Iwaisawa Kenji’s animation attempts to capture the thrill of competitive running, but its underdeveloped characters leave the action feeling stilted and predictable.

Including a major David Lynch retrospective, plus seasons celebrating the Nouvelle Vague filmmakers who inspired Richard Linklater, a look at Gurinder Chadha and Tina Gharavi’s personal archives, and ...

From bustling night markets to neon-lit bridges, Taipei has long been a cinematic muse. As the iPhone-shot drama Left-Handed Girl gives the Taiwanese capital its latest starring role, strap in for a ...

Marion Cotillard’s impressive performance as a glacial screen diva is matched by newcomer Clara Pacini in Hadžihalilović’s coolly calibrated vision of The Snow Queen.

Following a successful launch in Folkestone a few week’s back, our new Inside the Archive exhibition ventured to QUAD in Derby. Our visit coincided with their Frankenstein day, where the cinema ...

Starring a young James Fox in his second ever film, The Magnet – which turns 75 this autumn – is a lesser-known Ealing comedy that provides a unique time-capsule of north-west England in another era.

Sleaford Mods’ vocalist Jason Williamson stars as a violent poacher with a grudge against local ravers in a solid debut that has a little drop of psychedelia in its scrumpy.

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.

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 ...

American critic Chris Stuckmann’s crowdfunded debut about a missing paranormal podcaster is often derivative and tasteless, but it’s elevated by great performances and jump-worthy scares.

A great action film for every year, 1924 to now ...

BFI and Film4 Future Takes offers support for higher-budget live action, short-form projects from teams of writers, directors and producers based in the UK. Applications are now closed. Driven by a ...