As London’s Open House Festival offers a glimpse inside the capital’s most impressive buildings, we take a look at the modern house on film.
The second instalment of Kevin Costner’s four-part self-funded western has arrived with more beautiful vistas and traditional cowboy movie pleasures, but its convoluted plot sags when it should soar.
A stinging satire on the British film industry, a Netflix thriller that delivers the goods, and a glowing tale of ageing romance. What are you watching this weekend?
Happyend unfolds in a dystopian near-future where a title card informs us that systems are crumbling. It’s here, beneath a subtly Blade Runner-ish skyline and amidst intermittent earthquakes, that a ...
Despite its impressive cast, this portrait of surrealist artist and wartime photographer Lee Miller can at times feel a little lifeless.
A 70-year-old widow in Tehran shakes up her predictable existence when she pursues a relationship with a lonely taxi driver in Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha‘s defiant tale of late-in-life ...
New releases screening at BFI IMAX in late October and November will include Joker: Folie à Deux (Todd Phillips, 2024) and Gladiator II (Ridley Scott, 2024), plus The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) ...
Hot on the heels of the 68th BFI London Film Festival programme launch announcement, the festival is delighted to announce additional films which will feature in this year’s programme.
Critics scolded Ken Russell for the excesses of his Tchaikovsky biopic The Music Lovers, but his unfettered celebration of the music now looks like the flamboyant model for recent composer movies.
Clapham and Streatham provide the setting for David Lean’s exquisite family drama This Happy Breed – one of Martin Scorsese’s hidden gems of British cinema. Would today’s south Londoners recognise ...
Director Clio Barnard takes us behind the scenes of the second series of acclaimed Nottingham-based crime drama Sherwood.
Brisk genre movies made on the cheap, British ’quota quickies’ were a proving ground for talents including Michael Powell and David Lean. As a set of early Powell films arrives on Blu-ray, we went ...