This promotional still for a Michael Powell classic demonstrates the once common practice of applying paints and dyes to black-and-white images.

James Vanderbilt’s film Nuremberg shares many similarities with David W. Rintels’ equally starry 2000 docuseries of the same name. Both track the establishment, processes and arguments of the ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

Our first releases of 2026 include a 5-film collection of the great American documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman and a 1960s British B-film much loved by Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Wright.

In celebration of Rock Hudson’s centenary, we remember his golden decade of 1950s melodramas, when his robust physicality and warmth as a performer made him an irresistible romantic lead – and the hub ...

Jennifer Lawrence stars in Lynne Ramsay’s first film in eight years: as a woman grappling with the emotional strain of early parenthood. She tells us about the influence of Cassavetes, her own ...