A forthcoming conference seeks to position the ultraviolent horror franchise within academia – what might we learn from Art the Clown?
Netflix's chart-topping Adolescence is the latest in a long line of single-take stories. But would it be any worse off with a trip to the cutting room?
By Ben Smoke
It's not easy being green, but the Green Rider initiative aims to engage Hollywood's biggest names with making changes to filmmaking that could help reduce the film industry's carbon footprint.
At the turn of the millennium tween girls had plenty of films made for them – nowadays, there's next to nothing. Why did Hollywood give up?
By Simon Bland
Despite flopping on release, Disney's heartwarming story of a dad trying to bond with his son on a summer road trip has become a cult classic – especially for people with children of their own.
By Amy Davidson
From erasure to fetishisation, it's still rare to see the nuances and lived experiences of autistic people – especially women – on the big screen.
Producing realistic baby bumps, placentas and prop babies, Cinebaby are working to improve the representation of maternity in film and television.
Tool up for an illustrated deep dive into Sinners and the radical blockbuster cinema of Ryan Coogler.
It seems as though a new documentary about a legendary band pops up every week – but what separates the wheat from the chaff?
By Ralph Jones
Dan Perri, the man behind some of the film world's most iconic credits sequences, reflects on half a century of his work.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, James Mangold's adaptation of Susanna Kaysen's memoir about her mental illness isn't perfect – but there's a reason it still resonates with young women.
A new exhibition in Milan sheds light on the multiplicity of collaborative processes in the filmmaking world through the preliminary drawings developed for Psycho, Train to Busan, Wings of Desire and beyond.
Tucked away on a narrow street in Bristol, an Aladdin's cave of DVDs persists despite the odds. For one employee, it's the Hotel California of video shops.
By Nadira Begum
A trailblazer on the global cinema stage as well as in his home of Mali, Souleymane Cissé's cinema of imagination changed the world.
A spate of recent works are pondering the concept of replicating or separating oneself in response to our increasingly economically perilous world.
Caveh Zahedi counts Greta Gerwig and the Safdie Brothers among his admirers – but where do you begin with a beast as strange and sprawling as his all-consuming magnum opus?
By Mila Fielker
A dystopian retro-future of telepathic mutants, gladiators and fascists – does Joe D’Amato’s vision of 2025 show any resemblance to our current reality?
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