Risky Business is a 1983 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Paul Brickman, making his directorial debut. It stars Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay. The film launched Cruise to stardom. It covers themes including materialism, loss of innocence, coming of age and capitalism; when a Chicago teenager is looking for fun… Continue Reading
Misery is a 1990 American psychological thriller film based on Stephen King’s 1987 novel and starring James Caan as writer Paul Sheldon and Kathy Bates as obsessed fan Annie Wilkes. After a car accident, Sheldon is trapped in his vehicle in the middle of… Continue Reading
The kind of short film where you’ll need a minute to recover after the credits roll, Tom Noakes’ Nursery Rhymes disorientates its audience initially via a surreal, contextless opening. Confusion gives way to a slowly unfolding puzzle however, serving up revelations all the… Continue Reading
A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess’s 1962 novel of the same name. It employs disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian… Continue Reading
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a 1987 American comedy film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes. The film stars Steve Martin as Neal Page, a high-strung marketing executive, who meets Del Griffith, played by John Candy, an eternally optimistic, outgoing, overly talkative, and clumsy shower curtain ring salesman.… Continue Reading
Good Time is a 2017 American crime film directed by Ben and Josh Safdie. After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Constantine Nikas (Robert Pattinson) embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City’s underworld in an increasingly desperate-and dangerous-attempt to… Continue Reading
The War of the Roses is a 1989 American black comedy film based upon the 1981 novel of the same name by Warren Adler. The film follows a wealthy couple with a seemingly perfect marriage. When their marriage begins to fall apart, material possessions become the center… Continue Reading
Blood And Water is a short film by writer/director Brian Blum, about how an Olympic diver’s relationship with his mother deteriorates as he fails to bounce back from a horrific training accident. It doesn’t innovate much on a somehow common sport… Continue Reading
Shot Caller is an American crime thriller film directed and written by Ric Roman Waugh, about a family man that is sent to prison after a fatal traffic accident. While inside, he is faced with criminals convicted for far worse crimes than his, so… Continue Reading
Henry is in an awkward predicament. His attempts to teach his attractive student how to drive interfere with him trying to seduce her. Black comedy about love, colliding expectations and the importance of the handbrake. A short film directed by… Continue Reading
Unremarkable is a short film written and directed by Jared Anderson about the journey of a woman’s body who is shot and killed on a vacation with her family. The film deals with the death at its beginning in arguably the… Continue Reading
Six characters meet in a public bathhouse: the pedant bathhouse manager, a couple with a strange way of communicating and a gang with shady intentions. Something goes wrong. An animated short film from Niki Lindroth von Bahr screened at multiple festivals and… Continue Reading
The ones below is a 2015 British thriller film and the debut feature from writer-director David Farr, starring the ensemble cast of Clémence Poésy, David Morrissey, Stephen Campbell Moore and Laura Birn. Blending an element of urban dread with an… Continue Reading
The Blackout is a 1997 American drama film directed by Abel Ferrara, in which a debauched Hollywood movie actor tries to piece together one wild night in Miami years earlier which remains a drug-induced blur, and soon finds out that some questions about his past… Continue Reading
A dark coming of age tale about what it means to have a moral compass, Rollo Wenlock’s film, A Bend in the Road, is a striking representation of the sometimes violent transition from boyhood to manhood. Set in the backlands of… Continue Reading
Ormie is a Pig, in every sense of the word. Pig see cookie. Pig want cookie. But they are out of reach…or are they? See Ormie’s attempts to gain the warm sweet taste that is his obsession. A short film… Continue Reading
The Toxic Avenger is a 1984 American superhero horror comedy film directed by Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman (credited as Samuel Weil) and written by Kaufman and Joe Ritter. Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat… Continue Reading
Carnival of Souls is a 1962 American independent horror film starring Candace Hilliness. Its plot follows a young woman whose life is disturbed after a car accident, finding herself drawn to the pavilion of an abandoned carnival. Set to an organ score by Gene Moore, Carnival of Souls relies more on atmosphere than… Continue Reading
Mar adentro (The sea inside in the english version) is a 2004 Spanish drama film written, produced, directed and scored by Alejandro Amenábar. It is based on the real-life story of Ramón Sampedro (played by Javier Bardem), who was left quadriplegic after a diving accident, and his 28-year campaign in… Continue Reading
Ishtar X Tussilago is a short film by Maceo Frost starring downhill longboard rider Ishtar Backlund in the epic mountains of Norway. Combined with a magical soundtrack from Swedish rock band Tussilago, the film is a glimpse into the profound… Continue Reading
The Darjeeling Limited is a 2007 comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson, and starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Jason Schwartzman. A year after their father’s funeral, three brothers travel across India by train in an attempt to bond with each other. It was written by Anderson, Schwartzman, and Roman… Continue Reading
Even Cowboys Get to Cry (Cowboys Janken Ook is the original dutch title) illustrates the rapid and ruthless coming-of-age for the boys, propelled into adulthood by an accident that brings fear, guilt, anger and the precariousness of their friendship. It’s the… Continue Reading
Every Thing Will Be Fine is a 2015 German drama film directed by Wim Wenders and written by Bjørn Olaf Johannessen, and released in 3D. The film centres around Tomas (James Franco), a writer who causes an accident while driving and spends the next 12 years… Continue Reading
Marcos Ortega, better known by his stage name Lorn, is an American electronic musician. Lorn is from either Milwaukee, Wisconsin or central Illinois. He received early exposure as a DJ due to his remix of grime musician Jammer’s track “Better Than”. Lorn signed with Flying Lotus’ label, Brainfeeder, in 2009 and released his debut album, Nothing Else,… Continue Reading
Drive is a 2011 American neo-noir arthouse crime film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Ryan Gosling,Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Oscar Isaac and Albert Brooks. It is adapted from the 2005 James Sallis novel of the same name, with a screenplay by Hossein Amini. Like the book, the film is about an unnamed Hollywood stunt performer (played by… Continue Reading
The zenith of Don McGlashan and Harry Sinclair’s legendary Front Lawn collaborations, this iconic 1988 Kiwi short follows two men and one woman on a rainy night at a deserted bar. Pivoting on amnesia and woven together by music, two… Continue Reading
Crash is a 1996 Canadian-British psychological thriller film written and directed by David Cronenberg based on J. G. Ballard’s 1973 novel of the same name. It tells the story of a group of people who take sexual pleasure from car accidents, a notable form of paraphilia. The film… Continue Reading
Relatos salvajes (Wild tales in the english version) is a 2014 Argentine-Spanish black comedy–drama film written and directed by Damián Szifrón. An anthology film, it is composed of six standalone shorts united by a common theme of violence and vengeance. Inequality, injustice and the demands of the world… Continue Reading
Les petits mouchoirs (Little White Lies in the english version) is a 2010 French comedy-drama film written and directed by Guillaume Canet. In a Parisian nightclub, party man Ludo (Jean Dujardin) takes off late at night on his scooter, where he’s blindsided by… Continue Reading
Non ti muovere (Don’t move in the english version) is a 2004 italian film directed by Sergio Castellitto. Timoteo (Castellitto), a surgeon, gets the shocking news that his fifteen-year old daughter Angela (Elena Perino) has been seriously injured in a motorcycle accident. As… Continue Reading
Oscar-nominated dark comedy short film about the frustrations of being stuck in traffic while your wife cheats on you.