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Watch Viggo Mortensen’s directorial debut Falling

By Little White Lies

The actor’s astute first feature as a director is now available to stream via Modern Films.

Aardman and Netflix are making an animated Christmas musical

By Charles Bramesco

Gillian Anderson and Richard E Grant will lend their vocal stylings to Robin Robin.

Christmas gift guide 2020 – 10 ideas for film lovers

By Little White Lies

From apparel to book and Blu-rays, here are some of our favourite movie-themed items for this festive season.

A new film programme challenges perceptions of fat bodies

By Hannah Strong

Curated by Grace Barber-Plentie, Reframing the Fat Body allows plus size people to exist without judgement or limitation.

A new film asks, is there such a thing as a guilty pleasure?

By Logan Kenny

Catherine Bray’s essay film Guilt-Free Pleasures looks at how canonisation affects cultural perception.

The other side of Marlene Dietrich

By Pamela Hutchinson

A new season at BFI Southbank celebrates the career of this screen icon, including many of her lesser-known works.

An online European film festival is offering 10 films to watch at home for free

By Little White Lies

ArteKino celebrates the best in European film for the month of December with a programme of online screenings.

Watch this powerful new film about white guilt and Black womanhood

By Leila Latif

Somalia Seaton’s A Response to Your Message is a personal reflection on this year’s Black Lives Matter protests.

Hirokazu Koreeda is preparing his first Korean-language film

By Charles Bramesco

Wachowskis regular Bae Doona and Parasite’s Song Kang-ho lead the cast of Baby, Box, Broker.

David Squires on… The Queen’s Gambit: Hungry Hungry Hippos edition

By Little White Lies

A popular tabletop game that requires considerable guile and skill – and we’re not talking about chess...

The films of Orson Welles – ranked

By Little White Lies

From Citizen Kane to The Other Side of the Wind, we survey the directorial canon of a cinematic titan.

Could you design an El Camino bumper sticker?

By Little White Lies

To celebrate the film’s home ents release, we’re setting a Breaking Bad-inspired creative brief.

Why now is the perfect time to watch Goodbye, Dragon Inn

By James Balmont

Tsai Ming-liang’s 2003 film, newly released on Blu-ray, is a poignant and powerful love letter to the cinema.

Channing Tatum reunites with Lord & Miller for a monster movie send-up

By Charles Bramesco

It’s alive! (‘It’ being a parody of Universal’s classic horror pictures, courtesy of the Jump Street directors.)

Looking into the heart of Miller’s Crossing

By David Jenkins

The Coen brothers’ classic gangland neo-noir remains one of their most potent and illusive works.

Trauma and catharsis in Gregg Araki’s Mysterious Skin

By Logan Kenny

The film shows the everyday agonies of existing as queer and dealing with trauma in an apathetic world.

Spike Lee is planning to direct a Viagra origin story musical

By Charles Bramesco

The songwriting team behind Passing Strange is also on board for the director’s take on Pfizer’s wonder drug.

Vanessa Kirby grieves in the Pieces of a Woman trailer

By Charles Bramesco

She shares top billing with Shia LaBeouf in this emotive drama about a couple who lose their infant child.

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