Nia DaCosta picks up where Danny Boyle left off for a mixed bag of macabre excess that toys with the horror of Naff Britannia.

Kaouther Ben Hania’s docudrama about the killing of five-year-old Palestinian Hind Rajab is undeniably powerful, but the decision to use the child’s real voice within its genre-inflected narrative ...

Hikari’s film about an unsuccessful actor in Japan who finds work at a rental agency playing stand-in friends and family members feels underdeveloped, but is saved by its thoughtful performances.

Richard Linklater turns cinephile devotion into buoyant biography in Nouvelle Vague, his playful homage to Jean-Luc Godard. Ahead of its UK release, we revisit 10 films that mythologise real-life ...

The Fellowship of the Ring may be a huge success for Peter Jackson, but what would Tolkien have thought of it, asked this feature from our February 2002 issue.

As the 28 Years Later saga mutates once more, director Nia DaCosta brings sharp humour and a wild new cult of villains to the post‑apocalyptic chaos. She discusses stepping into the franchise, ...

Taking inspiration from W.E.B. Du Bois’s unfinished work Encyclopedia Africana, Kahlil Joseph adapts his video installation into a radical essayistic film that unfolds like a 24-hour news cycle.

This 1920s newsreel footage captures the action on the pitch at Old Trafford nearly 100 years ago, even if the heavy camera and expense of film stock made it impossible to show all of the goals.

This limited engagement at BFI IMAX features a tailored programme of four titles selected from a longer list of 13 ’Love Stories’ curated by Fennell especially for the BFI, of ...

In the late 2000s and again during the pandemic era, David Lynch posted daily weather reports from his home in Los Angeles, offering blue skies, golden sunshine, and a glimpse of the light behind his ...

In November 2025, we ran a short session in collaboration with Youth Beyond Borders ( YBB ), a social enterprise dedicated to fostering connections and mutual understanding between young creative ...

The German director, who died aged 83 on 17 December 2025, was best known for his bold contributions to queer cinema. In 1990, Mark Nash explored how von Praunheim’s films “activate and mobilise” ...