It feels easy and perhaps reductive to draw a line between the countryside fantasies of Hayao Miyazaki and Ghost Cat Anzu. Many examples of modern animation carry Ghibli in their DNA, but this film ...

With the help of a strong ensemble cast, Malcolm Washington pushes the cinematic potential of Wilson’s 1930s Pittsburgh play.

Let’s get Patrick Swayze in there too – he can play the gang leader, a mystic kind of dude. And let’s have Kathryn Bigelow directing it, catching a mighty wave in her ascendancy to the front ranks of ...

Animation can be cuddly and cosy, but it can also cause nightmares and confront some of life’s darkest aspects. As Watership Down comes to Blu-ray and 4K UHD, we round up other cartoons that are set ...

To celebrate the National Lottery’s 30th birthday, we look back on three decades of supporting and funding UK film.

Filmed by media activists from both Israel and Palestine, this eloquent documentary captures the reality of a land struggle between resident Palestinians and the occupying Israeli forces seeking their ...

It was the era of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren, Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme. But times were changing. Politics were changing. And so did American action movies.

It has the adorable retro-styling of the previous films, but not nearly enough hilarity ensues on Paddington’s grand South American adventure.

In 2022, the BFI National Archive announced a partnership with Netflix for a selection of their shows to be preserved as part of the national collection. Two years on, we look at highlights from the ...

Before the world knew what had hit it, our reporter Philip Strick visited the set of Ridley Scott’s answer to Star Wars, to discuss terror, smoke and the Alien Problem. From our Winter 1978/79 issue.

Yeo Siew Hua asks intelligent questions about the effect of surveillance on the psyche in a brilliantly-cast mystery about a child’s disappearance.

Highlights include a new restoration of Guillermo del Toro’s debut feature Cronos and the first volume of Chantal Akerman’s films.