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
Thelma & Louise is a 1991 American female buddy road film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri. It stars Geena Davis as Thelma and Susan Sarandon as Louise, two friends who embark on a road trip which ends up in unforeseen… Continue Reading
A bizarre, yet compelling amalgamation of tones, Sew Torn is both dark and clever. A fun little ride short film that continually manages to surprise the viewer across it’s quick run-time. It’s also a perfect encapsulation of what I love about the… Continue Reading
Whiteout from writer/director Lance Edmands is a tense, well-crafted single-take short. The gimmick here, as a cinematic device, is that everything takes place from the perspective of the backseat of a car. Taking place on a dark rural road in the… 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
Nathan John Feuerstein known by his initials NF is an American rapper, singer and songwriter. Feuerstein has credited Eminem as his prime influence in hip hop, claiming that at one point that was all he listened to. NF’s style has also been compared to Logic and Machine Gun… Continue Reading
Can you simultaneously be two things or does that make you neither? Alma is in between everything: raised in the Netherlands by Bosnian parents, no longer a girl, but not really a woman yet. She hardly knows her father, but… Continue Reading
Tschick (Goodbye Berlin in the english version) is a German 2016 comedy-drama film directed by Fatih Akin, based on Wolfgang Herrndorf’s bestselling 2010 novel Tschick (released as Why We Took the Car in English countries). The film depicts two teenage outsiders from Berlin who go on an eccentric roadtrip… Continue Reading
You may or may not be aware of Her’s (Stephen Fitzpatrick and Audun Laading), but the band are slowly and surely beginning to make themselves known across the UK. The duo, quite differently, consist of a guitar player and singer, as well… Continue Reading
The Prodigy is an English electronic music band from Essex, England, formed in 1990 by keyboardist and songwriter Liam Howlett. The first line-up of the band also included MC and vocalist Maxim, dancer and vocalist Keith Flint, dancer and live keyboardist Leeroy Thornhill, and dancer and vocalist Sharky. Along with the… 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
Small Black is an American indie band from Brooklyn, New York. After releasing the critically acclaimed Small Black EP, the band signed to Jagjaguwar to release their debut full length, New Chain (2010). Their second full length, Limits of Desire was released in May 2013, with the single “No Stranger” a mainstay… Continue Reading
A tale of two foolhardy boys goofing around in the Quebec wilderness, Jeremy Comte’s captivating short film Fauve soon takes a dramatic turn that sees its young protagonists pitted against nature. Shocking and unflinching, this deserved winner of the Special Jury Prize… Continue Reading
La Huida (The runaway in the english version) from director Víctor Carrey, is one of those films that gives the viewer too many details right at the beginning. However, it does neatly tie everything up in the end, from the random passing… Continue Reading
Phantogram (formerly Charlie Everywhere) is an American music duo from Greenwich, New York, formed in 2007 and consisting of Josh Carter (vocals, guitar) and Sarah Barthel (vocals, keyboards). The band name was inspired by an optical illusion called a phantogram, in which two-dimensional images appear to be three-dimensional. The band… Continue Reading
The Karate Kid is a 1984 American martial arts drama film produced by Jerry Weintraub, directed by John G. Avildsen, written by Robert Mark Kamen, in which a martial arts master agrees to teach karate to a bullied teenager. It stars Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, William Zabka and Elisabeth Shue. It is… Continue Reading
Brawl in Cell Block 99 is a 2017 American action thriller film written, directed and scored by S. Craig Zahler. In which a former boxer-turned-drug runner lands in a prison battleground after a deal gets deadly. It stars Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson, Udo Kier, Marc Blucas and Tom Guiry. It was screened… Continue Reading
Tuff Turf is a 1985 American drama film directed by Fritz Kiersch and starring James Spader and Kim Richards. Morgan (Spader) is a troubled teenager from Connecticut who relocates to Los Angeles with his parents after his father’s business goes under. Morgan struggles to make friends, and trouble ensues… 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
A young woman in search of a better life utilizes a Norwegian market ready to sell her goods. Taxfree, directed by Henry K. Norvalls, is a portrayal of the hidden human trafficking which is current in the outskirts of the big… Continue Reading
ALEX is a new retro wave producer and musician based in the UK, who makes music under the label NewRetroWave. If the success of Stranger Things and the upcoming Spielberg adaptation of Ready Player One tell us anything, it’s that nostalgia for the 1980s is… Continue Reading
