Stephen G. Dalton

2 weeks ago | bfi.org.uk | Jez Stewart |Rory Doherty |Anton Bitel |Stephen G. Dalton

As Chicken Run turns 25, we place Aardman’s classic within a history of British animated feature films. They don’t come along very often, but when they do they can be very special. 12 June 2025A quarter of a century after its release, Chicken Run (2000) remains the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time.

3 weeks ago | bfi.org.uk | Rory Doherty |Anton Bitel |Stephen G. Dalton |Barry Levitt

Is Las Vegas an anomaly in a country of anomalies, or the most perfectly distilled expression of America’s contradictions? A city built in the desert, consuming ungodly amounts of power and water in order to look garishly dreamlike, facilitating a nighttime industry of hotels, gambling, casinos, alcohol and sex work (not to mention a substantial amount of marriages and annulments), it has made a fleet of executives extraordinarily wealthy for nigh on a century.

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Stephen G. Dalton |Barry Levitt |Patrick Russell |David Parkinson

British rock and pop cinema has a gloriously rich back catalogue stretching back decades, almost to the dawn of the British pop era. Cliff Richard, The Dave Clark Five, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones all bolstered their early careers with big-screen projects. The Fab Four made a string of comedy films, reinforcing their marketable cartoon image as cheeky Liverpudlian moptop scamps.