Johnson, David Mackenzie’s deftly edited crime caper sees a group of men attempt to rob a bank while the military and police are busy defusing a bomb.

On the cover: the Cornish auteur Mark Jenkin on Rose of Nevada and the alchemy of analogue Inside the issue: As Otomo Katsuhiro’s Akira returns to UK cinemas nearly four decades on, Roger Luckhurst ...

A beginner’s path through the career of Peter Weir, from his beginnings in the Australian New Wave to making some of the most vivid and transporting Hollywood films of the 1980s and 90s.

BFI Southbank announces a major two-month season celebrating the rich and diverse history of Brazilian Cinema.

From The Searchers to It Was Just an Accident, kidnapping stories have provided tense movie drama ever since the silent era. As Gus Van Sant’s new thriller Dead Man’s Wire goes on release, we pin down ...

In the 26 film reviews written by Orwell during World War II, the novelist’s analysis was more politically than cinematically minded. From our Autumn 1979 issue.

Peretta’s debut feature follows two 12-year-old best friends who are navigating childhood against a backdrop of political tension and personal loss.

Baz Luhrmann’s all-raving Moulin Rouge – returning to cinemas this week for its 25th anniversary – is not just an ambitious stab at reviving the musical, it is also a rapturous blend of cultural ...

Following the success of Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and The Exorcist (1973), the unofficial, iconic ‘demon child’ trilogy was completed in style with Richard Donner’s The Omen. Gregory Peck and Lee Remick ...

Longtime John Waters collaborator Mink Stole and cult drag icon Peaches Christ reflect on their unlikely creative partnership, the radical legacy of ‘trash cinema’, and how their latest show ...

The fund has awarded £200,000 to British Screen Forum to focus on mapping and improving analysis of data related to financing, audience engagement and commercial performance of independent film.

Directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard construct a fictional ’Ministry of Not Forgetting’ led by Tilda Swinton to investigate the cultural legacy of Marianne Faithfull in a didactic documentary that ...