Kevin Lyons

Nov 29, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Craig Mann |Adam Scovell |Lisa Kerrigan |Kevin Lyons

On 15 April 2022, former heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience, a podcast on which it is not uncommon for guests to indulge in wild conspiracy theories. In keeping with the show’s reputation, Tyson shared an earnest belief that someone, somewhere has hunted a human being for sport – and, specifically, that a cabal of powerful elites regularly kidnap the vulnerable, traffic them to isolated locales and prey on them like animals.

Nov 26, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Adam Scovell |Lisa Kerrigan |Kevin Lyons |Jacob Heayes

Part of a golden age of (often landscape-infused) adventure tales published for younger readers, Richard Adams’ 1972 novel Watership Down defined many a 1970s childhood in Britain. But Martin Rosen’s subsequent film adaptation of it in 1978 arguably terrified the same generation as much as it thrilled it, with a notoriously dark, occasionally violent, saga realised through innovative animation.

Nov 21, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Lisa Kerrigan |Charles Fairall |Kevin Lyons |Jacob Heayes

Our Mediatheque at BFI Southbank provides access to the digital collections of the BFI National Archive, enabling viewers to travel back in time to other televisual eras. 21 November 2024In 1996 the United Nations declared 21 November as World TV Day in recognition of the influence of the medium, and the power it had in global communications.

Nov 20, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Kevin Lyons |Jacob Heayes |Juana Albina |Stuart Isaac Burnside

Vincent Price remains best remembered for his string of horror film appearances in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, in films like Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe derived classics for American International Pictures and his macabre British duo Witchfinder General (1968) and Theatre of Blood (1973). But he was a man of many passions and interests beyond both horror and cinema in general. Art was a particular obsession, but cooking seemed to be his real love.

Nov 20, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Kevin Lyons |Jacob Heayes |Juana Albina |Stuart Isaac Burnside

Vincent Price remains best remembered for his string of horror film appearances in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, in films like Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe derived classics for American International Pictures and his macabre British duo Witchfinder General (1968) and Theatre of Blood (1973). But he was a man of many passions and interests beyond both horror and cinema in general. Art was a particular obsession, but cooking seemed to be his real love.