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Nick James

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  • 1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Stuart Isaac Burnside |Chloe Walker |Nick James |Christopher Bird

    Nintendo can often seem a company led by contradictions. For every fresh trail the Kyoto giant blazes, there’s an example of them being stubbornly stuck in the past. 2015 was the age of the Wii U, their ambitious but flawed follow-up to the mega-successful Wii.

  • 1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Chloe Walker |Nick James |Christopher Bird |Stuart Isaac Burnside

    On what would have been her 100th birthday, we remember model-turned-actress Martha Vickers and her scene-stealing performance – playing younger sister to Lauren Bacall – as the flirtatious Carmen Sternwood. 28 May 2025“You’re not very tall, are you?”In the opening scene of 1946 noir classic The Big Sleep, Carmen Sternwood makes quite the impression. After disparaging the height of private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart), the two trade more flirtatious words.

  • Feb 20, 2025 | bfi.org.uk | Nick James |Nicolas Rapold |Jessica Kiang |Sam Wigley

    A swimmer floats on her back off Copacabana Beach as a helicopter flies above. She is Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), whose five children are playing beach volleyball while a stray dog keeps interfering. The family’s blissful life of affection and closeness is signalled by the children’s adoption of the dog, agreed to by their easy-going, burly engineer father Rubens (Selton Mello), the figure on whom, at first, the film centres.

  • Dec 4, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Duncan Wheeler |George Bass |Nick James |Michael Brooke

    In the 2002 tragicomic faux western 800 Bullets, Basque filmmaker Alex de la Iglesia homes in on the life and fragmented family of an ageing stuntman in Almería who ekes out a living by recreating scenes from the mythical western films in which he once participated.

  • Nov 7, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Philip Strick |Guy Lodge |Jessica Kiang |Nick James

    “One gasps one's way through Point Break, partly in admiration, partly in shock, often because time to breathe appears limited,” wrote our critic upon the initial release of Kathryn Bigelow’s adrenaline-fuelled game of cat-and-mouse.

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