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’s fair to say ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

One gasps one's way through Point Break, partly in admiration, partly in shock, often because time to breathe appears limited,” wrote our critic upon the initial release of Kathryn Bigelow’s ...

The Outrun, Nora Fingsheidt’s adaptation of the Amy Liptrot novel, follows with 9 nominations, while Andrea Arnold’s Bird, Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl and Sally El Hosaini and James ...

From leaping on to galloping horses for John Ford’s Stagecoach to masterminding Ben-Hur’s chariot race, legendary stuntman and stunt coordinator Yakima Canutt pushed the boundaries of realism for ...