Benedict Cumberbatch throws himself into the role of the newly widowed dad from Max Porter’s novella, but the presence of a menacing seven-foot Crow and excessive use of jump scares makes this ...

As her latest dark fable The Ice Tower arrives in cinemas, we track back through the career of a French-Bosnian filmmaker who conjures up surreal, foreboding cinematic songs of innocence, evolution ...

American critic Chris Stuckmann’s crowdfunded debut about a missing paranormal podcaster is often derivative and tasteless, but it’s elevated by great performances and jump-worthy scares.

David Osit’s film about the cultural phenomenon that was Chris Hasen’s ‘paedophile-hunting‘ TV series To Catch a Predator doesn’t just interrogate its ethics, it uses raw, unaired footage of the ...

Edgar Wright’s faithful adaptation of Stephen King’s 1982 novel about a deadly cross-country chase TV gameshow starring Glen Powell as fugitive Ben Richards is crammed with skilful action sequences, ...

From gravity-defying stunts to bullet-sprayed showdowns – as Ringo Lam’s blazing City on Fire returns in a new restoration, we remember the heyday of Hong Kong action movies.

Gerard Johnson delivers another violent journey through a distinctly London brand of low life with a film about an estate agent in debt to gangsters.

The BFI2022 strategy made a commitment to look more deeply at the UK independent film sector as digital innovation is creating seismic change for the industry and offering new opportunities to ...

In frozen Changchun, Tony Rayns visited Zhang Yimou as he shot the last scenes of his film To Live. The director spoke with Rayns about laughter as a form of resilience and the state of filmmaking in ...

In a bumper year for screen adaptations of Stephen King’s work, the director of The Running Man, a dystopian thriller about a bloodthirsty TV gameshow, talks to the author about media manipulation, ...

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