Conwoman Jean (Barbara Stanwyck) is on a cruise chip looking for a suitable mark to swindle, and she finds a doozy in Hopsie Pike (Henry Fonda), the naive but single and very eligible heir to an ale fortune. But Jean makes the mistake of falling for the stooge, and when Hopsie finds out who she is and dumps her, she's going to take her revenge - by…

Herzog's epic-feeling but actually pretty spare take on one man's mad quest to travel downriver and find the fabled city of gold El Dorado in 16th century South America. And if you're looking for the one man with the maddest mad quest credentials, there is only Klaus Kinski, at his insane best here both on- and off-screen. Come for the history, sta…

The worst Christmas holiday ever. Teacher John Grant is travelling from his no-horse outback town to Sydney to meet his girlfriend, but drunkenness, gambling and the worst of macho humanity conspire to stop him. A horror movie where Australia is the monster.By whatswrong1363

Tina is a Swedish border guard with a sixth sense for sniffing out baddies, whether they are drug smugglers or paedophiles. She can't explain her powers until she meets Vore, who has similar talents and a way of making Tina feel seen for the first time in her life. Can these two crazy kids make it work? Part romance (with a once-seen, never-forgott…

Not long after the Columbine school massacre, Gus Van Sant and his group of amateur youngsters reimagine a school shooting by playing with time and perspective. What could have been a technical exercise is instead an extremely moving picture of random violence and young lives cut short. A one of a kind.…

The master of perviness and his famed one-location, "one-shot" thriller (not really), with James Stewart unravelling the mystery, and John Dall and Farley Granger being one of the outest gay couples in 1950s Hollywood. Follow that nosy camera around the room and marvel.By whatswrong1363

TV times with James Woods and Debbie Harry in Cronenberg's icky sticky dissection of video nasties, watching the unthinkable and living through your screen. Long live the new flesh.By whatswrong1363

Listen carefully... Coppola's The Conversation is a masterpiece of misdirection, with Gene Hackman's Harry Caul the essence of paranoid loneliness. Sometimes you really can't believe your ears.By whatswrong1363

How do you make a feminist film under a repressive theocracy like Iran? It's not a joke to say "very carefully", and Marzieh Meshkini has done just that. Three apparently separate stories of women and girls just trying to live their lives have more in common than we think. It sounds po-faced but it's not - these stories are funny and poignant, with…

Philip Marlowe, hardboiled detective, finds himself in laid-back 1970s California, looking for lost cat, his lost client and his lost friend. There is a plot but that's not the point in Robert Altman's vision of Raymond Chandler, brought to life by a wonderful performance from Elliot Gould.By whatswrong1363

Marx out of 10? 10 all the way for this Marx Brothers masterpiece. It's got mangled language, pratfalls and puns a-plenty and still has time to say that war is pointless and borders are imaginary. And it's 90 years old. HONK HONK.By whatswrong1363

The best film EVER about car sex, serial killing, steroid abuse, oil lactation, self-injury and fireman discos? Well it's certainly in the top ten. Titane is a weirdfest from start to finish, grounded by two amazing performances. French body horror at its best. Formidable.By whatswrong1363

A man who doesn't want to run is being pursued by a man who doesn't want to chase him. Sam Peckinpah kills the Hollywood Western stone-dead in this dreamy meditation - when the West and the world are being transformed, what happens to men who can't change?By whatswrong1363

Kate Winslet gets in with a cult, Harvey Keitel tries to get her out of it through the power of his personality and a fetching red frock. Jane Campion wrangles the not-inconsiderable sexual heat between them. Smokin'.By whatswrong1363

Olivia de Havilland is trapped in the slowest elevator in the world - her cries for help are heard by a vicious young hoodlum in the shape of a very scary James Caan, in this 1960s apocalyptic home invasion. Love doesn't lift them up where they belong.By whatswrong1363

Ghost Dog is a spiritual hit man who's sworn to protect the Mafia goon who saved his life. His best friends are an ice-cream man who speaks no English, a bookish little girl and a flock of pigeons. Oh, and the Mafia like hip hop. Watch this and swoon.By whatswrong1363

Bill's not like the rest of his family -he's not blonde, he doesn't want to massage his sister and he feels there's some secret he's not being told. But maybe a nice dinner together will bring them closer. Come hungry!By whatswrong1363

Colonial misadventure as Michael Caine and Sean Connery give career-best performances in their search to become kings in Victorian-era Afghanistan. The very definition of be careful what you wish for.By whatswrong1363

Love and hate, light and dark, good and evil, innocence and guilt, all wrapped up in one of the most luminously beautiful films ever made. Actor Charles Laughton only got one chance to direct a film, and he didn't waste it. We've got LOVE tattooed on both knuckles for this one.By whatswrong1363

