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1 month ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Barry Levitt |Richard Pickard
Where’s it on? Cinemas nationwideSix years after his globe-conquering thriller Parasite (2019), Bong Joon Ho returns with this colourful dystopian comedy – a snowbound creature feature in the more cartoonish mood of his films Snowpiercer (2013) and Okja (2017).
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1 month ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Richard Pickard |Mike Sutton |Joseph Fahim
Where’s it on? Blu-rayHere is a 1980s romcom to rank alongside Moonstruck (1987) or When Harry Met Sally (1989). Brimming with life and humour, Crossing Delancey is Joan Micklin Silver’s tale of a thirtysomething Jewish New Yorker (Amy Irving) who falls for an attractive author (Jeroen Krabbé) at the bookstore where she works. Meanwhile, her mother – keen to marry her off – sets her up on a date with a pickle salesman on the Lower East Side (Local Hero’s Peter Riegert).
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1 month ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Richard Pickard Lists |Richard Pickard |Mike Sutton |Joseph Fahim
Despite being one of the most popular genres with movie lovers, horror films have long struggled to make headway with the Academy. A visceral genre that ignites the senses, its best offerings hold up a mirror to the social order, yet scary movies are still largely overlooked in favour of the more palatable dramas and biopics which remain the ceremony’s bread and butter.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Michael Brooke |Richard Pickard |Rory Doherty
Where’s it on? Cinemas nationwideIt’s often a warning sign when a film isn’t screened in advance for critics, but in the case of an M. Night Shyamalan movie you have to give the benefit of the doubt: maybe it’s the latest, fiendish Shyamalan twist they’re trying to keep under wraps. Certainly, Shyamalan’s reputation has seen an uplift of late, as the high-concept set-ups of films like Old (2021) and Knock at the Cabin (2023) have reaffirmed his flair for delicious, Twilight Zone-y scenarios.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Michael Brooke |Richard Pickard |Rory Doherty |Sam Wigley
Banned! Censored! Suppressed! As the notorious Roman epic Caligula gets its ultimate cut, we look back on 10 milestones of UK film censorship. 8 August 2024This month sees the UK release of Caligula – The Ultimate Cut, an attempt at reconstructing the film that Gore Vidal thought he’d written and actors like Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren thought they’d appeared in.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Richard Pickard |Lou Thomas |Alex Barrett |Richard Pickard Lists
For a generation of cinemagoers, the films of Tim Burton were a beginner’s guide to the notion of an auteur and a catalyst for lifelong film fandom. There is arguably no other body of work more effective in speaking to a style and a sense of the person sat in the director’s chair, with Burton’s ability to blend the gloomy and frightful with the whimsical, capturing imaginations for almost 40 years.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Jamie Dunn |Sam Wigley |Matthew Thrift |Richard Pickard
Why have there been no major films about Robert Burns? On Burns Night, the question comes to mind. Surely his journey from lowly Ayrshire farm labourer to world-famous poet, via a string of passionate love affairs, is more than deserving of the big screen treatment. Burns’s colourful life story isn’t the only significant chapter of Scottish history that warrants cinematic attention.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Matthew Thrift |Richard Pickard
Where’s it on? Cinemas nationwideTrailer for The End We Start From (2023)Post-apocalyptic cinema usually feels comfortably like a subgenre of sci-fi, but this adaptation of Megan Hunter’s 2017 novel of the same name does a disconcerting job of making its world of catastrophe and collapse feel only a hair’s breadth from our reality. Jodie Comer plays the young mum who gives birth in the midst of an ecological crisis.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Matthew Thrift |Richard Pickard |Sam Wigley |Carmen Gray
As one of Hollywood’s biggest studios celebrates its 100th anniversary, we recommend some of Columbia Pictures' finest films – one from each decade of its history. 18 January 2024By Matthew ThriftIf you’d told any Oscar pundit in the early days of the Academy Awards’ history that, by the time of Columbia Pictures’ centenary in 2024, it would have more best picture wins to its name than any other Hollywood studio, they’d have probably laughed you out of the room.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Richard Pickard |Sam Wigley |Carmen Gray |Bob Mastrangelo
As more and more films are turned into stage shows, these stage versions are being turned back into movies. With Mean Girls and The Color Purple coming up, we chart a growing trend. 16 January 2024By Richard PickardThe mediums of film and musical theatre have both long enjoyed the art of adaptation, as well as the challenges that come with reinterpreting an existing work for a new audience. Stage productions have become films. Films have been adapted for Broadway and the West End.
