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  • Boxing Day

    Not quite your usual Christmas-spirited movie for the festive season, Boxing Day is the slow-burning,...

  • Babette’s Feast

    Babette’s Feast is many things:  a fairy tale, a delicate and at times slightly surreal...

  • Pitch Perfect

    Hitting all the right notes with its tuneful combination of music and humour, Pitch Perfect...

  • Great Expectations

    It hasn’t even been a year since the BBC’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great...

  • Sightseers

    In a marked change in tone from director Ben Wheatley’s fabulous Kill List, Sightseers is...

  • Bullhead

    Achieving the rare combination of subtlety and brutality, Bullhead is one of the most striking...

  • I, Anna

    Barnaby Southcombe’s I, Anna is a self-professed “film noir with European sensibility”,...

  • Argo confirms Ben Affleck as an outstanding director

    Based on a true story, Argo is a nail-biting thriller...

  • Love Crime

    Alain Corneau made fourteen feature films in his career from 1973 to 2010 before succumbing...

  • Chinatown at the BFI Southbank

    The film noir genre was short lived: the general consensus among film historians...

  • End of Watch

    End of Watch is a film that feels unripe. Watching it, one feels like it...

  • Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist

    Screened as part of the BFI’s Uncut season and...

  • Pink Flamingos

    John Waters’ Pink Flamingos reached its 40th anniversary recently, and has been screening as...

  • The Devils

    The British Film Institute’s Uncut season is currently underway. Screening films with histories of...

  • Secret of the Wings

    Disney’s timeless animated movies have delighted children and their parents for...

  • People Like Us

    After having worked as a writer and producer on Transformers, Star Trek, Alias and Cowboys...

  • Gambit

    Gambit had a troublesome development since its conception in 1997. Being a remake of the...

  • Secret Cinema

    They don’t advertise themselves. You don’t know what film is going to be screened going...

  • The Hunt

    Poor Thomas Vinterberg. No matter how hard he tries, he still can’t quite free himself...

  • May I Kill U?

    Directed by Stuart Urban and starring Kevin Bishop alongside veteran actresses Frances Barber and...

  • Alps: A sinister study of grief and identity

    Alps is a slow-burning, bleak film about a company of strange people...

  • My Brother the Devil

    Sally El Hosaini recently (deservedly) won the best newcomer prize at the London Film...

  • The Master

    It’s been five years since Paul Thomas Anderson’s last cinematic venture. In 2007 There Will Be...

  • Excision

    Excision is by all accounts a deeply dark and macabre movie about 18 years old...