Deconstructing the machinery of cinema.
In AD 645, the Goguryeo fortress at Ansi came under siege by the Tang forces of Emperor Taizong. For 88 days the Goguryeo forces defend their homes against the invading Tang, under the leadership of their commander Yang Manchun. Almost 1,400 years later the historical events - albeit in a highly revised state - are ...
In Brazil's near-future, the tiny village of Bacurau finds itself closed off from the outside world. It no longer appears on any online maps, mobile phones cannot get any signal, and it is running out of food and water. It then falls under attack from a strike team of foreign white supremacists, led by a ...
In the aftermath of the events of Avengers: Endgame, a grieving Peter Parker (Tom Holland) must cope with the death of his mentor as well as a gap of five years between dying along with half of the Earth's population and being spontaneously brought back to life. Desperate to go on vacation in Europe and ...
Two men, their hands tied behind their backs, flee across a beach at dawn. MacConnachie (Robert Shaw), the older of the two men heads inland with murderous intent. Ansell (Malcolm McDowell), nervous and reluctant, trails behind him. In the skies, an anonymous helicopter searches for them. Largely forgotten it seems, Joseph Losey's on-the-run thriller Figures in ...
Five years after he is betrayed during a jewel heist, professional thief Dan Cheung (Andy Lau) is released from prison and immediately sets about returning to his criminal career. He targets a prize he knows that whoever betrayed him at the last robbery will be unable to resist, and plans a trap to finally get ...
Professional assassin John Wick (Keanu Reeves) has murdered a member of the 'high table' - the aristocratic powerbrokers who rule a secret world of killers. Now he is alone, targeted by all thanks to a $14 million dollar price on his head, and unable to call on any of his former allies. The 2017 sequel John ...
Gail Hartman (Meryl Streep) is a retired white water rafter who returns to Idaho's Salmon River to show her husband Tom (David Strathairn) and son Roarke (Joseph Mazzello) an important part of her youth - and, hopefully, to heal her increasingly fractured marriage. Gail's hopes are shattered when a pair of fellow rafters (Kevin Bacon ...
