Frustrated in his Warner Bros career, gangster movie star Edward G. Robinson came to the UK in the 1930s to play a brash marketing man visiting from across the pond. Robinson’s arrival caused much ...

The festival takes place at BFI Southbank from 26 to 27 July and will open with the UK premiere of Nyle DiMarco and David Guggenheim’s rousing documentary Deaf President Now!

With a season celebrating Dorothy Dandridge opening at BFI Southbank, her biographer talks about the trail-blazing Black Hollywood actress whom Whitney Houston once called ”our Marilyn Monroe”.

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 ...

As the BFI Film on Film Festival came to a close with a 35mm screening of Twin Peaks with special guest Kyle MacLachlan, we announced our plans to honour David Lynch with a forthcoming BFI season.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...