Here we are again. Another new week of cinema is upon us and this week brings us some classics for the first time and many best sellers once again. Let us take a look shall we…
Troubled Italian filmmaker Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) struggles with creative stasis as he attempts to get a new movie off the ground. Overwhelmed by his work and personal life, the director retreats into his thoughts, which often focus on his loves, both past and present, and frequently wander into fantastical territory. As he tries to sort out his many entanglements, romantic and otherwise, Anselmi finds his production becoming more and more autobiographical.
Respected scientist and psychology professor Edward Jessup (William Hurt) decides to combine his experiments in sensory deprivation tanks with powerful hallucinogenic drugs, convinced that it may help him unlock different states of consciousness. The experiments are a success at first, but as Jessup continues his work, he begins to experience altered mental and also physical states. As he spends more time in sensory deprivation, his grip on reality begins to slip away.
This animated trek across the musical landscape of the 20th century begins with young immigrant Zalmie (Jeffrey Lippa) arriving in New York City. He’s addicted to show business, but an accident ruins his voice. He marries a stripper (Lisa Jane Persky) and their son, Benny (Richard Singer), becomes a jazz pianist. Although Benny is killed in World War II, his son, Tony (Ron Thompson), goes on to great success as a songwriter during the ’60s, as does Tony’s son, Pete (also Thompson), in the ’80s.
After a nature photographer (Mark L. Taylor) dies on assignment in Venezuela, a poisonous spider hitches a ride in his coffin to his hometown in rural California, where arachnophobe Dr. Ross Jennings (Jeff Daniels) has just moved in with his wife, Molly (Harley Jane Kozak), and young son. As town residents start turning up dead, Jennings begins to suspect spiders, and must face his fears as he and no-nonsense exterminator Delbert McClintock (John Goodman) fight to stop a deadly infestation.
A father and son, both coroners, are pulled into a complex mystery while attempting to identify the body of a young woman, who was apparently harboring dark secrets. André Øvredal (2016)
A cursed hotel, built over one of the seven gateways to hell, becomes a malevolent abyss that begins devouring both the bodies and the souls of all who enter in a graphic frenzy of gory crucifixions, brutal whippings, eyeball impalements, flesh-eating tarantulas, throat-shredding demon dogs and ravenous bloodthirsty zombies in this cult classic from legendary Italian horror master Lucio Fulci.
Blind traveler Zatoichi (Beat Takeshi) is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople. He is also enlisted to help two sibling geisha, Okinu (Yûko Daike) and Osei (Daigorô Tachibana), avenge the murder of their parents, who were slaughtered in a massacre. Zatoichi must fight his way through numerous enemies before finally clashing with a heartless crime boss.
Vanessa Redgrave stars in this stylish crime thriller classic where a mod London photographer may have found evidence of murder in the shots he has taken of a mysterious beauty in a desolate park. Michelangelo Antonioni (1966)
Starring Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper. A severed human ear found in a field leads a young man to investigate a mysterious nightclub singer and the criminals who kidnapped her child. David Lynch (1986)
A horror classic containing one of the most visceral and nauseating scenes in movie history, The Brood follows a man’s investigation into his ex-wife’s placement at an experimental institute. He discovers her progeny of sexless, dwarflike mutants who are born for the sole purpose of acting out Nola’s violent fantasies of revenge. Can he stop Nola’s Brood before they kill again?
A visionary Hungarian architect and his wife flee post-war Europe to build a modernist masterpiece in the US, facing mysterious benefactor, betrayal and corruption. Joel Edgerton, Marion Cotillard, Mark Rylance, Brady Corbet, 2024.
A woman renovates her dream home, but the carpenter she hires has a love for power tools—and murder. Wings Hauser, Lynne Adams, Pierre Lenoir, David Wellington, 1988.
Re-creation of the life of comic genius Charlie Chaplin, from his humble beginnings in south London through his early days in British vaudeville, his silent movie career in America and his late masterpieces. His turbulent personal life saw four marriages and an enforced exile from the US – though he returned to receive an honorary Oscar in 1972.
The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of 1990s cinema and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung Chiu Wai), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out food stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works. Anything goes in Wong’s gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and the Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” into tokens of romantic longing.
