Sam Wigley

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Rory Doherty |Chloe Walker |Sam Wigley

To date, Michael B. Jordan has appeared in every Ryan Coogler film. As if to make up for only giving him a single scene in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), Coogler’s new project, Sinners, casts Jordan in two lead roles: twin Mississippi gangsters Smoke and Stack, whose attempts to start a juke joint with bootlegging money in the Jim-Crow-era south attracts the attention of less than friendly visitors.

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Lou Thomas |Sam Wigley |Josh Slater-Williams |Lillian Crawford

If we could award cool points to composers, Ludwig Göransson would have scored plenty. Leaving aside his extensive work producing Childish Gambino – Donald Glover’s rap alter ego – and credits on tunes by Stormzy, Adele and Lykke Li, Göransson already has two Oscars. The Swedish musician bagged his first best original score statue for frequent collaborator Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther (2018) and the other for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer (2023).

2 weeks ago | bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |David Parkinson |Alex Ramon

Irish tragicomedy, a story of sex and publishing, and a Hitchcock classic on TV. What are you watching this weekend? 4 April 2025Where’s it on? Cinemas nationwideBy a quirk of scheduling, two films about budding gay novelists and the publishing world open in cinemas this week.

3 weeks ago | bfi.org.uk | David Parkinson |Sam Wigley |Alex Ramon

Poor old Ringo Starr. George Harrison was commemorated by Martin Scorsese, while Paul McCartney is about to be profiled by Morgan Neville, and Kevin Macdonald’s One to One: John & Yoko and Alan G. Parker’s Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade are the latest in a long line of tributes to John Lennon –in the last year alone, these included Daytime Revolution, Revival 69, and the three-part John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial.

3 weeks ago | bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Alex Ramon |Michael Brooke

Where’s it on? Cinemas nationwideMisericordia is the eccentric new comic murder drama from Alain Guiraudie, the French director best known for his humid 2013 cruising-ground thriller Stranger by the Lake. Like most of his films, it’s set in France’s rural south, where Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) returns to his hometown to attend the funeral of the baker, a former boss.