Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann takes an unhurried and optimistic approach to documenting a class of primary school children in the working-class Viennese neighbourhood of Favoriten.

Whichever side of the debate your snowflake falls, yuletide action doesn’t end with Die Hard. As the nights draw in and the festive season steps into gear, here are 10 more Christmas action greats for ...

Amy Adams brings wholehearted empathy to Mother, an exhausted suburban woman whose animalistic transformation offers a release from the frustrations of parenthood.

In our Autumn 1983 issue, we heard from novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan on The Ploughman’s Lunch, his and Eyre’s exploration of the 'fake present'.

In the year of Latvia’s acclaimed animation Flow and the Lithuanian drama Toxic winning the top prize at Locarno, it’s worth keeping an eye on new Baltic cinema. And so it proved at this year’s ...

Mini-Hollywood is a theme park in the Spanish desert based around the Wild West sets built for Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy. Fifty years on, it offers a window on to a storied period of Spanish film ...

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle – out this month, we hunt for the franchise’s best video game moments, from point-and-click masterpieces to a guest appearance on Fortnite.

But the risk-taking exploits of the great silent comedian have also inspired Keanu Reeves and Brad Pitt in their respective stunting in John Wick (2014) and Bullet Train (2022). Tom Cruise is a fan ...

Not content with being one of the great iconoclasts of modern cinema, David Lynch has also been a trailblazing musical adventurer – and in recent years, it is music that has come to dominate his ...

From working with a young Daniel Day-Lewis to multiple collaborations with Judi Dench, Richard Eyre has many stories from his distinguished career in British film and TV drama. Ahead of a new season ...

Guy Maddin takes his far out irreverence to the masses with a slippery political satire that pits a group of inept world leaders against zombie bog bodies and a giant brain.

As his wild new satire Rumours is unleashed into cinemas, we take a trip into the frantic, archaic, half-remembered dream worlds of the one and only Guy Maddin.