In the early 1960s, 19-year-old Bob Dylan arrives in New York with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. Forming his most intimate relationships during his rise to fame, he grows restless with the folk movement, making a controversial choice that reverberates worldwide.
A small group of military officers and scientists dwell in an underground bunker as the world above is overrun by zombies. George A. Romero, 1985.
The chilling story of identical twin gynecologists who share the same practice, same apartment and the same women. When a new patient challenges their eerie bond, they descend into a whirlpool of sexual confusion, drugs and madness.
When a nun in a remote convent claims immaculate conception, the Vatican sends a team of priests to investigate, concerned about an ancient prophecy that a woman will give birth to twin boys: one the Messiah, the other the Anti-Christ. Jelena Rajapu, 2023
After brilliant scientist Dr. Paul Carruthers (Bela Lugosi) develops an ingenious product for a cosmetics company, he is cheated out of his fair share of the profits by his greedy partners. Hell bent for revenge, he decides to turn his laboratory of science into one of doom as he creates a giant race of bats that turn into ripping and shredding beasts of fury, designed to attack anyone wearing the very product he invented. This classic horror film finally gets the beautiful HD remastering it deserves.
Brian De Palma (Carrie) ascended to the highest ranks of American suspense filmmaking with this virtuoso, explicit erotic thriller. At once tongue-in-cheek and scary as hell, Dressed to Kill revolves around the grisly murder of a woman in Manhattan, and what happens when her psychiatrist, her brainiac teenage son, and the prostitute who witnessed the crime try to piece together what happened while the killer remains at large. With its masterfully executed scenes of horror, voluptuous camera work, and passionate score, Dressed to Kill is a veritable symphony of terror, enhanced by vivid performances by Angie Dickinson (Rio Bravo), Michael Caine (Alfie), and Nancy Allen (Blow Out).
A satirical twist on the gory and sexually charged 1980’s slasher genre presented as the only surviving VHS copy of the reviled horror franchise’s third, and final, installment. Tomm Jacobsen, Michael Rousselet, Jon Salmon, 2015.
In the near future, a space station dubbed Earth II is threatened when the Chinese send up a nuclear bomb that is orbiting just a few miles away from the station! Gary Lockwood, Tony Franciosa, Tom Gries, 1971.
Found footage sci-fi thriller about an international crew of astronauts who undertakes a privately funded mission to search for life on Jupiter’s fourth largest moon.
Cronenberg’s obtuse and low-key spoof of the addictive nature of immersive computer games. Willem Dafoe, Jude Law, Ian Holm. 1999.
This is the story of three escaped convicts (led by William Sanderson of Blade Runner as the sickest psycho redneck in cinema history) who take a middle-class Black family hostage for a relentless nightmare of racist humiliation, sexual violence and extreme vengeance. No sleazehound who’s seen it can ever forget Fight For Your Life!
When scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) completes his teleportation device, he decides to test its abilities on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a housefly slips in during the process, leading to a merger of man and insect. Initially, Brundle appears to have undergone a successful teleportation, but the fly’s cells begin to take over his body. As he becomes increasingly fly-like, Brundle’s girlfriend (Geena Davis) is horrified as the person she once loved deteriorates into a monster.
Once an architect, Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his “special” gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife (Trini Alvarado) of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent (Jeffrey Combs).
At an exclusive all-girls college, a group of chronically misbehaving students are “rewarded” for their bad behavior by being assigned with the task of cleaning a magnificent old mansion (with a deadly past) in preparation for its grand re-opening by the school. But when the girls discover – and use – a dusty old Ouija board, they accidentally revive a terrifying evil spirit, which begins dispatching them by cleaver, hook, car, and more. Can they put an end to the carnage before none are left alive?
John Gotti (Armand Assante) rises to head the powerful Gambino crime family before being convicted in 1992 of racketeering and murder.
Stephen King took you to the edge with Carrie, The Shining, Cujo, Pet Sematary and Misery. This time…he pushes you over! Gates Falls, Maine. When an abandoned textile mill is reopened, several employees meet mysterious deaths. The link between the killings: all occurred between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m.—the Graveyard Shift. The sadistic mill foreman has chosen a group to clean up the mill’s rat-infested basement. But what the workers find is a subterranean maze of tunnels leading to the cemetery—and an unimaginable horror that comes alive in the dead of night. Based on the short story by Stephen King, Graveyard Shift offers nerve-gnawing suspense, grisly practical effects and a whole new reason to fear the dark! Starring David Andrews (Cherry 2000), Stephen Macht (The Monster Squad), Kelly Wolf (Triumph of the Spirit), Andrew Divoff (Wishmaster) and Brad Dourif (Death Machine) as The Exterminator.
