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Of course, they’re all worth revisiting or discovering with younger family members. As are Casablanca (1942) and The Big Sleep (1946), which are back on the Beeb on Boxing Day. But, this year, they ...

A Florida orange hangs sweetly from its tree: the camera pans left, and it becomes clear that the person gazing at it is horizontal, lying on the grass below. Assuming this person’s point of view, ...

British filmmakers have been producing Christmas pictures for more than 125 years, dating back to G.A. Smith’s Santa Claus in 1898. In 1901 came R.W. Paul’s Scrooge, or Marley’s Ghost (1901), the ...

The story of Christine Norden’s road to fame is a publicist’s dream. While queuing to see a Ray Milland film in the Edgware Road in August 1945, this glamorous daughter of a Sunderland bus driver was ...

Part romcom, part weepie, director John Crowley’s melodrama We Live in Time explores the relationship between chef Almut (Florence Pugh) and corporate lackey Tobias (Andrew Garfield). It was shot ...

Much dust has gathered on Wallace and Gromit’s teapot since their last screen outing, 16 years ago, in A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008); more since their only previous feature, Wallace & Gromit: The ...

This Christmas, anyone trying to prepare a turkey dinner for their extended family should know that, according to a recent survey, cooking a festive spread is one of the main causes of holiday stress.

The tension between bravado and vulnerability, present on some level in so many pop superstars, has always been especially apparent in Robbie Williams. Understanding that the two go together, he has ...

Join us at BFI Southbank for this brand-new, free study day aimed at pupils of both KS3 History and Citizenship, while also exploring themes and topics prevalent in the KS4 specifications for both ...

Marisa Paredes, who has died at the age of 78, oozed old school Hollywood glamour. She had verve, style and a veritable sense of mischief. Her presence and poise were deployed to compelling effect by ...