A glitz and glamour trip through gorgeous 1960s Paris with a true sense of style via Hepburn’s elegant costumes and essence of cool – Charade portrays a stark contrast to the stale, lifeless churn of modern-day Hollywood and their current IP model.
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Beyond its explicit nature, Stranger by the Lake is an expertly crafted slow-burner made in the vein of a Hitchock thriller a la Rear Window.
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One of the boldest science-fiction epics never finished is now available in its restored form.
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A recent restoration has breathed new life into Borden’s politically charged work and it is now more accessible than ever.
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Filled with surreal gothic imagery and macabre violence, and a visual language from cinematographer Dick Pope that takes cues from early Terrance Malick work like Days of Heaven, The Reflecting Skin is a beautifully dark viewing experience.
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The Conversation was the least revered of and commercially successful but has since been regarded in equal acclaim to Coppola's seminal epics.
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Surge demonstrates Whishaw’s impressive range as an actor for his turn in Aneil Karia's visceral thriller.
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Dead Pigs revolves around an ensemble cast of characters all in some way struggling with their identity and place in modern-day Shanghai.
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This graphic novel-esqe crime story takes place in a decaying, nameless concrete town somewhere in modern China. The story centers around a stolen bag of money and the hapless no-hopers attempting to chase it down.
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Before Nicolas Winding Refn shot to mainstream fame with the modern cult classic Drive and the divisive Giallo-influenced horror Neon Demon, he made the Pusher trilogy in his native Denmark - a trio of loosely connected crime dramas set deep within the dark underbelly of Copenhagen.
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Park Chan-wook’s underrated psychological thriller Stoker, dripping in gothic atmosphere and with a leading turn from Mia Wasikowska – who also stars in Del Toro’s horror-romance Crimson Peak – is a lavishly stylish and gloriously sensory experience.
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Mica Levi provides the perfect eerie and unsettling score as we travel through jungles and across mountains where this film never fails to hypnotize. A surreal, feverish tour-de-force that should not be slept on.
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