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Alex Cox on the legacy of Moviedrome, the BBC’s essential cult film slot

4 days ago | bfi.org.uk | Matthew Taylor |Miriam Bale |Rachel Pronger |Sam Davies

“What is a cult film?” asked Alex Cox, the iconoclastic director of Repo Man (1984), Sid and Nancy (1986) and Walker (1987), in the first of his many introductions for one of British television’s most unique and enduring cinema strands. Emerging on BBC2 in 1988 to shake up the typically staid Sunday night schedules, Moviedrome was a beguiling forum for strange, striking and singular films from across different eras.
28 Years Later review: new dawn for a dead franchise

4 days ago | bfi.org.uk | Henry Miller |Chris Shields |Mark Kermode |Adam Nayman

Forget about the Queen, James Bond, and the NHS: the centrepiece of Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics was the industrial revolution. 28 Years Later is a zombie film, just about, but it is far more so a vision of Britain in a future Dark Age that resembles the distant past, not only pre-industrial but practically pre-English, a lawless land of warring tribes.
Audie Murphy centenary: how the most decorated soldier in American history became a movie star

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Chloe Walker |Stephen Dalton |David Parkinson |Philip Concannon

Audie Murphy had a rough childhood, to put it mildly. He was one of 12 children of poor Texan sharecroppers, but his father left the family when Murphy was in his early teens, and his mother died soon after. Murphy had to hunt small game so his siblings would have enough food to eat. Thanks in part to his deprived upbringing, he cut such a slight figure that he was initially rejected by several branches of the military when he tried to join.
Steven Soderbergh on Jaws: “Every time I look at the film, it gets better”

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Philip Concannon |David Parkinson |Josephine Botting |George Bass

What I love about watching Jaws now is that for all the technology that exists, which didn’t exist 50 years ago, there’s nothing new that’s been invented that makes moving that pneumatic shark on a sled any easier. It’s still as hard today as it was then. It’s all ‘in camera’, and to this day nobody has been able to really duplicate what was accomplished, even in the sequels.
Red Path review: a daring Tunisian drama

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Chris Shields |Mark Kermode |Adam Nayman

Red Path confronts viewers with the kind of shocking political violence many would rather ignore. Based on a true story, Tunisian theatre and film director Lotfi Achour’s relentlessly grim drama follows a young Tunisian shepherd named Nizar who is beheaded by the mujahideen when he and his younger cousin Achraf (Ali Helali) go in search of a water source on occupied land.
10 great shark attack films

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Jez Stewart |Rory Doherty |Anton Bitel

Released in the summer of 1975, 50 years ago, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws made audiences around the globe afraid to go back into the water. Although its rapacious great white shark appears only briefly on screen, Spielberg masterfully builds suspense through the interplay between what’s seen above the surface and what lurks below. Scenes of carefree tourists swimming are juxtaposed with ominous shots of their dangling legs beneath the waves, all intensified by John Williams’ famous menacing score.
28 Days Later reviewed in 2002

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Mark Kermode |Adam Nayman |Violet Lucca

With director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland’s 28 Years Later hitting cinemas this week, we revisit Mark Kermode’s review of the first film in the franchise. 17 June 2025After the mainstream meanderings of The Beach, this back-to-basics genre hybrid finds director Danny Boyle on home ground, delivering exactly the kind of pacey entertainment that once earned him the title of “the future of British film”.
Finest hours: Derren Nesbitt as the hissable Nazi in Where Eagles Dare, “the least boring film ever made”

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | David Parkinson |Josephine Botting |George Bass |Pamela Hutchinson

It takes chops to steal a film from Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. But Derren Nesbitt – who turns 90 on 19 June – did exactly that in Brian G. Hutton’s film of Alistair MacLean’s Where Eagles Dare (1968). And he was only on screen for a fraction of the epic’s 155-minute running time. He had played Germans before, in The Blue Max (1965) and The Naked Runner (1967).
Edward G. Robinson’s rare British film: remembering 1930s fish-out-of-water drama Thunder in the City

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Josephine Botting Rarities |Josephine Botting |George Bass |Pamela Hutchinson

In September 1962, the Sunday Express reported on the presence of a fading Hollywood star in London. “Once he could not have stepped into a London street without being mobbed,” the article said. “Now at 8.30 on a busy morning in Oxford Street, no one pays the slightest attention to him. Who is he, this man with a beard who goes unnoticed in the crowd? He was once the greatest screen tough guy of them all.” The former ‘tough guy’ was Edward G.
70 years of Hammer’s The Quatermass Xperiment: a very British alien invasion movie

2 weeks ago | bfi.org.uk | George Bass |Pamela Hutchinson |Adam Scovell |Tambay Obenson

Bringing claustrophobic dread and gory practical effects to an English village, The Quatermass Xperiment is the movie that put Hammer Films on the map and has proved an enduring inspiration to the likes of Stephen King and John Carpenter. 13 June 2025An experimental space rocket has returned to earth, crash-landing outside an English village.