bernard) is tormented by dreams of the infamous Driller Killer returning to wreak havoc…only to find that (bad) dreams really do come true when the murderous monster is reincarnated as an evil rocker.
German comedy, hunting down the murderer of their families in an anarchic Berlin of the near future, two outlaws find themselves trapped in a wicked fairytale circle of revenge. Adolfo J. Kolmerer (2017)
Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic post apocalyptic landscape. 1979.
Faithful TV miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s sprawling post-apocalyptic novel of the battle between good and evil. Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Rob Lowe, Mick Garris, 1994.
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE: THE ORIGINAL RESTORED VERSION is the film moviegoers would have seen in 1951 had not Legion of Decency censorship occurred at the last minute. Elia Kazan masterfully directs Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece s tarring Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden and Kim Hunter. Nominated for an unprecedented 12 Academy Awards , including Best Picture, and a winner of four,* its contributions to film continue to be celebrated, and it holds a place on the AFI’s list of Top 100 Films.
The complete series to relive your childhood with!
Tammy is a popular high school cheerleader whose new boyfriend, Michael, might be the love of her life. But Tammy’s jealous ex, Billy, won’t stand for anyone coming between him and ‘his’ girl, so he and his friends kidnap Michael, leaving him to be mauled by a lion in a local wildlife reserve.
A riveting action-thriller full of style and grit! A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner. Willem Dafoe, William Petersen, John Turturro, Dean Stockwell, William Friedkin, 1985.
Whole Lotta Burt Gummer!
There’s no shortage of magnificent Douglas Fir trees in Twin Peaks. Immerse yourself in the entire universe of Twin Peaks with this definitive collection which includes Seasons 1 and 2 of The Original Series?, A Limited Event Series, Fire Walk with Me, and 4K Ultra Hi-Def versions of the Original Series Pilot and Part 8 of A Limited Event Series?, plus so much more! So grab a cup of coffee, a slice of cherry pie, and experience the legendary mystery…again and again!
A young man embarks on an obsessive search for the girlfriend who mysteriously disappeared while the couple were taking a sunny vacation trip, and his three-year investigation draws the attention of her abductor, a mild-mannered professor with a diabolically clinical mind. An unorthodox love story and a truly unsettling thriller, Dutch filmmaker George Sluizer’s The Vanishing unfolds with meticulous intensity, leading to an unforgettable finale that has unnerved audiences around the world.
And there we go guys…movies should be here Thursday/ Friday.