A man alone at night in a booth with a light flickering on an empty parking lot, save for a single deserted car. To kill time the man picks up an iPad from the Lost & Found box and discovers… Continue Reading
Heidi Miami Marshall’s Muscle explores the ambivalence of a wife who is tasked with taking care of her dying husband, as she struggles with the relationship itself, which started falling apart before the sickness hit. It is a slow-paced, thoughtful film that… Continue Reading
Police is a 1985 French romantic crime drama film directed by Maurice Pialat and starring Gérard Depardieu, Sophie Marceau, and Sandrine Bonnaire. Written by Catherine Breillat, the film is about a moody, jaded police detective investigating a drug ring who falls for a mysterious woman and is drawn into… 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
Apocalypse Now Now is a proof-of-concept of rare quality and pedigree directed by Michael Matthews. Based off a celebrated series by author Charlie Human, this short is a brief introduction to the world of Baxter Zevcenko (Garion Dowds). A snarky, monster-porn-dealing… Continue Reading
Sports is an American indie rock band from Gambier, Ohio. Sports formed in 2012 when all members were attending Kenyon College. They released their first full-length album in 2014 on Bandcamp titled Sunchokes. In 2015, Sports signed to Father/Daughter Records, where they released their second full-length album titled All Of… Continue Reading
Directed and written by Christopher Winterbauer, Break Down is a low-key, darkly comic, but also poignant take on a couple who has reached the end of their path together. The short film genius is how it merges so many disparate tones. It’s… Continue Reading
Mint Royale was an electronic music group, hailing from Manchester, England. They were founded by the duo Neil Claxton and Chris Baker in 1997. Baker left the band in 2004, but Claxton continued to produce music using the Mint Royale name until 2016. Mint… Continue Reading
The Hitcher is a 1986 American road action-horror film directed by Robert Harmon and written by Eric Red. It stars Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Jeffrey DeMunn. Howell plays Jim, a young man who gives a ride to a hitchhiker, played by Hauer. After narrowly escaping death,… 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
Two runaway teens steal a car with dreams of heading down to Florida, but things take a dark turn after a dangerous game. A suspense short film written and directed by Robbie Barclay. He shot the film over the course… Continue Reading
Strassenkaiser is a a road movie through the streets of Berlin, from backyards, parks and bars up to a tower. In an intoxicated Berlin by the summer carnival, there is Noah, a 12 year old boy, non-local, supposed to meet… Continue Reading
When a father and son are independently terrorised by the same gang of youths, Dad is forced to deal with fears that he hasn’t had to face since leaving school, rediscovering his fear of confrontation at the worst possible time.… Continue Reading
Youth Lagoon was the stage name of the Boise, Idaho-based American musician Trevor Powers, active as Youth Lagoon from 2010-2016. His music was described as net-psychedelia, and included elements of Americana and experimental. Youth Lagoon’s debut album, The Year of Hibernation, was released in 2011, based on minimalism and hypnotic ambience melded… Continue Reading
The Robbery is Jim Cummings short film, follow-up to Thunder Road, the 2016 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, and the comedy runner-up in recently announced Shorts of the Week awards. Featuring a sterling performance from Rae Gray in the lead role, this film… Continue Reading
With influences that span the spacy experiments of the United States of America, the expansive, cinematic sounds of Ennio Morricone, and glamorous ’80s synth pop, Still Corners is the project of Greg Hughes and Tessa Murray. The group formed shortly after Hughes, an American expatriate, met Murray by chance at… Continue Reading
Gone goodbye is a short film directed by Keith Rivers, that explores relationships and privacy in unusual and surprising ways. It can be difficult to find a short film where the director has so successfully managed to craft together a… Continue Reading
Arizona Dream is a 1993 American surrealist comedy drama film co-written and directed by Emir Kusturica and starring Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis, Faye Dunaway, Vincent Gallo and Lili Taylor. Axel has a dream about an Eskimo who catches a rare halibut and brings it back to his family in an igloo. Axel’s cousin Paul coaxes Axel from… Continue Reading
Mon Roi (My king in the english version) is a 2015 French drama film directed by Maïwenn. Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious skiing accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a… Continue Reading