On the Basis of Sex

On the Basis of Sex | USA 2018 | Biography, Drama | Mimi Leder | oA

Mimi Leder‘s biopic is about Ruth Bader Ginsberg‘s beginnings – her studies, her job as a professor, and the precedent case in which she enforced gender equality before the law for the first time.

Detroit

USA 2017 | Thriller, Historical Film, Drama | Kathryn Bigelow | 12 | Interview

Detroit, 1967. Decades of discrimination turn into angry street riots. When shots from the Algiers Hotel are reported, the police step in and bullies a group of predominantly African-American hotel guests. Several people are shot.

Free Fire

Frankreich/Großbritannien 2016 | Action, Comedy | Ben Wheatley | 16

Gangsters meet for an arms deal, a petty matter leads to a fight, one person fires followed by everyone firing. Minimalist 70s retro gangster film in the vein of Johnny To’s THE MISSION and Tarantino’s RESERVOIR DOGS.

Midsommar

USA 2019 | Mystery, Horror | Ari Aster | 16

A group of college students travel to Northern Sweden in order to study a pagan community. Ari Aster boils down high-culture cult motifs into ornaments, fun, and shock effects.

Midsommar – Director's Cut

USA 2019 | Horror, Mystery | Ari Aster | 16

A Royal Night Out

A Royal Night Out | Großbritannien 2015 | Drama, Love Stories | Julian Jarrold | 6

It is a historical fact that the young princesses Elisabeth and Margaret didn’t spent V-Day at Buckingham Palace. The romance that A ROYAL NIGHT depicts on that night is pure rumbustious invention.

Sing Street

Irland 2016 | Comedy, Music Films | John Carney

Ireland in the mid-Eighties. 14-year-old Conor decides to form a band as a way of escaping the Irish depression but mostly to impress cool Raphina.