Bringing claustrophobic dread and gory practical effects to an English village, The Quatermass Xperiment is the movie that put Hammer Films on the map and has proved an enduring inspiration to the ...

On the cover: 1975, the year that changed cinema forever. From Jaws to Jeanne Dielman Inside: Cannes 2025 bulletin, Athina Rachel Tsangari on Harvest, David Cronenberg interviewed by Erika Balsom and ...

With its tedious musical numbers and baffling interpretations of a timeless text, this feels like a condescending attempt to get young people interested in Shakespeare.

As Chicken Run turns 25, we place Aardman’s classic within a history of British animated feature films. They don’t come along very often, but when they do they can be very special.

Shot through with beauty and joy, Lollipop is a story of motherhood in a broken system told in the urgent tradition of Ken Loach and Clio Barnard. Director Daisy-May Hudson tells us how the film is ...

Posy Sterling’s layered performance as a single mum battling for her children’s custody after being released from prison carries Daisy-May Hudson’s film through frustrated sobs and cathartic laughs.

The second edition of the BFI’s Film on Film Festival takes place at BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX, and includes a rare showing of an original print of Star Wars, among other treasures.

Every story is a gamble in these 10 films capturing the glitz and grit of Sin City – celebrating 30 years since Paul Verhoeven’s notorious backstage satire Showgirls.

Known for his idiosyncratic tales of yakuza and swordsmen, the great Takeshi Kitano has now made a period epic exploring queer desire among samurai in 1500s Japan. Following Kubi’s UK premiere, we ...

Ole Gerster’s acclaimed Canary Islands-set thriller, starring Sam Riley as a tennis coach, will be in cinemas from 12 September and on BFI Player from 27 October.

Made at the height of the swinging 60s, this chilling psychological thriller transforms ordinary cityscapes into a haunting reflection of its main character’s unravelling mind. We went in search of ...

A recent BFI season ‘Black Rodeo’ paid homage to the counterculture phenomenon of the African American ‘western’ and its bold repudiation of mainstream Hollywood tropes. At the European premiere of ...