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 ...

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.

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.

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.

A recent BFI season ‘Black Rodeo’ paid homage to the counterculture phenomenon of the African American ‘western’ and its bold repudiation of mainstream Hollywood tropes. At the European premiere of ...

Ole Gerster’s acclaimed Canary Islands-set thriller, starring Sam Riley as a tennis coach, will be in cinemas from 12 September and on BFI Player from 27 October.

Excavating hidden histories of British Blackness, Lanre Bakare’s book We Were There casts an expansive and overdue spotlight on Black life in the UK and its depictions in screen cultures outside the ...

Before African cinema had institutions, support systems or even meaningful access to production tools, the Beninese Senegalese filmmaker and historian Paulin Soumanou Vieyra was laying its foundations ...

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 ...

Dean Eschler and Lori Hurley, who worked with David Lynch on different seasons of Twin Peaks, recall the pleasures of collaborating with the great director: his infectious sense of wonder, his bold ...

That’s when we turned to iterative possibility sprints – a flexible user research method for exploring possible solutions. In just two weeks (in other words, one sprint), the team sets up a quick idea ...

The second edition of the BFI’s Film on Film Festival takes place at BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX, and includes a rare showing of an original print of Star Wars, among other treasures.