Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s treacly alien buddy comedy about an astronaut stranded in outer space gives even the most curmudgeonly among us things to laugh at.

From The Searchers to It Was Just an Accident, kidnapping stories have provided tense movie drama ever since the silent era. As Gus Van Sant’s new thriller Dead Man’s Wire goes on release, we pin down ...

From hobbit to horror diehard, Elijah Wood dives into Ready or Not 2 and discusses working with David Cronenberg and Sarah Michelle Gellar, and the secrets of a good scare.

Baz Luhrmann’s all-raving Moulin Rouge – returning to cinemas this week for its 25th anniversary – is not just an ambitious stab at reviving the musical, it is also a rapturous blend of cultural ...

Look inside Derek Jarman’s scrapbook for Blue, where notes, drawings and clippings reveals the research, process and imagination behind his devastating and austere final film.

Long overshadowed by 16mm and 8mm, the curious 9.5mm format once opened a doorway to cinema for home audiences and young filmmakers alike – and today stands as a vital archive of films that survive ...

Fernando Eimbcke’s sharp eye for composition captures the restless present tense of childhood in a bittersweet film about a young boy in Mexico City trying to make sense of his mother’s illness.

London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary, we travel back through its history to select 40 queer cinema classics that you might not have seen.

As Nicolas Roeg’s enigmatic, unclassifiable film – in which David Bowie plays an alien visiting Earth – turns 50, we look back at Tom Milne’s deciphering of it. From our Summer 1976 issue.

From 21 Jump Street to The Lego Movie, Phil Lord and Chris Miller specialise in making great pop cinema out of unlikely material. As their new film Project Hail Mary sends Ryan Gosling out into the ...

Cillian Murphy reprises his role as the Brummie gangster, this time to face his estranged son Duke (Barry Keoghan), in a bloody big-screen version of the TV series that will go down well with fans.

As the awards season reaches its climax, Adam Nayman looks deeper at the how and the why of acting excellence, as well as the who.