As Risky Business enters the Criterion Collection, we plot the trajectory of a star seemingly incapable of burning out.
From an average anatomy baseball player to a sarcastic personal assistant, Hollywood's newly anointed man of the moment appears to have figured out the formula for success.
Born first as a programme at The Cinema Museum, The Nickel is now moving into a permanent space, offering deep cuts and obscurities to a cine-curious audience.
The unofficial, often open matte scans of these films preserve a tactile history of cinema in its imperfect totality.
Within the wildly successful movies adapted from Sparks' bestselling novels, there's a formula for romantic success.
By Fran Bowden
Three decades on from its release, this 90s thriller echoes the disenfranchisement of young people and sensationalisation of shoplifting.
By Anton Bitel
A maligned VR pioneer, a Powell and Pressburger gem and an Italian football thriller are headed for home ents this month.
A state-funded cinema and archive, the Cineteca Nacional is a beautiful example of a public arts space – but is it for the few, rather than the many?
Meeting monthly at Dalston's Rio Cinema, this new project shows experimental visual art that defies classical categorisation.
The past is undeniably present in contemporary representations of the British war effort, representing an obsession with former military glory and world influence.
Yorgos Lanthimos is up to his old tricks with this delightfully mean allegorical anthology.
Twenty five years on from its release, the rave culture of Justin Kerrigan's ode to doomed youth is all but lost.
By Paul Weedon
Initially known for its experimental output, Bristol-based Invada Records has spent the last decade and a half carving a reputation for its carefully curated roster of film soundtracks.
By Grace Dodd
Thanks to the efforts of the LUMA Foundation and Jarman's friend James Mackay, a series of shorts produced by the pioneering filmmaker have been restored and screened for the first time in London.
By Anton Bitel
A gothic ghost story, a Tokyo love story and a Bob Hoskins classic are among the highlights headed for new editions this month.
On a visit to the Edo-period town of Tomonoura, Adam Marshall explores the real – and imagined – backdrop to one of Hayao Miyazaki’s most beloved films.
In 1992 Greg Glienna released a film about a man meeting his girlfriend's parents for the first time. Eight years later, a Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro comedy with the same premise made a fortune. What happened?
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