2+ hour, 22+ min ago  (9+ words) How to Make a Killing review: Bad will hunting'BFI...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (483+ words) Now forgotten, the middle-class domestic farce 29, Acacia Avenue flew the flag for risqu" dialogue and saucy themes more than a decade before the first Carry On film. In November 1949, the London Evening News announced that producer Sydney Box had just…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (694+ words) Seth Rogen, Edward Norton, Pen'lope Cruz and Olivia Wilde are all at the top of their game in this bittersweet partner-swap comedy where the stakes don't extend beyond the living room. After a coming-of-age story of friendship (Booksmart) and a…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (967+ words) Emma Stone stars as a CEO who is kidnapped and accused of being an alien in Lanthimos's dark and schlocky class-warfare thriller. Representing the underclass, we have the conspiracy-crazed Teddy (Jesse Plemons), who has enlisted his neurodivergent cousin Don (Aidan…...

5+ mon, 7+ hour ago  (428+ words) In the first of this year's LFF Screen Talks, Lanthimos sat down with Succession creator Jesse Armstrong to reveal the secret ingredients and approach to actors that underpin his uniquely weird brand of bone-dry satire. Screenwriter Jesse Armstrong described Yorgos…...

6+ mon, 1+ day ago  (800+ words) Rob Reiner's follow-up to This Is Spinal Tap (1984) has plenty of great gags, but without the sharp satire of the original, it feels too close to the hagiographic music docs it once mocked. What's that famous This Is Spinal Tap…...

6+ mon, 2+ day ago  (214+ words) Rob Reiner's mock-rock-doc impressed our critic upon release, both for its gentle ribbing of real-life rockers and the accuracy of its American cast's British-isms. However, the squabbles among the group and their managers are extremely well done " especially when Jeanine…...

6+ mon, 4+ day ago  (72+ words) Our celebration includes the newly discovered short film Boogie, a free exhibition at BFI Southbank, the UK-wide theatrical re-release and BFI Blu-ray remaster of The House of Mirth, and a BFI Player collection. Our celebration includes the newly discovered short…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (154+ words) Jethro Massey's first feature, which sees two people prance around Paris re-enacting dark moments in its history, has an unsettling charm but doesn't quite stick the landing. But if Massey fails to stick the landing, the film nonetheless carries a…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (220+ words) Among a number of post-war British films testing the stereotypically wholesome depiction of mothers and daughters, The Woman in the Hall features Jean Simmons playing a young woman who is driven to crime by her mother's dishonesty. John Krish confirmed…...