Pixar’s new intergalactic CG cartoon feels turgidly familiar at times, but is saved by strong third-act payoffs and a redemption that’s moving rather than mawkish.

In the first of a new series showcasing treasures from the BFI National Archive, we put a spotlight on some big-statement interior decoration: 1950s wallpaper inspired by Powell and Pressburger’s ...

The government’s Screen Growth Package includes funding boosts across BFI activities and programmes over three years.

One interrogation room, a desktop computer and you as a detective scouring interview clips: Her Story – 10 years old today – is a shattering character study that could only exist as a video game.

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 ...

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”.

Already a military hero by the age of 20, where else could Audie Murphy go but into a Hollywood movie career? One hundred years after he was born, we remember an actor who – although plagued by PTSD ...

As Chicken Run turns 25, we place Aardman’s classic within a history of British animated feature films. They don’t come along very often, but when they do they can be very special.

Danny Boyle and scriptwriter Alex Garland’s horror saga takes an inspired mythical turn, following a young boy’s quest to secure his ailing mother’s safety in what remains of a country ravaged by ...

Bringing claustrophobic dread and gory practical effects to an English village, The Quatermass Xperiment is the movie that put Hammer Films on the map and has proved an enduring inspiration to the ...

On the cover: 1975: the year that changed cinema forever. From Jaws to Jeanne Dielman Inside: Cannes 2025 bulletin, Athina Rachel Tsangari on Harvest, David Cronenberg interviewed by Erika Balsom and ...

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 ...