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Mike Leigh’s new film has Timothy Spall as artist William Turner. It recreates the artist’s life and early 19th century England in meticulous detail with warts, bad teeth and all. The acting is of the highest level, the film looks great and is as accurate in the facts it tells as the costumes and landscapes...

The FallSeries 2 begins 14 November, BBC 2Gillian Anderson returns as dour Met detective Stella Gibson, transplanted to Belfast to investigate a series of stranglings. We pick up where series one left off, with serial killer Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) having slipped out of her grasp. The Fall is part of the current trend of...

Concerning Violence is a new film by Göran Hugo Olsson, (director of The Black Power Mixtape), based on Frantz Fanon’s classic book The Wretched of the Earth. It is illustrated with archival film of colonial realities and national liberation struggles taken from the vaults of Swedish Television. The film is divided into nine sections ranging...

“We’re going to break an unbreakable Nazi code and win the war” says Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) near the start of this new biopic of the computer pioneer. For anyone who doesn’t know the story, well they do now. And that’s one of the problems for the film makers. So they tweak the plot, glam...

Jake Gyllenhaal plays Lou Bloom, an unemployed thief who becomes a freelance video journalist to escape a life selling scrap metal. With the aid of a police scanner and a car he is first to the scene of crimes, films the immediate aftermath and sells the footage to a local news channel. While ostensibly a...

This deeply moving coming of age film explores the life of an ordinary boy transformed by the world around him. Linklater uses the same actors over 12 years, allowing us to see the protagonist, Mason, literally grow up in front of our eyes. The character progression is seamless and going from junior school through to...

Thanks to a new high definition restoration, Polish director Andrzej Wajda’s iconic 1976 film “Man of Marble” has the chance of a second life. Wajda became famous in the 1950s for his war trilogy which included the masterpiece “Ashes and Diamonds”. These were tragedies of the human condition in the face of profound moral dilemmas....

In his explosive and thought-provoking new volume Film After Film: Or, What became of 21st Century Cinema? James Hoberman argues that the world of making movies has undergone a ground-breaking transformation. His vast and versatile collection of reviews and essays, written mainly for New York’s The Village Voice, affirm Hoberman’s reputation as one of the...

The runaway success of the searing artistic triumph that is 12 Years A Slave has illuminated a wider shifting landscape of black cinema. We are at a pivotal moment for black experience stories driven by black talent or led by a black majority cast. Recent headlines about these films aptly encapsulate this period. In Bloomberg...

The success of movies based on iconic "costumed heroes" can hardly have escaped the notice of anybody who has been awake in the past ten years.

Is it just hype or is the new horror film Cabin in the Woods a gore fest, a butt clenching, genre defining classic as some claim? It was a dark rainy night when I along with four friends – Fred, Velma, Daphne and Shaggy – ventured from our home town of Hackneyville to the Ritzy...

French Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb spoke to Simon Assaf about his new film on the Algerian war of independence, Outside the Law