An infant girl watches in horror as her father, the infamous “Jack the Ripper”, brutally murders her mother. Years later, young Anna (Angharad Rees) is now under the care of a fake psychic and has been forced into prostitution. At the end of a séance one evening, a woman is mysteriously killed. Dr. John Pritchard (Eric Porter) suspects Anna is the murderer…
Chance Boudreaux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a sailor skilled in martial arts, is employed to guard Natasha Binder (Yancy Butler) as she tracks down her father, an itinerant Vietnam veteran living in New Orleans named Douglas (Chuck Pfarrer). They soon uncover a sinister group of wealthy men who hunt the homeless for sport, paying them $10,000 if they can survive a crosstown journey. When Chance discovers that Natasha’s father was one of their victims, he decides to destroy the evil hunters.
The 1976 TV movie “Helter Skelter” recounts the murders committed by the Charles Manson Family, focusing on the investigation, the 1970-71 trial, and the prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi’s efforts to connect the Manson family to the violent convictions.
From the director / star of the Lake Michigan Monster, a live action Looney Tunes meets Guy Maddin story of a drunken applejack salesman who must go from zero to hero and become North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
Released after being imprisoned for assault, a Frenchman finds himself impoverished, alienated and angry.
Robert Zemeckis’ rollicking first feature mines the sweet nostalgia of the story of 6 New Jersey girls in 1964 who embark on a madcap mission to Manhattan to score tickets to the Ed Sullivan Show which will feature the first live appearance on American TV
A sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer comes across a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain the enforcer can only dream about.
With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose…literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life.
Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane’s mysterious vanishing act and ends up in the sleepy little East Coast town of Hobb’s End. The fact that this town exists as a figment of Cane’s twisted imagination is only the beginning of Trent’s problems.
Pirates kidnap tourists to force them to dive into shark-infested waters for sunken drugs. Richard Dreyfuss, Callum McGowan, Christian Sesma, 2025.
A girl group find themselves in the middle of a conspiracy to deliver subliminal messages through popular music.
The Shat stars as veterinarian in an Arizona town infested with a horde of arachnids that turn on the humans whose insecticides have depleted their natural food supply. William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling, Woody Strode. 1977.
Cult TV series about an intrepid newspaper reporter investigates strange supernatural occurrences in Chicago. Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jack Grinnage.
In this indie film that is equal parts Guy Maddin and Sam Raimi, an eccentric ship captain and a crew of specialists plot revenge against the most mysterious creature of the deep — the Lake Michigan Monster. Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, 2019
Urbania, Ohio is home to the OShea brothers, Danny (Rick Moranis) and Kevin (Ed ONeill). Ex-football star Kevins name is on the town water tower. The phonebook is about the only place youll find Dannys name. Year after year, his brothers successes loom over Danny like that water tower. But when Coach Kevin cuts Dannys child, Icebox, from the Pee-Wee Football team, Danny isnt taking it anymore. Suit up for this warmly funny tale of brotherly love on trial and fatherly love in action. Unfairly axed, Becky Icebox OShea (Shawna Waldron) organizes her misfit pals into a rival squad and recruits a coach: good ol Dad! Will these Little Giants pull off a gridiron miracle? This comic crowd-pleaser proves heroes come in all sizes!
An in-depth look into Minnelli’s life during the 1970s, highlighting her personal and professional challenges following her mother’s death. Liza Minnelli, Michael Feinstein, Mia Farrow, Bruce David Klein, 2024.
Based on the best-selling manga series, the six intensely kinetic Lone Wolf and Cub films elevated chanbara to bloody, new heights. The shogun’s executioner, Itto Ogami (Tomisaburo Wakayama), takes to wandering the countryside as an assassin-along with his infant son Daigoro (Akihiro Tomikawa) and an infinitely weaponized perambulator-helping those he encounters while seeking vengeance for his murdered wife. Delivering stylish thrills and a body count that defies belief, Lone Wolf and Cub is beloved for its brilliantly choreographed and unbelievably violent action sequences as well as for its tender depiction of the bonds between parent and child.
