Bringing claustrophobic dread and gory practical effects to an English village, The Quatermass Xperiment is the movie that put Hammer Films on the map and has proved an enduring inspiration to the ...

On the cover: 1975, the year that changed cinema forever. From Jaws to Jeanne Dielman Inside: Cannes 2025 bulletin, Athina Rachel Tsangari on Harvest, David Cronenberg interviewed by Erika Balsom and ...

Every story is a gamble in these 10 films capturing the glitz and grit of Sin City – celebrating 30 years since Paul Verhoeven’s notorious backstage satire Showgirls.

As Chicken Run turns 25, we place Aardman’s classic within a history of British animated feature films. They don’t come along very often, but when they do they can be very special.

Posy Sterling’s layered performance as a single mum battling for her children’s custody after being released from prison carries Daisy-May Hudson’s film through frustrated sobs and cathartic laughs.

Shot through with beauty and joy, Lollipop is a story of motherhood in a broken system told in the urgent tradition of Ken Loach and Clio Barnard. Director Daisy-May Hudson tells us how the film is ...

With its tedious musical numbers and baffling interpretations of a timeless text, this feels like a condescending attempt to get young people interested in Shakespeare.

The second edition of the BFI’s Film on Film Festival takes place at BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX, and includes a rare showing of an original print of Star Wars, among other treasures.

Known for his idiosyncratic tales of yakuza and swordsmen, the great Takeshi Kitano has now made a period epic exploring queer desire among samurai in 1500s Japan. Following Kubi’s UK premiere, we ...

Excavating hidden histories of British Blackness, Lanre Bakare’s book We Were There casts an expansive and overdue spotlight on Black life in the UK and its depictions in screen cultures outside the ...

Before African cinema had institutions, support systems or even meaningful access to production tools, the Beninese Senegalese filmmaker and historian Paulin Soumanou Vieyra was laying its foundations ...

Made at the height of the swinging 60s, this chilling psychological thriller transforms ordinary cityscapes into a haunting reflection of its main character’s unravelling mind. We went in search of ...