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A stellar British cast including Ewan McGregor, Naomie Harris and Damian Lewis star in this latest adaptation of the best-selling novel from John le Carré. While on holiday, university lecturer Perry Makepeace (McGregor) encounters Russian gangster Dmitri Vladimirovich Krasnov (Stellan Skarsgård) and gets embroiled in a high stakes game of international espionage.

Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, Avatar: The Way of Water begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies […]

Can’t start a fire without a spark, and you can’t become a world-famous writer when you’re from Luton. Or so Javed (Viviek Kalra) thinks. It’s 1987, and it’s not easy being British Pakistani in a commuter town living through the tatters of Thatcher’s Britain. But salvation arrives in the unlikely shape of Bruce Springsteen, whose […]

Montparnasse 19, a film about the tragic final years in the life of Italian painter and sculptor Amadeo Modigliani, was itself beset by tragedy. Max Ophuls, the famed director of Letter from an Unknown Woman and Le Plaisir, died during its production, leaving his friend Jacques Becker to complete the picture. Its lead performer too, […]

Det är ingen underdrift att kalla Thor Modéen och Åke Söderblom för det mest älskade och kritikerhyllade komikerparet som den svenska filmen skådat. Deras filmer har roat generationer och står för en komisk stil som inte bara definierar en epok utan också skapat ett arv som hyllas än idag. Missa inte heller stora namn som […]

Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In F for Fake, a free-form sort-of documentary by Orson Welles, the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) gleefully reengages with the central preoccupation of his career: the tenuous lines between illusion and truth, art and lies. Beginning with portraits of the world- renowned art forger Elmyr de Hory and his equally devious […]

During a long hot summer in south London Jamie is bunking off school more than usual, scurrying back to the TV and the flat in the Thamesmead estate where he lives with his mother Sandra. Whilst his neighbour Leigh, who’s been kicked out of school, spends her days listening to Mama Cass records. In the […]

A landmark for Black – and Queer – British film, Isaac Julien’s iconic, beautifully crafted 1991 period piece has been newly remastered by the BFI. Isaac Julien’s groundbreaking inner-city murder mystery explores London subcultures of the late 1970s. Pirate radio hosts Caz and Chris decide to investigate the death of their friend, who was killed […]