Teenage brothers Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim) move with their mother (Dianne Wiest) to a small town in northern California. While the younger Sam meets a pair of kindred spirits in geeky comic-book nerds Edward (Corey Feldman) and Alan (Jamison Newlander), the angst-ridden Michael soon falls for Star (Jami Gertz) — who turns out to be in thrall to David (Kiefer Sutherland), leader of a local gang of vampires. Sam and his new friends must save Michael and Star from the undead.
One of the David Lynch’s most potent cinematic dreamscapes is a mesmerizing meditation on the mysterious nature of identity dressed as sci-fi neo noir. Patricia Arquette, Robert Blake, Bill Pullman, Marilyn Manson, Jack Nance, David Lynch, 1997
The themes, images, and cultural vernacular of Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz continue to haunt David Lynch’s filmography—from his early short The Alphabet to his recent television series Twin Peaks: The Return. Arguably, no filmmaker has so consistently drawn inspiration—consciously or unconsciously—from a single work. Is Lynch trapped in the Land of Oz? If so, what can we learn about his body of work by taking a closer look at how it intersects and communicates with that legendary fantasy? In turn, what do Lynch’s films have to say about the enduring resonance of one of America’s most beloved classics? Through six distinct perspectives, Alexandre O. Philippe’s Lynch/Oz helps us reexperience and reinterpret The Wizard of Oz by way of David Lynch, delivering new appreciations of both.
A stylish and seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Millennium Mambo is a much-misunderstood marvel. Presented in a stunning 4K restoration, it stars Shu Qi (The Transporter) as an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfriend and towards Jack Kao’s suave, sensitive gangster. Structured as a flashback to the then-present from the then-future of 2011, it’s a transfixing trance-out of a movie, drenched in club lights, ecstatic endorphin-rush exhilaration, and a nagging undercurrent of ennui.
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality. Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, David Lynch.
All The Muppet Movies You Can Handle!
River Phoenix & Keanu Reeves star in this haunting tale from Gus Van Sant, about two young street hustlers: a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, the wayward son of the mayor of Portland.
Earl Keese (John Belushi, Animal House) is a slightly overweight, fairly average guy who is approaching middle age. He leads a reasonably comfortable life with his family in their suburban home. . . until the house next door is bought by a truly odd couple, Vic (Dan Aykroyd, Ghostbusters) and Ramona (Cathy Moriarty, Raging Bull), who quickly proceed to drive Earl crazy.
Arthur Penn’s haunting neo-noir reimagines the hard-boiled detective film for the disillusioned, paranoid 1970s. Gene Hackman, Melanie Griffith, 1975.
In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her former torturer and lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, The Night Porter deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.
Joe, a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac who is discovered badly beaten in an alley by an older bachelor, Seligman, who takes her into his home. As he tends to her wounds, she recounts the erotic story of her adolescence and young-adulthood.
Dae-Su is an obnoxious drunk bailed from the police station yet again by a friend. However, he’s abducted from the street and wakes up in a cell, where he remains for the next 15 years, drugged unconscious when human contact is unavoidable, otherwise with only the television as company. And then, suddenly released, he is invited to track down his jailor with a denouement that is simply stunning.
Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman in this masterpiece of urban poetry. Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Elia Kazan. 1954.
Kaneto Shindo’s chilling retelling of the nightmarish folktale of an impoverished older woman, her daughter-in-law and a bedraggled neighbour fresh from battle that they both desire. 1964.
After Anna (Isabelle Adjani) reveals to her husband, Mark (Sam Neill), that she is having an affair, she leaves him and their son. Mark is devastated, and seeks out Heinrich (Heinz Bennent), the man who cuckolded him, only to receive a beating. After a series of violent confrontations between Mark and Anna, Mark hires a private investigator to follow her. Anna descends into madness, and it’s soon clear that she is hiding a much bigger secret — one that is both inexplicable and shocking.
During transport from the Philippines to South Korea, a group of dangerous criminals unites to stage a coordinated escape attempt. As the jailbreak escalates into a bloody, all-out riot, the fugitives and their allies from the outside exact a brutal terror campaign against the special agents onboard the ship.
