Tom Holland’s Peter Parker returns amid an existential crisis in a brand-extension blockbuster that lacks the springy spontaneity of Spider-Man: Homecoming.

A true-life WWII POW story gets all-star Hollywood treatment, topped by Steve McQueen’s iconic (and fictional) motorbike ride towards freedom. “A hit with the critics and at the box office, The Great ...

The British Film Institute (BFI) was founded in 1933 and constituted under Royal Charter on 18 July 1983 (amended April 2000). One of our key objectives is to establish, care for and develop ...

Fifty years after the release of Bugsy Malone, we share the illustrations with which director Alan Parker first imagined the idea of a gangster musical in which all of the parts would be played by ...

Between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the weird and wonderful film production line in communist East Germany included sci-fi, westerns, film noir and some uniquely ...

A huge, bloodshot eyeball fills the screen and screams are heard as the camera pulls back to reveal a hideous carnival mask with one eye and a twisted mouth. The streets are packed with frenzied ...

British filmmakers of the 1960s began to see a different capital to their predecessors. Instead of the melancholy gloom of the immediate postwar period, vibrancy and colour took precedence. A new ...

“Eeurgh, that was horrible!” says a schoolgirl during a class on cinematic presentations of World War II, complaining about Come and See (1985), Elem Klimov’s notoriously confronting story of ...

Returning to the serial format of earlier work like Night on Earth (1991), Jim Jarmusch’s prize-winning latest film looks at adult sibling relationships in the long shadow of a parent. It’s typically ...

“The pre-release posters for The Odyssey did not feature the names and faces of the many stars, or a tagline about the greatest story ever told, with exclamation marks – it just showed Christopher ...

During the opening sequence of Rubika Shah’s exhilarating new documentary White Riot, which charts the rise of the Rock Against Racism movement, a sequence of familiar, grainy footage plays. Groups of ...

It is usually described in superlatives, epic or monumental, mostly because of its running time of 14.5 hours, and that is probably why it remains one of Watkins’ least seen works. Jacob Hovind has ...