In 480 BC, Athenian General Themistocles leads the Greek Army in a war against the invasion of King Xerxes I, naval commander Artemisia and their Persian forces. Themistocles allies with the Spartans but they are still outnumbered by Xerxes' men. Who will be victorious? Well, you could get out a history book, but if you’d prefer the comically violent film version of events courtesy of Frank Miller’s graphic novel, then this is the puppy for you.
find out more...Cult director, Abel Ferrara invites us to witness the day before everything will cease to be. At 4:44am, the last vestiges of the world’s ozone layer will evaporate and within seconds the word will end. There is no means of escape and there will be no survivors we view the countdown to the end of life on earth through the eyes of actor, Cisco and his artist girlfriend, Skye whose focus in their final hours is love, lust find out more...
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests here longing for the cure. —20th Century Fox
Sophia Howard rents a house in the countryside of Wales and hires the occultist Joseph Solomon to contact her son that was kidnapped and murdered by teenagers practicing black magic. Along the days, Sophia follows the guidance of Solomon in rituals to purify her soul. However Sophia has a hidden agenda that jeopardizes their lives.
find out more...The exploration of the enormity of life when a recently deceased ghost returns to his house to try and reconnect with his wife. Made on a shoe string and in secret, it is a hypnotic observation of life and time after we die and it achieves to visually convey the psychological weight of certain death and that life will continue once we're gone. The people sitting next to me left the cinema about 20 minutes in because it is indeed a very slow moving film and I can understand why they left but t find out more...
Set in Manhattan in 1916, we follow thief Peter Lake who meets Beverly Penn, a young woman he is about to rob. Instead, he begins to talk to her and they soon fall in love but he later discovers that she is terminally ill. Meanwhile, Peter is being pursued by his old boss, ruthless gangster Pearly Soames, to whom he owes a debt, but he is saved by a white horse and finds himself transported into the future. Suffering from amnesia, Peter encounters Virginia who helps him to recall his past and find out more...