Beloved cult horror about a group of teens who inadvertently kill the child of a backwoods witch who unleashes a monstrous demon called Pumpkinhead to exact her revenge. Lance Henriksen, Jeff East, Stan Winston, 1988
All Four REC movies in one sexy set!
Alex Cox’s singular sci-fi comedy stars the always captivating Harry Dean Stanton as a weathered repo man in desolate downtown Los Angeles, and Emilio Estevez as the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing.
Late one night, frustrated comic book artist Leonard Miller witnesses the brutal rape and murder of a young couple at the hands of ruthless small-town thugs. Seeking vigilante justice, Miller decides to become his most famous character, stalking the night intent on spilling the blood of any criminal who stands in his way!
Coppola Double Feature!
Iconic head exploding sci-fi horror where a race of humans with telekinetic abilities must track down a rogue Scanner of unparalleled power waging a bloody war against the normals. David Cronenberg (1981)
The John Ford classic! A Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable. John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Natalie Wood, 1956.
One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Seven Samurai tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits. This three-hour-plus ride from Akira Kurosawa—featuring legendary actors Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura—seamlessly weaves philosophy and entertainment, delicate human emotions and relentless action, into a rich, evocative, and unforgettable tale of courage and hope.
An ingeniously engineered slash of thoroughly modern horror, arguably the most important film of the Canadian Tax Shelter era, which charts a social breakdown by tearing through our most intrinsic taboos. David Cronenberg, 1975.
In the small South American town of Porvenir, four men on the run from the law are offered $10,000 and legal citizenship if they will transport a shipment of dangerously unstable nitroglycerin to an oil well 200 miles away. Led by Jackie Scanlon (Roy Scheider), the men set off on a hazardous journey, during which they must contend with dangerously rocky roads, unstable bridges, and attacks from local guerillas. The four fight for their lives as they struggle to complete their dangerous quest.
In this classic slasher film, a woman with amnesia returns to her sorority house, where a series of grisly murders occur, leading to a terrifying night of survival. Angela O’Neill, Pamela Ross, Carol Frank, 1986
Hang on to your knickers, pump up your platforms and fasten your seat belts, because the Spice Girls – Emma Bunton (Baby Spice), Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice), Melanie Brown (Scary Spice), Melanie Chisholm (Sporty Spice) and Victoria Addams (Posh Spice) – are taking center stage in their feature film debut “Spice World,” a roller coaster ride which will spice up your life and open your eyes very wide!
Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic post apocalyptic landscape. 1979.
Fading actress Elisabeth Sparkle becomes distressed when her chauvinistic boss fires her from her aerobics show. She soon injects herself with a mysterious serum that promises a younger, better version of herself, but things go horribly wrong.
Julia and her husband celebrate her son’s birthday on their boat in the middle of the ocean. When a violent storm nearly capsizes them, the family awakes in a desert land. Julia must save her children in a World where hungry creatures from the abyss hunt for fresh flesh!
‘TerrorVision’ – A family’s new satellite TV system starts receiving signals from another planet, and soon it becomes the passageway to an alien world. ‘The Video Dead’ – A family takes delivery of a new TV set, unaware that it is the gateway by which killer zombies enter the world.
This collection delivers stylish 1990s Japanese crime films packed with gangsters, action, and neon-drenched noir: Crime Hunter: Bullets of Rage / Female Prisoner Scorpion: Death Threat / Teruo Ishii’s The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn (James Woods) is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon “Videodrome,” a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend (Deborah Harry) auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.
Middle-school student Dawn Weiner (Heather Matarazzo) faces degradation at school — where she is teased constantly — and at home. The middle child between nerdy older brother Mark (Matthew Faber) and perky younger sister Missy (Daria Kalinina), Dawn can’t seem to find a place to belong. Although she has a crush on a cute boy (Eric Mabius) whom her brother knows, she can only catch the attention of bully Brandon (Brendan Sexton Jr.), who threatens her to show affection.
In the classic, quintessential Ouija Board horror, a beautiful young woman makes contact with the spirit of a young boy while using a spirit board at her friend’s party. But what she thought was just a game takes a disastrous turn when a monstrous force is unleashed, beginning a campaign of death and demonic possession.
And there we go guys. Movies should be here Thursday/ Friday. Cheers!
