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Spike Lee’s Rodney King film is coming to Netflix next month

By Jack Godwin

The director has adapted Roger Guenveur Smith’s one-man show.

It Felt Like Love: A celebration of 50 great female filmmakers

By Little White Lies

Personal odes to some of the finest women directors from around the world.

Uma Thurman is starring in Lars von Trier’s serial killer movie

By David Jenkins

The Danish provocateur re-teams with a familiar face from his previous, Nymphomaniac.

LWLies x Filmatique – Expanding the landscape

By Ursula Grisham

The Head Curator at VOD platform Filmatique explains what makes her – and this new service – tick.

Would you want the power to decide how a TV series ends?

By Jack Godwin

Netflix is working on interactive shows with multiple endings.

Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are making a film about the Pentagon Papers

By Jack Godwin

The actor will star alongside Meryl Streep in political drama The Post.

Six of Paul Verhoeven’s most controversial moments

By Nick Chen

From Showgirls to Starship Troopers, delve into the Dutch filmmaker’s provocative back catalogue.

A new series tells the story of the greatest horror movies never made

By John Wadsworth

Doomed projects like David Cronenberg’s Frankenstein are discussed in Untold Horror.

An unrealised Akira Kurosawa project is finally being made

By Jack Godwin

The Masque of the Black Death is being developed from a finished script by the late Japanese master.

Why Angel Heart still haunts us 30 years on

By William Carroll

Alan Parker’s violent tale of private detectives and devil worship is a heady blend of neo-noir and horror.

Martin Scorsese pledges to preserve classic African cinema

By John Wadsworth

The director is launching a vital new initiative called The African Film Heritage Project.

Why I love Jesse Eisenberg’s performance in The Social Network

By Victoria Luxford

The actor’s sly take on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg casts a spotlight on the dark side of success.

In defence of Rollerball – the capitalist satire come good

By Nadine Smith

John McTiernan’s maligned 2002 remake is one of the sharper anti-capitalist films of modern times.

Seven great alternative fairy tale movies

By Elizabeth MacLeod

Twisted takes on classic stories, from The Company of Wolves to Black Swan and The Fall.

In praise of 9 to 5 and the ’80s career woman

By Simran Hans

How a socialist feminist fantasy kickstarted a trend for female-fronted mainstream comedies.

Kelly Reichardt on how she got to Kristen Stewart

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

The writer/director reveals how she landed the Hollywood megastar for her new film Certain Women.

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