Girls who are boys, who like boys to be girls - Gilda is film noir at its most deviant. Ignore the "plot" (there isn't much of one), and just enjoy the sexual power games of Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford and the other guy.By whatswrong1363

Fear and loathing in NYC. Two visceral and gritty films from the king of Catholic guilt, Abel Ferrara, including a low-budget feminist thrill ride, and Harvey Keitel's best performance. They'll blow you away.By whatswrong1363

Do you like Huey Lewis and the News? Then you'll love our take on American Psycho. We're really coming into our own, commercially and artistically.By whatswrong1363

Tender love story, queer BDSM and lectures on butterflies - The Duke of Burgundy has something for all the family.By whatswrong1363

Our individual picks of the best weird films since 2013. Let's just say there are some disagreements.By whatswrong1363

Cross-class power struggles and drug-fuelled paranoia in 60s Chelsea, with Dirk Bogarde and James Fox bringing the gay subtext front and centre in Joseph Losey's unsettling masterpiece.By whatswrong1363

Girls just wanna have.... everything. We compare and contrast the get pissed-destroy punk attitude of 60s Czech women in Daisies, with the time-bending female detectives in Celine and Julie. Who run the world?By whatswrong1363

Film nor couple (he likes guns, she's just crazy) go on honeymoon. Crime spree ensues. A huge influence on the French New Wave and an incredible film in its own right.By whatswrong1363

David Lynch's weird fest, a poison pen letter to Hollywood and an extraordinary Naomi Watts. Hear us rave.By whatswrong1363

Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson are in love - sure, she's a computer operating system but nobody's perfect. A tender and erotic love story, a meditation on loneliness, and ScarJo's amazing voice. You can ask ChatGPT to write the perfect modern romance, but Spike Jonze has beaten you to it.By whatswrong1363

How do you like your Eastwood - the strong silent type or the sneaky coward? Get you a Clint that does both in this deep-dive into 70s cinematic masculinity and the crisis thereof.By whatswrong1363

What's wrong with setting up a fake audition to find yourself a new wife? Nothing if you can keep your feet on the ground. Time bending, mind bending Japanese horror from Takashi Miike.By whatswrong1363

Gotta dance, gotta dance....we're backstage at the ballet but fame costs and right here's where they start paying. Body horror hallucination meets compulsion and control in this Aranofsky/ Powell and Pressburger pas de deux.By whatswrong1363

Passionate story of star-crossed lovers? Check. Searing indictment of suburban middle-class America? Check. Rock Hudson's shirts? Check. Mamma jamma melodrama giving birth to both David Lynch and soap opera. It's a doozie.By whatswrong1363

Dreamy dark shadows hide what's really going on behind the mask of respectability worn by esteemed surgeon Dr Genissier. Beautiful visuals and ethereal performances make this 1960 French horror unforgettable. No, Billy Idol doesn't sing the theme tune.By whatswrong1363

It's raining, men. Investigative journalist goes undercover in mental hospital to solve murder in this classic hard-boiled masterpiece. With NYMPHOS and stormy weather ahead.By whatswrong1363

C'mon c'mon let's stick together. It's share and Cher alike as Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear play conjoined twins in this Farrelly Brothers comedy. Can Walt make it in Hollywood as a serious actor and will his brother ever get off his back?By whatswrong1363

Lee Marvin at his coolest, in search of a bag of money and the man who left him for dead, but his search brings more questions than answers. Is there a Point? Why is he so Blank? There's more to this existentialist hitman than meets the eye in the uber-stylish1967 cult film. With added Angie Dickinson, which is never a wrong move.…

Cowboys in aprons and heroes in ballgowns - these are a few of our favourite things. Gender-bending, blacklist-dodging Nicolas Ray kind-of-Western.By whatswrong1363

The woodwork squeaks and out come the "Freaks". Is Tod Browning's 1932 career-killing classic the most controversial film ever made?By whatswrong1363

True life horror and two amazing debuts set in stuffy and stifling 1950s New Zealand. With added Plasticine Orson Welles.By whatswrong1363

Scottish pagan cult crazies vs Scandinavian pagan cult crazies. But which is better? There's only one way to find out.By whatswrong1363

Get out of here you jiving scum! Straight to the fridge with Brit 60s teensploitation. Daddio.By whatswrong1363

Mummy, I'm seeing things. And take your tongue out of my mouth. Cold War brainwashing hijinks with Sinatra and Co.By whatswrong1363

Scarlett leads randy Scots to inky abyss. Fun does not ensue.By whatswrong1363

Sound of the 60s suburbs - splash, glug, neigh, wail, sob. Poor naked Burt Lancaster.By whatswrong1363

Sandy, can't you see, I'm in misery? A claustrophobic slice of allegorical weirdness from the Japanese New Wave.By whatswrong1363

1945 film noir Detour is a low budget thrill ride on the road to death and despair.By whatswrong1363