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
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
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
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
Timber Timbre is a Canadian music group, featuring Taylor Kirk, Simon Trottier, Mathieu Charbonneau and Mark Wheaton. Timber Timbre’s sound has been described as “an aesthetic rooted in swampy, ragged blues” and “beautifully restrained blues from an alternate universe”, which creates an atmosphere that is… 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 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
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
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
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
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
Puma Blue is the alias of South Londoner Jacob Allen, who has been delicately honing his purposefully paradoxical sound, blending downtown jazz sax lines with J Dilla grooves and a heart-wrenching vocal akin to Jeff Buckley, Chet Baker and Billie… 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
Dogman is a 2018 Italian drama film directed by Matteo Garrone. It was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Marcello is a simple man, whose life revolves around his grooming salon for dogs and his daughter Sofia; Simone is a former… Continue Reading
A young woman, tired from her daily routine, falls asleep on the train ride home. What happens next is unfortunately predictable. She awakes to find a man doing something so wildly inappropriate, it will have a lasting and damaging effect… Continue Reading
A Prayer Before Dawn is a 2017 drama film directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, written by Jonathan Hirschbein and Nick Saltrese and starring Joe Cole. It is based on the book A Prayer Before Dawn: My Nightmare in Thailand’s Prisons by Billy Moore. The film tells the… 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
Eraserhead is a 1977 American body horror film written, produced, and directed by David Lynch. Shot in black and white, it is Lynch’s first feature-length film, following several short works. Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near, and Jack Fisk, it tells the story of Henry Spencer… 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
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
Najlepszy (Breaking the limits in the english version) is Łukasz Palkowski’s directorial debut, with a script by Agatha Dominik and Maciej Karpiński. It tells the story of Jerzy Górski, a man who until the release of the film, was virtually unknown… 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