As Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey arrives in cinemas, we revisit 10 films that journeyed into Greek mythology before it, finding enduring inspiration in an ancient world of gods, monsters and epic ...

A world premiere of the restoration including a Q&A with band members will take place at BFI Southbank, before the film returns to cinemas nationwide on 2 October.

The list of 13 ‘Love Stories’ recommended to the BFI by Emerald Fennell, director of Promising Young Woman, Saltburn, and now her explosive “Wuthering Heights”, is a carefully considered programme ...

The director of Ex Machina and Annihilation, Alex Garland is back with a folk horror film for the #MeToo era. We spoke to him about Green Man imagery, body-horror effects and the influence of anime.

In her latest documentary, We, Alice Diop wanders the route of the RER B, following the screeching halts and blinking fluorescence of this creaky, artificially-lit commuter train. While Diop’s camera ...

British cinema wouldn’t be the same without Hammer Films. Though the company was making films well before it became associated with horror cinema, Hammer redefined the genre for British audiences and ...

Directors Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz attempt to peer under the MAGA cap into American nostalgia for white supremacy, but their hollow effort fixates on the ‘how’ rather than the ‘why’.

Forty years ago, a landmark film by Lebanese director Heiny Srour centred the less visible stories and histories of women in Lebanon and Palestine through an audacious feminist rewriting. Now ...

Silent Sherlock Holmes series of the 1920s gets major restoration project The on-screen Sherlock Holmes who had the approval of Arthur Conan Doyle himself, Eille Norwood starred in a series of 1920s ...

A mammoth adventure epic that shot for 91 days across six months in six countries and cost a reported $250 million to make, The Odyssey is a cinematic beast worthy of its own mythology. Adapting and ...

In August 1986, Hong Kong was running out of Ray Bans. Director John Woo and producer Tsui Hark had just unveiled their brooding action epic A Better Tomorrow, a tale of treachery and brotherhood ...

In September 1962, the Sunday Express reported on the presence of a fading Hollywood star in London. “Once he could not have stepped into a London street without being mobbed,” the article said. “Now ...