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Performance — a thrillingly elusive head trip
Performance — a thrillingly elusive head trip
A violent London gangster undergoes a transformation of identity while hiding from his former colleagues in the home of a jaded rock star.
Alexander Boucher
Mar 1
I Walked with a Zombie & The Seventh Victim — moody voodoo masterpiece & hopeless satanic sleuthing
I Walked with a Zombie & The Seventh Victim — moody voodoo masterpiece & hopeless satanic sleuthing
Val Lewton, a master of horror, created two chilling films that explore the unseen and the unknown…
Remy Dean
Oct 12, 2024
Night of the Living Dead — zombie masterpiece with a beating heart
Night of the Living Dead — zombie masterpiece with a beating heart
A group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse find themselves fending off a horde of flesh-eating zombies.
Jonathan 'Jono' Simpson
Oct 5, 2024
Happiness (1998) — shocking, dark, but also funny and human
Happiness (1998) — shocking, dark, but also funny and human
The paths of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own different ways…
Barnaby Page
Sep 30, 2024
Risky Business — coming-of-age comedy is one of Tom Cruise’s finest hours
Risky Business — coming-of-age comedy is one of Tom Cruise’s finest hours
A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand.
Alexander Boucher
Jul 26, 2024
Slacker — Linklater finds profundity in the everyday
Slacker — Linklater finds profundity in the everyday
A day in the life of Austin, Texas as the camera provides a look at the overeducated, the social misfits, the outcasts, and the oddballs.
Alexander Boucher
Jun 14, 2024
Dazed and Confused — captures the essence of teen angst in the 1970s
Dazed and Confused — captures the essence of teen angst in the 1970s
The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976.
Jonathan 'Jono' Simpson
May 3, 2024
Dreams — Kurosawa’s poetic rumination on life and nature
Dreams — Kurosawa’s poetic rumination on life and nature
A collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawa’s recurring dreams.
Alexander Boucher
Apr 18, 2024
The Roaring Twenties — lost in a time of flappers and gangsters
The Roaring Twenties — lost in a time of flappers and gangsters
Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.
Remy Dean
Mar 8, 2024
Mudbound — unveils the wounds of racism with unflinching honesty and heart
Mudbound — unveils the wounds of racism with unflinching honesty and heart
Two men return home from WWII to work on a farm in Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.
Jonathan 'Jono' Simpson
Feb 22, 2024
Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers (1925–1932) — timeless classics of the macabre
Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers (1925–1932) — timeless classics of the macabre
Three twisted pre-Hays Code shockers from filmmaker Tod Browning, early Hollywood’s edgiest auteur.
Remy Dean
Oct 18, 2023
After Hours — Scorsese’s underseen masterpiece
After Hours — Scorsese’s underseen masterpiece
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Jonathan 'Jono' Simpson
Oct 7, 2023
The Kid (1921) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
The Kid (1921) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
The Tramp adopts an abandoned baby…
Barnaby Page
Aug 19, 2023
Smooth Talk (1985) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
Smooth Talk (1985) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
A teenage girl is wooed by a young man who may not be what he claims…
Barnaby Page
Jun 25, 2023
Repulsion (1965) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
Repulsion (1965) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
A beautiful manicurist suffering from androphobia experiences frightful hallucinations after her sister and roommate takes a holiday to…
Barnaby Page
May 19, 2023
Imitation of Life (1934) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
Imitation of Life (1934) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
A white widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter, and the two women start a successful business…
Alexander Boucher
Feb 28, 2023
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
An account of Baron Munchausen’s supposed travels and fantastical experiences across late-18th-century Europe with his band of misfits.
Jonathan 'Jono' Simpson
Jan 31, 2023
The Breakfast Club (1985) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
The Breakfast Club (1985) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover they have a lot more in common than they thought.
Jonathan 'Jono' Simpson
Jan 23, 2023
The Great Dictator (1940) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
The Great Dictator (1940) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel’s regime.
Barnaby Page
Nov 30, 2022
Hearts and Minds (1974) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
Hearts and Minds (1974) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
Peter Davis’s Academy Award-winning 1973 documentary is a passionate exposé of the war in Vietnam and its effects on ordinary people on…
Barnaby Page
Nov 25, 2022
Eve’s Bayou (1997) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
Eve’s Bayou (1997) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
A little girl witnesses something that haunts her about the powerful patriarch of an affluent family…
Frame Rated Staff
Nov 10, 2022
Take Out (2004) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
Take Out (2004) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
An illegal Chinese immigrant falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt, so is given until the end of the day to come up with…
Jonathan 'Jono' Simpson
Oct 19, 2022
The Piano (1993) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
The Piano (1993) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
In the mid-19th century, a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage…
Alexander Boucher
Sep 5, 2022
The Big Chill (1983) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
The Big Chill (1983) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
A group of former college friends gather for a weekend reunion after the funeral of another of their college friends.
Tom Trott
Aug 29, 2022
The Breaking Point (1950) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
The Breaking Point (1950) • Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
When his boating business starts to fail, a family man turns to crime.
Barnaby Page
Aug 23, 2022
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