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Currently on display as part of the Design Museum’s celebration of a century of swimming style, this 1920s promo image offers a tantalising glimpse of a sadly lost silent feature starring Bebe Daniels ...
As Blondie singer Debbie Harry turns 80, we remember her coolly controlled aura and dangerous mystique in David Cronenberg’s stomach-churning psychosexual satire Videodrome.
The celebrated British game designer has gone back to his globe-trotting conspiracy game Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars for a new tweaked edition. He tells us what’s changed, and why there ...
Director Gerard Johnstone takes a Terminator 2 approach with this funny, scaled-up sequel to his popular 2022 horror, which sees M3GAN tasked with defeating a world-threatening AI fembot.
The programme includes seasons dedicated to Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, and the continuation of our Moviedrome celebration.
Ahead of his centenary on 1 July, we remember Farley Granger’s achingly tragic performance in his first starring role: as one of the fugitive lovers in Nicholas Ray’s directorial debut, They Live by ...
Plunge into July’s BFI Player line-up, which once again gathers the greatest in world cinema, white-hot and riveting.
From Jaws to Jeanne Dielman, Dog Day Afternoon to Salò, 1975 was a landmark year for cinema. Here, Adam Nayman inspects 1975’s many treasures – big blockbusters, revered classics and hidden gems alike ...
Broadcasting a weekly diet of transgressive, iconoclastic cinema into British living rooms, the BBC’s Moviedrome series turned a generation of viewers into adventurous cinephiles. How did it come ...
In Sight and Sound’s 2025 Summer special, the Black Bag and Erin Brockovich director explains why Steven Spielberg’s classic delivers a masterclass in film technique and marvels at his fortitude in ...
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 ...
With a season celebrating Dorothy Dandridge opening at BFI Southbank, her biographer talks about the trail-blazing Black Hollywood actress whom Whitney Houston once called ”our Marilyn Monroe”.