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Of course, they’re all worth revisiting or discovering with younger family members. As are Casablanca (1942) and The Big Sleep (1946), which are back on the Beeb on Boxing Day. But, this year, they ...

Born in Sunderland 100 years ago, Norden is little known today, but she exuded glamour and confidence in a string of ‘bad girl’ and femme fatale roles in post-war British cinema.

In key Almodóvar films The Flower of My Secret and All About My Mother, Paredes’ distinctive chiselled features, striking eyes and husky voice were matched by elegance and defiance.

RaMell Ross‘ lyrical adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel adopts the point of view of two teens in a brutal 1960s reform school, asking the audience not to simply observe their reality, but feel it.

Thirty years on from The Wrong Trousers, the ultimate claymation villain Feathers McGraw is back, and this time he has an army of evil gnome robots.

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.

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.

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 ...

From the mid-1960s onwards, Le Grice began to develop radical new ways of thinking about film. There was a sense of things being revealed, the guts of cinema and art being reformulated.

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.