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Ghost World plays on 25 July at Cinema Rediscovered, running from 22 to 26 July, as part of its ‘Comics Come Alive’ strand. Two Satanists are strolling down Lincoln Boulevard. It’s a dry, sunny ...

In a film where nothing is taken literally, the biggest enigma of the picture revolves around its protagonist, Moon (Moon Guo Barker): is she meant to be perceived as a child, or is she a child ...

A mammoth adventure epic that shot for 91 days across six months in six countries and cost a reported $250 million to make, The Odyssey is a cinematic beast worthy of its own mythology. Adapting and ...

As Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey arrives in cinemas, we revisit 10 films that journeyed into Greek mythology before it, finding enduring inspiration in an ancient world of gods, monsters and epic ...

A world premiere of the restoration including a Q&A with band members will take place at BFI Southbank, before the film returns to cinemas nationwide on 2 October.

In August 1986, Hong Kong was running out of Ray Bans. Director John Woo and producer Tsui Hark had just unveiled their brooding action epic A Better Tomorrow, a tale of treachery and brotherhood ...

The Last One for the Road: a leisurely Beckettian bender through northeastern Italy ...

The monstrous-feminine on screen: the changing face of cinema’s female monsters ...

Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s witty portrait of a Broadway diva (Bette Davis) fending off age, rivals, and anxieties about the loyalty of a fan-turned-assistant (Anne Baxter) is packed with bitchy banter. A ...

Racial tensions reach boiling point in Spike Lee’s incandescent portrait of a Brooklyn neighbourhood on the hottest day of the year.

Miyazaki Hayao, the co-founder and driving visionary behind Japan’s Studio Ghibli, is renowned for his world-spinning, fecund and furious animated fantasies: across his 11 features he has conjured pre ...