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
Enter the Void is a 2009 English-language French drama film written and directed by Gaspar Noé and starring Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, and Cyril Roy. Set in the neon-lit nightclub environments of Tokyo, the story follows Oscar, a young American drug dealer who gets shot by… Continue Reading
Psycho is a 1960 American psychological horror film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by Joseph Stefano. It stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles, and Martin Balsam, and was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film centers on an encounter between… 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
Walking alone in a city shouldn’t be an adrenaline-inducing experience. Taking public transport by oneself shouldn’t be a fraught choice. For women it can be though, and Shelly Lauman’s Birdie taps into that universal fear and confronts its viewers with a scenario… Continue Reading
Ruby Haunt (fka Haunt) is a musical project conceived by childhood friends Wyatt Ininns and Victor Pakpour via opposite ends of the coast (Los Angeles and Portland). The duo wrote their first three EPs this way, exchanging musical ideas over email, removed from any sort of immediacy… Continue Reading
When a desperate Grace (Deborah Puette) walks into the Queen of Persia Gold Emporium, all she wants is to get in and out with some badly needed cash and a shred of her dignity intact. Things do not look promising… Continue Reading
Mauvais Sang (Bad Blood in the english version), also known as The Night Is Young, is Leos Carax’s second film. Released in 1986, the film played at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival before being nominated for 3 César Awards and winning the Prix Louis-Delluc. Set a few… 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
Matt Porter’s Damage short film is just a perfectly executed little slice of life; short, understated, and hilarious, and also, it’s still emotionally real. It’s the kind of film that covers a spectrum of highs and lows in just seven minutes. Mitch &… Continue Reading
El bar (The bar in the english version) is a 2017 Spanish black comedy thriller film directed, produced and co-written by Álex de la Iglesia. A group of completely different people are trapped inside a cafe in Madrid; anyone that leaves is immediately shot by… Continue Reading
The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American epic war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Russian American steelworkers whose lives were changed forever after they fought in the Vietnam War. The three soldiers are played by Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and John Savage, with John Cazale (in his… Continue Reading
From a seed to war, from meat to love, from indifference to apocalypse. An attempt to capture the world in a nutshell. A kinetic stop motion journey that captures the very essence of humanity, Fabio Friedli’s multi-lauded animation is the aptly… Continue Reading
John Maus is an American musician, singer, songwriter, composer, and philosopher from Minnesota. His music is often compared to 1980s synth-pop due to its appropriation of vintage synthesizer sounds and Medieval church modes, and he is recognized as a forerunner to the late 2000s hypnagogic pop movement. He is also a… Continue Reading
David Brundige’s short Haircut is a well-written fight verbal sequence, but in a way it is depicted with the same attention to rhythm and space that any good action flick would. In the film a modern couple devolves into increasingly vicious recrimination when, to her… Continue Reading
Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and Deborah Harry. Set in Toronto during the early 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small UHF television station who stumbles upon a broadcast signal featuring extreme violence and torture.… Continue Reading
Dita Von Teese is an American vedette, burlesque dancer, model, costume designer, entrepreneur, singer, and actress. She is credited with re-popularizing burlesque performance, earning the moniker “Queen of Burlesque”. Written and co-produced by French songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sébastien Tellier, her album, inspired by von Teese’s erotic… 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
Los gritones (The screamers in the english version) was written and directed by Spanish filmmaker Roberto Perez Toledo, in which a man and a woman are looking out from a graffiti strewn rooftop and start screaming for fun. However, an uncomfortable situation awaits them, when… Continue Reading
Badlands is a 1973 American crime film written and directed by Terrence Malick, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, and featuring Warren Oates and Ramon Bieri. The story, though fictional, is loosely based on the real-life murder spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, in 1958, though that basis was not acknowledged… 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
Set in Japan’s capital, Tokyo Project tells the story of a mysterious romance between two strangers (played by Elisabeth Moss and Ebon Moss-Bachrach) as they explore the hidden treasures of the city. Written and directed by longtime Girls collaborator Richard Shepard, who helmed several of the HBO series’… Continue Reading
In den Gängen (In the aisles in the english version) is a 2018 German drama film directed by Thomas Stuber. Christian begins to work as a shelf stacker at a supermarket and finds himself in a new, unknown world: the long aisles, the… Continue Reading
Fern is a six-minute short film commissioned by Channel 4. It is written and directed by Johnny Kelly, produced by Nexus Studios and starring Monica Dolan. A recently widowed woman finds a withered houseplant. As she nurtures it back to life the plant,… Continue Reading
Laura Pergolizzi is an American singer and songwriter who performs under the stage name LP. Physically a cross between John Cooper Clarke and Patti Smith, vocally a blend of Gwen Stefani and Cyndi Lauper, LP alchemises that patchwork into something not currently available elsewhere. In… Continue Reading
Fascination is a 1979 erotic horror film from controversial cult director Jean Rollin, considered one of his best. Set in 1916, it tells the story of a thief who seeks refuge in a castle owned by two women, Eva (Brigitte Lahaie)… Continue Reading
Un amour de jeunesse (Goodby first love in the english version) is a 2011 Franco-German film directed by Mia Hansen-Løve. The film is chronicle of the romance between Camille and Sullivan, which begins during their adolescence and picks up after Sullivan’s 8-year… Continue Reading
A 20 minute dialogue-driven dramedy where two people literally sit in one place for the film’s entire duration isn’t exactly the easiest sell for an online audience. But in Joe Gillette’s sweet and expertly performed little slice of life is… Continue Reading
Millionyoung (sometimes stylized as MillionYoung) is the pseudonym of Floridian indie/electronica producer Mike Diaz. Describedas chillwave by some reviewers, Millionyoung’s sound includes electronic and sampled elements coupled with vocals from Diaz, like Toro Y Moi’s Chaz Bundwick and Washed Out’s Ernest Greene, is all about etiolated euphoria, using… Continue Reading
Krishna and Garfield wake up after a boozy night out, hungover and confused. Guarded, the two awkwardly dance around each other and the events of the previous evening, with pieces of the puzzle slowly added to paint a fuller picture of how… Continue Reading
With a taste of orgies and other odd adventures, L’Impératrice (‘the Empress’ in French) takes you on a spiritual trip, on an Odyssée, throughout past and future decades of disco-inspired sounds with a cinematic twist. Like a dozen other self-produced acts originating… Continue Reading
Clara and Francis are having a chill day, eating pasta, reading the newspapers. When Francis tries to initiate a more pleasurable activity, everything seems to get in the way. A refreshing portrait of the un-glamorous side to sex, director Geneviève… 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
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
Seth Haley (known by his stage name Com Truise) is an American electronic musician from Oneida, New York. His Com Truise stage name is a spoonerism of the name of American actor Tom Cruise. Originally an art director, he turned in his resignation prior to his first release as Com Truise. Prior to that,… 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… 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
Breathless takes us into the rarely-glimpsed world of synchronized swimming to depict an operatic story of love, jealousy, and betrayal, yet, in a dazzling twist, the camera never leaves the pool. A random internet video of synchronized swimmers from under the water was… Continue Reading
Following his critically acclaimed 2015 debut Another Half Life, Tobias Siebert now returns with a second solo full-length called Breaking With Habits in early 2018. Deep in the heart of what appears to be Berlin’s unstoppable gentrification process, treasures of sub-culture are still there,… Continue Reading
Los decentes (A decent woman in the english version) is a satire film directed by Lukas Valente Rinner, in which housemaid Belen (Iride Mockert), working in an exclusive gated community in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, embarks on a journey… Continue Reading