Ten films will compete for Best Film at the 2026 BFI London Film Festival Awards, with the winner to be chosen by the LFF Awards Jury and revealed on Sunday 18 October. The 70th BFI London Film ...
As this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival gets under way, we pick out 10 recommendations from a programme that embraces the thrill of the new with a stack of world premieres from early-career directors.
Ever since the first attempts to realise extinct animals on film – Winsor McCay’s Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) and Willis H. O’Brien’s The Dinosaur and the Missing Link (1915) – the trick has not just ...
To the cine-palaeontologist tracing the evolutionary history of film, Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park appears at first to be a rather obvious hybrid of Jaws and writer Michael Crichton’s earlier ...
Once upon a tele-time, it was all about single plays, soaps and sitcoms, but in the late 1970s ambitious multi-episode drama series such as Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), Roots (1977) and Jesus of ...