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Different Class: the decline of British blue collar stories on screen

By Sam Davies

25 years since Nil By Mouth first hit screens, Gary Oldman’s film has become a relic of a time when working-class stories were major cinematic events. What happened?

Watch the 4K restoration trailer for True Romance

By Charles Bramesco

Arrow Video is giving the 4K treatment to an early ’90s triumph from Quentin Tarantino and Tony Scott.

On Location: The South London of Alan Clarke’s The Firm

By Adam Scovell

The British director’s controversial football hooligan drama makes great use of various domestic locales.

Mank

By Hannah Strong

The man behind the man behind Citizen Kane is the subject of David Fincher’s sparkling paean to classic Hollywood.

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Feast your eyes on hundreds of behind-the-scenes photos from Mank

By Charles Bramesco

A newly surfaced website also previews Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor’s score.

It’s Hollywood versus Hearst in the full trailer for Mank

By Charles Bramesco

David Fincher pits art against commerce in the story of Herman Mankiewicz's tragic downfall.

David Fincher transports viewers to a bygone Hollywood in the Mank trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The director’s first feature film in six years tells the story of how Citizen Kane was written.

David Fincher returns to cinemas with first images from Mank

By Charles Bramesco

His first feature in six years chronicles the tensions between Orson Welles and Herman J Mankiewicz on Citizen Kane.

The Laundromat

By David Jenkins

Stephen Soderbergh assembles an all-star cast to sift through the wreckage of the 2015 Panama Papers leak.

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Steven Soderbergh plays the market in The Laundromat trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Meryl Streep and Gary Oldman lead the director’s Big Short-esque financial caper.

What’s the key ingredient at this year’s Oscars? Eggs, of course

By Emma Fraser

This breakfast staple features in five out of the nine Best Picture nominees at the 90th Academy Awards.

Darkest Hour

By Trevor Johnston

Gary Oldman is on career-best form in this standard issue Winston Churchill biopic from director Joe Wright.

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The Hitman’s Bodyguard

By David Jenkins

This potty-mouthed road trip from Coventry to The Hague stars Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L Jackson and some top comic bants.

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Revisiting forgotten queer classic Prick Up Your Ears

By Catherine Pearson

This tragicomic Joe Orton biopic offers a fascinating glimpse into London’s hidden homosexual community.

Queer classic Prick Up Your Ears is returning to cinemas

By Little White Lies

Gary Oldman delivers a sensational turn in this biopic of the late playwright Joe Orton.

Is Nil by Mouth the bleakest kitchen-sink drama ever made?

By William Carroll

With his directorial debut, Gary Oldman offers a deeply affecting study of addiction and domestic abuse.

Man Down

By Jack Godwin

A fired-up Shia LaBeouf tries and fails to salvage this muddled war drama.

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