Edition 13 — Week of August 8, 2026 (Archived)
A year after witnessing a murder, residents of Tower Block 31 find themselves being picked off by a sniper, pitting those lucky enough to be alive into a battle for survival.
Danny, dying of AIDS, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his sister.
An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favourite musicians to perform at his home.
Staggeringly beautiful, bafflingly complex, this is proper event cinema.
— Wendy Ide, The Times (UK)
Emer Reynolds’s dazzling film traces the history of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Like the NASA team that produced these spacecraft, it inspires awe.
— Andy Webster, The New York Times
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
2014
Cassavetes was a masterful anti-Hollywood director who probed human failings until he reached right under the skin.
— Derek Malcolm, London Evening Standard
A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave the country together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be short-lived.
Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.
2025
It's a great movie and it's a chance in a million to see a passionate Grace Kelly... She had so much class it would be easy to overlook that underlying heat which Hitchcock let play in this film.
— Terry Hiller, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Perhaps the most elegant and satisfying of Alfred Hitchcock’s thrillers...
— Wendy Ide, The Times (UK)
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of modern-day labour exploitation.
An enchanted village. A wonderful friendship. Star-crossed lovers. And the magic of the movies.
1995
"But unfortunately, even wearing my most generous critical goggles, I cannot resuscitate the reputation of this film. It is as bad as people feared, or maybe, hoped it would be."
"She is stunning in this film; such breathtaking maturity for a very young performer."
"It's certainly not the sublime experience that West Side Story or The Fabelmans were. But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't utterly hooked from frame one and having a great time."
"there are many ugly qualities in Mona I was displeased to recognize in myself, which makes her journey all the more affecting. this movie is the perfect distillation of "wherever you go, there you are"...so…"
"I fear this is my new favourite movie...."
"If nothing else, Empire is the movie that evokes an epic sense of mythos that none of the future Star Wars films, for all their strengths, have ever really come close to again."
"We want to disconnect from the loop, to escape, to find freedom, the sky, and natural light. But we are somehow drawn deeper into a labyrinth of fragmented memories."