David Cronenberg is often still treated as body-horror showman taking us through the looking-glass, when in fact he’s holding the mirror up to us. The Shrouds, which premiered in competition at Cannes ...

Almost every genre cliché is lovingly excavated for the first chapter in Kevin Costner’s epic four-part western, but its traditional approach is part of its charm.

Inspired by her unpublished memoir, this documentary exploring the wild life of 1960s actress Anita Pallenberg provides welcome insight on her career as well as her influence on the Rolling Stones.

Claire Denis’ parents would have preferred a different life for her than a career in cinema. As Chocolat arrives on Blu-ray, she sat down with us for a long chat about her childhood in Africa and how ...

Nicolas Cage stars as an unnamed, desperate Australian surfer who is humiliated by a hostile gang of locals in Lorcan Finnegan’s lightly psychedelic B-movie thriller.

It’s a murder mystery that’s elevated both by its erudite script and by the unusually profound things it has to say about the nature of desire. Dana Andrews is the police detective assigned to ...

From Trainspotting to Poor Things, we tot up some of the best examples of Scottish novels going from page to screen.

Artist and filmmaker Stephen Sutcliffe tells us how discovering Lindsay Anderson’s collection of TV video recordings helped inspire his upcoming Experimenta Mixtape at BFI Southbank.

Disaster and dystopian technology haunt The Beast, starring Léa Seydoux and George MacKay as ill-fated lovers in three versions of the past and future. Bertrand Bonello tells us about his Lynchian, ...

Receiving huge acclaim after its first screening, Payal Kapadia’s film is the first Indian feature to be selected in Official Competition at Cannes in three decades.

Although India is the world’s biggest film producer, All We Imagine as Light is the first Indian film to compete for the Palme d’Or in 30 years. What explains this blindspot?

Set many generations after the life of prime ape Caesar, this continuation of the Planet of the Apes series is a paradoxical epic invested with humour and horror in equal measure.