Rebecca
In Monte Carlo, a nameless woman (Joan Fontaine) is companion to Mrs van Hopper (Florence Bates) who’s so awful she has to pay people to spend time with her. When […]
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A Tale of Two Sisters
Two sisters (Im Soo-jung and Moon Geun-young) suspect there’s something off about their stepmother (Yum Jung-ah) when they open the fridge door to find a bloody fish next to the peanut […]
Fantastic Planet
On a distant planet populated by the Draags, a race of giant blue aliens, humans are booth pets and pests. When one of their number, Terr (Jean Valmont, Eric Baugin), […]
Underwater
A deep-sea driller (Kristen Stewart) does some serious offshore boring in her latest box office bellyflop. Hot on the heels of the now long-forgotten Charlie’s Angels reboot, Stewart reaches new […]
Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger
Two years before his death, this 1988 documentary spotlights one of the world’s greatest drummers and bandleaders. Dick Fontaine and Pat Hartley’s fly-on-the-wall style avoids the usual retrospective approach by […]
The Way He Looks
Blind, classical music-obsessed teen Leo (Ghilherme Lobo) struggles to fit in at school and strives to find independence from his over-protective parents. He’s helped by supportive best friend Giovana (Tess […]
I Saw the Devil
I sometimes wonder what Secret Cinema would be like in South Korea. Do they put you in a box for 15 years then feed you a live octopus and chase […]
Parasite
The Kim family (Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Chang Hyae-jin, Song Kang-ho) scratch a living in their tiny basement apartment and enjoy getting drunk on cheap lager. But when son Ki-woo […]
Queen & Slim
While on their first date, Queen and Slim (Jodie Turner-Smith and Daniel Kaluuya) are pulled over by a racist cop (Sturgill Simpson). When a struggle ensues they shoot him with […]
The Lighthouse
Two men (Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe) go insane on a tiny island in The Lighthouse, or Brexit: The Movie. Essentially The Shining in a lighthouse (The Brining?), this loose […]
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