Comedy is no laughing matter in many films about comedians, as the entertainers who make audiences laugh are often far from happy themselves. As Bradley Cooper’s stand-up drama Is This Thing On?

The filmmaker and artist reflects on arriving in 90s London, their politicised coming‑of‑age, and the deeply personal new film premiering at this year’s London Short Film Festival – a layered ...

Ashley Walters’ BFI-backed directorial debut is among the raft of UK world premieres announced for this year’s Berlin International Film Festival.

Philippa Lowthorne's shrewd adaptation of Helen Macdonald's memoir lacks some nuance, but is a worthy entry into the canon of thorny animal therapy films.

Introducing Jack Warner as hero copper PC Dixon, The Blue Lamp was the biggest British film of 1950. Did it help that this original poster moves the focus away from law and order to the criminal ...

Learn more about preparations for a season of big screen classics and get a closer look at a newly donated collection of nitrate film.

After a brutal experience on Dune in 1984, which he felt had been butchered by the studio, David Lynch vowed to maintain tighter control of his future projects. Here his business partners, from ...

One hundred years after the birth of television in Britain, Magic Rays of Light author John Wyver looks back at the rapid development of the new medium during the 1930s – a lost era that saw a huge ...

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