Director Michael Gracey’s portrayal of a young Robbie Williams’ rise to pop stardom resembles countless other music biopics, only here, the star is presented matter-of-factly as a chimpanzee. A ...

Highlights from more than 125 years of homegrown Christmas movies, from Cash on Demand to Brazil.

Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh are a couple whose relationship we experience across three timelines in the new film from the director of Brooklyn, John Crowley. He explains how Nic Roeg movies ...

It‘s time to eat, drink and be merry, but not before spending stressful hours sweating over a hot stove. Throughout their history video games have turned the panic of food prep into something fun.

In our 1959 summer and autumn issue, Jonas Mekas, the then editor of the American magazine Film Culture, reports from the inside, as it were, on new trends in the non-Hollywood American cinema.

Winner of the Werner Herzog Film Prize, this graceful drama from Harley Chamandy possesses a vivid sense of place and strong lead performance from Vincent Leclerc as a grieving music producer.

2024 marks the deserved ascendency of Sharon D. Clarke, who has previously commanded attention for supporting roles in Doctor Who and Mr Loverman (see below) and is a recognised star in theatreland.

Intrigue in the Alps, an airport thriller set on Christmas Eve, and Daniel Craig in Mexico City. What are you watching this weekend?

From The Handmaiden to Frances Ha, a new collection on BFI Player – curated in partnership with Sofas & Stuff – draws together the ’uncommon threads’ that make festive season special.

As actor, director and stunt co-ordinator, Sammo Hung is one of the legendary figures of Hong Kong action cinema. Here the 72-year-old reflects on the era of practical, physical action and his long ...

A quantum physicist turns sleuth when a series of gruesome murders occur at an academic alpine summit in Timm Kröger’s heavily stylised sci-fi noir.

Plentie, a programmer for the BFI London Film Festival and the BFI Flare: LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, reflects on work by Black women filmmakers at this year’s LFF.