Broadcasting a weekly diet of transgressive, iconoclastic cinema into British living rooms, the BBC’s Moviedrome series turned a generation of viewers into adventurous cinephiles. How did it come ...

Danny Boyle and scriptwriter Alex Garland’s horror saga takes an inspired mythical turn, following a young boy’s quest to secure his ailing mother’s safety in what remains of a country ravaged by ...

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”.

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 ...

Already a military hero by the age of 20, where else could Audie Murphy go but into a Hollywood movie career? One hundred years after he was born, we remember an actor who – although plagued by PTSD ...

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.

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 ...

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!

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.

With director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland’s 28 Years Later hitting cinemas this week, we revisit Mark Kermode’s review of the first film in the franchise.

Known for his idiosyncratic tales of yakuza and swordsmen, the great Takeshi Kitano has now made a period epic exploring queer desire among samurai in 1500s Japan. Following Kubi’s UK premiere, we ...