Horror expert Anton Bitel has spent long days and nights watching films from this year’s packed FrightFest programme. These are his eight favourite discoveries.

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.

A struggling director follows the deluded Lady Isabella (Sian Clifford) around her country estate for a documentary in Samuel Abrahams’s eccentric comedy about the parasitic relationship between ...

The LFF Industry Forum runs from 8 to 15 October at Picturehouse Central, with accreditation for industry and press delegates now open.

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 ...

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 ...

Love represents the possibility of transcending – or at least surviving – the grinding reality of life under capitalism in Fallen Leaves, Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s fourth addition to his ...

Highlights include the previously announced, gloriously nutty Madness film from 1981, Pier Paolo Pasolini's most notorious work, a classic animation from John Halas and Joy Batchelor, and a new love ...

Five years on from his death, BFI Southbank has started 2015 with a timely reassessment of Eric Rohmer. The least flamboyant member of the French New Wave, he achieved such a rare consistency of theme ...

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 ...

Film, like magic, combines art and science. Film is a highly technical medium, but perfect for delivering illusion. The pioneer filmmakers of the 1890s were quick to exploit stop-motion and the ...