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 ...

Helen Walsh’s On the Sea stars Barry Ward as a married mussel farmer in rural North Wales whose affair with a younger deckhand threatens his family and community ties.

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

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 ...

David Lean’s classic 1945 film of Noël Coward’s stage play sticks quite closely to the original. But then, since Coward himself was producing, Lean didn’t really have much choice. (By all accounts, he ...

Director Wim Wenders often made films about journeying. Famed for his distinctly more pessimistic, European take on the American road movie form, Wenders regularly looked at journeys heading nowhere ...

Not only was Ingmar Bergman one of the greatest artists in the history of cinema, he was also one of the most prolific. Chalking up over 60 films as director, he worked quickly with regular ...

Screenwriter Jesse Armstrong described Yorgos Lanthimos best. In the current cinematic landscape, the Greek filmmaker holds the position of “surpriser, unsettler in chief”. Despite the clinical, ...

Edgar Wright’s faithful adaptation of Stephen King’s 1982 novel about a deadly cross-country chase TV gameshow is crammed with skilful action sequences, winking gags and a surprisingly topical strand ...

Like the porn industry it puts under the microscope, Adult Material knows that where there’s muck, there’s brass. So this bold, ambitiously over-stuffed miniseries opens on porn-star heroine Jolene ...

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