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The humour might be inconsistent, but there’s real chemistry between Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan as former lovers and bandmates who meet again for a well paid one-off gig.
With landmark Irish horror film The Outcasts now available on BFI Player, we choose 10 more tales of fear and folklore from the Emerald Isle.
From bold Pride Month premieres to global cinematic treasures, June’s BFI Player film line-up is a celebration of identity, imagination and storytelling at its most powerful. Dive into a month of ...
Josh O’Connor stars as a wannabe criminal who fumbles a small-time art robbery in Reichardt’s ingenious evocation of 1970s suburban Massachusetts.
The winning submission by Ivie Uzebu offers a vibrant and insightful take on Mountains, the debut feature from Haitian-American filmmaker Monica Sorelle.
As Memoir of a Snail comes to BFI Player, Andrew Osmond joins the dots of recent critically acclaimed animated features that have seen indie creators taking on the big studios.
Nintendo's twist on the online shooter swapped guns, bullets and gore for spray cans, rollers and gallons of glossy, sloppy paint. Now 10 years old, we celebrate the franchise that threw teams of ...
Although overshadowed by their famous brother John – the ‘father of British documentary’ – Ruby and Marion Grierson deserve recognition for their own pioneering innovations in documentary filmmaking.
Stellan Skarsgård delivers a career best performance as Gustav Borg, a self-involved director and absent dad who tries to convince his anxious actress daughter (played by a fantastic Renate Reinsve) ...
Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor’s tale of gay love and folk music set in early 20th-century America is handsomely made but lacks emotional intensity.
Twenty-five years on from the premiere of In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar Wai looks back on the complicated genesis of his masterpiece of desire and restraint.
In what is probably his final outing as Ethan Hunt, Tom Cruise squares up against AI in a series of spectacular set-pieces in the sky and sea.