16+ hour, 30+ min ago  (605+ words) D is for Distance review: Son records'bfi.org.uk The dulcet tremolo of Ennio Morricone's "A Dimly Lit Room' from Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) bookends D is for Distance, the first feature in 15 years from Chris Petit,…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago  (173+ words) BFI Southbank announces a major two-month season celebrating the rich and diverse history of Brazilian Cinema. Season curators Renata de Almeida (Director of the S'o Paulo International Film Festival), and Adriana Rouanet (Film Producer and Curator, Founder of Colibri Cultural…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (726+ words) Anchored in the dystopian prose of George Orwell, Peck's film traces the genesis of his seminal novel and its connections to our present-day reality of surveillance, using montage to convey its simple and self-evident thesis. In the back seat of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (837+ words) Danger lurks around every corner in Sergei Loznitsa's deliberately drawn-out story of a local Soviet prosecutor seeking truth in a system designed to suppress it. The run-up to the outbreak of World War II saw the curious phenomenon of people…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (802+ words) Starring Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona, Michael Angelo Covino's wry comedy about two couples' experiments with ethical non-monogamy revives the screwball in delightfully slapstick fashion. Monogamy, gradually losing its status as a secular religion in our era of endless options,…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (736+ words) Pompei: Below the Clouds review: Shadows over Naples'BFI Gianfranco Rosi's film might have been called Below the Crowds, since it so often concerns what it calls the "disembowelling' of Naples, the tunnelling by thieves into buried archaeological sites to steal…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (5+ words) Broken English review: Yours Faithfully'BFI...

2+ week, 15+ hour ago  (317+ words) Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's treacly alien buddy comedy about an astronaut stranded in outer space gives even the most curmudgeonly among us things to laugh at. "So I met an alien" Project Hail Mary is a shameless crowd-pleaser, though…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago  (234+ words) From hobbit to horror diehard, Elijah Wood dives into Ready or Not 2 and discusses working with David Cronenberg and Sarah Michelle Gellar, and the secrets of a good scare. Lou Thomas: We first see you in the film sharing a…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (697+ words) With The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal unleashes a genre'bending, punk'toned Frankenstein tale. We spoke to stars Peter Sarsgaard and Pen'lope Cruz about playing detective, favourite icons and Gyllenhaal's unique touch. Like the headline double-act of Buckley and Bale, Sarsgaard and Cruz…...