The vampire genre gets an injection of 70s giallo glamour thanks to a cast which includes Jane Birkin, Hiram Keller and Anton Diffring in Antonio Margheriti’s Seven Deaths In The Cat’s Eye. This compelling chiller is set in Scotland where, in a crumbling old castle, its inhabitants are being bumped off one-by-one. Could the legend […]
Ryan Gosling stars in this triptych of tales that follows the impact that a father’s actions have on the generations that follow. Told in three narrative arcs set over a period of 15 years, the story begins when itinerant carnival stunt rider Luke (Gosling) discovers that former flame Romina (Eva Mendes) is raising the infant […]
Deception is dangerous. Desire is deadly. Al Pacino gives a powerful, critically acclaimed performance in this highly charged erotic thriller. Veteran New York City police detective Frank Keller (Pacino) is a workaholic cop living on the edge. Joining forces with detective Sherman Touhey (John Goodman) to track down a bizarre serial killer, he encounters a […]
A triple bill of sci-fi cops. The first film, ‘Robocop’, is set in the near future and Detroit’s soaring crime rate is unsuccessfully policed by a corporation which plans to build a new city, if its workers can go about unmolested. When its new ‘enforcement droid’ proves unworkable, a murdered cop (Peter Weller) is wired […]
All 12 feature-length episodes from the first four series of the BBC crime drama starring Kenneth Branagh as the Swedish detective. Inspector Kurt Wallander (Branagh) and his team at Ystad police station investigate a number of violent and terrifying murders in the beautiful setting of Skane County, Southern Sweden. Series 1 episodes are: ‘Sidetracked’, ‘Firewall’ […]
Inspired by true events – Follows the story of two corrupt policemen Sammy Canzano (David Arquette) and Leo Beneti (Jeremy Luke) who committed a series of horrific assassinations and other crimes for the New York crime families in the mid-1980’s to 1990’s. Meanwhile, NYPD detectives Varrone (Kevin Connolly) and Delgado (Danny A Abeckaser) must carefully […]
Police inspector Matteo Rolandi (Claudio Cassinelli, The Suspicious Death Of A Minor) witnesses a massacre in a hotel when a bomb explodes and kills dozens of civilians. The prime suspect, a young political activist (Bruno Zanin, Amarcord), is shot dead soon after, despite being under the protection of General Attorney Di Federico (Arthur Kennedy, The […]
Vincent Cassel stars in this cult French drama written and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Set in a poor suburb outside Paris, three youths, Vinz (Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé) and Said (Saïd Taghmaoui), become involved in anti-police riots following a police attack that results in their friend Abdel (Abdel Ahmed Ghili) being put in a coma. […]
Legendary action director John Woo (Face/Off, Mission: Impossible II) returns with a radical reimagining of his 1989 Hong Kong classic, The Killer. Zee (Nathalie Emmanuel), a mysterious and infamous assassin known as the “Queen of the Dead” in the Parisian underworld, becomes the centre of a manhunt when she refuses an assignment from her shadowy […]
In the 1980s special make-up effects artists became stars, pushing the boundaries of what could be shown on screen as audiences around the world reacted with shock and delight. No surprise then that sooner or later theyd get a movie that made them the hero. In F/X: Murder by Illusion, Rollie Tyler (Bryan Brown) is […]
