The award-winning film by Christopher Petit and Emma Matthews is coming to cinemas in the UK and Ireland ahead of a release on BFI Player.

From gravity-defying stunts to bullet-sprayed showdowns – as Ringo Lam’s blazing City on Fire returns in a new restoration, we remember the heyday of Hong Kong action movies.

Iwaisawa Kenji’s animation attempts to capture the thrill of competitive running, but its underdeveloped characters leave the action feeling stilted and predictable.

As her latest dark fable The Ice Tower arrives in cinemas, we track back through the career of a French-Bosnian filmmaker who conjures up surreal, foreboding cinematic songs of innocence, evolution ...

Including a major David Lynch retrospective, plus seasons celebrating the Nouvelle Vague filmmakers who inspired Richard Linklater, a look at Gurinder Chadha and Tina Gharavi’s personal archives, and ...

American critic Chris Stuckmann’s crowdfunded debut about a missing paranormal podcaster is often derivative and tasteless, but it’s elevated by great performances and jump-worthy scares.

James Vanderbilt’s film Nuremberg shares many similarities with David W. Rintels’ equally starry 2000 docuseries of the same name. Both track the establishment, processes and arguments of the ...

Gerard Johnson delivers another violent journey through a distinctly London brand of low life with a film about an estate agent in debt to gangsters.

David Osit’s film about the cultural phenomenon that was Chris Hasen’s ‘paedophile-hunting‘ TV series To Catch a Predator doesn’t just interrogate its ethics, it uses raw, unaired footage of the ...

In celebration of Rock Hudson’s centenary, we remember his golden decade of 1950s melodramas, when his robust physicality and warmth as a performer made him an irresistible romantic lead – and the hub ...

Starring a young James Fox in his second ever film, The Magnet – which turns 75 this autumn – is a lesser-known Ealing comedy that provides a unique time-capsule of north-west England in another era.

Benedict Cumberbatch throws himself into the role of the newly widowed dad from Max Porter’s novella, but the presence of a menacing seven-foot Crow and excessive use of jump scares makes this ...