Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s treacly alien buddy comedy about an astronaut stranded in outer space gives even the most curmudgeonly among us things to laugh at.

From The Searchers to It Was Just an Accident, kidnapping stories have provided tense movie drama ever since the silent era. As Gus Van Sant’s new thriller Dead Man’s Wire goes on release, we pin down ...

From hobbit to horror diehard, Elijah Wood dives into Ready or Not 2 and discusses working with David Cronenberg and Sarah Michelle Gellar, and the secrets of a good scare.

Baz Luhrmann’s all-raving Moulin Rouge – returning to cinemas this week for its 25th anniversary – is not just an ambitious stab at reviving the musical, it is also a rapturous blend of cultural ...

Look inside Derek Jarman’s scrapbook for Blue, where notes, drawings and clippings reveals the research, process and imagination behind his devastating and austere final film.

Long overshadowed by 16mm and 8mm, the curious 9.5mm format once opened a doorway to cinema for home audiences and young filmmakers alike – and today stands as a vital archive of films that survive ...

Toggling between 2D and 3D animation, Hosoda Mamoru’s gender-swapped take on Hamlet takes admirably big swings but only skims the surface of its deeper thematic concerns.

John Patton Ford's modern reimagining of Kind Hearts and Coronets, in which Glen Powell plays a disowned son who kills off his relatives to secure a hefty inheritance, is fun enough at first, but too ...

From 21 Jump Street to The Lego Movie, Phil Lord and Chris Miller specialise in making great pop cinema out of unlikely material. As their new film Project Hail Mary sends Ryan Gosling out into the ...

This week, learn about a recent re-discovery and a series of guest lectures looking at born-digital filmmakers archives.

Bi Gan’s vivid storytelling moves through the astral planes in Resurrection, reincarnating a rebel dreamer (Jackson Yee) across 100 years of Chinese history, experienced as six chapters each in a ...

As Nicolas Roeg’s enigmatic, unclassifiable film – in which David Bowie plays an alien visiting Earth – turns 50, we look back at Tom Milne’s deciphering of it. From our Summer 1976 issue.