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Pixar’s new intergalactic CG cartoon feels turgidly familiar at times, but is saved by strong third-act payoffs and a redemption that’s moving rather than mawkish.
In the first of a new series showcasing treasures from the BFI National Archive, we put a spotlight on some big-statement interior decoration: 1950s wallpaper inspired by Powell and Pressburger’s ...
One interrogation room, a desktop computer and you as a detective scouring interview clips: Her Story – 10 years old today – is a shattering character study that could only exist as a video game.
The government’s Screen Growth Package includes funding boosts across BFI activities and programmes over three years.
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 ...
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 ...
On his 90th birthday, we remember Derren Nesbitt’s scene-stealing six-and-a-half minutes as Sturmbannführer von Hapen in the Richard Burton-Clint Eastwood action classic Where Eagles Dare.
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.
Focusing on a boy who must retrieve his cousin’s body after he is beheaded by the mujahideen, Red Path is a potent and precise examination of loss.
Although its rapacious great white shark appears only briefly on screen, Spielberg masterfully builds suspense through the interplay between what’s seen above the surface and what lurks below. Scenes ...
1. Overview BFI NETWORK is a collaboration between the BFI, national film organisations and leading cultural venues around the UK.The partners that make up BFI NETWORK are detailed on the Connect with ...