Inspired by a lunchtime pizza, Bandai Namco’s bright yellow mascot has endured remarkably since he first started chomping 45 years ago. From Saturday morning cartoons to cereal, pop songs to pyjamas, ...

Twenty-five years on from the premiere of In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar Wai looks back on the complicated genesis of his masterpiece of desire and restraint.

As the controversial debut film by British auteur Thomas Clay comes to BFI Player, we look back on the outrage it caused in 2005, the method behind the film‘s upsetting impact, and its parallels with ...

Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone’s comic talents are lost to one-dimensional roles in a misguided pandemic satire filled with dated jokes and disingenuous political messaging.

The German director’s gorgeous, drifting study of a woman taken in by a stranger after a car crash has faint echos of Vertigo, but is more concerned with unnerving family dynamics than romance.

The Final Destination franchise has had many unconvincing endings, but the latest resuscitation of the series is filled with gallows humour and fan-friendly callbacks, including the infamous logging ...

Before Lost in Translation there was Tokyo Pop, which – after decades in rights limbo – is now restored and ripe for reappraisal. We speak to director Fran Rubel Kuzui (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) about ...

Coming back to the title of this post, in April we entered year 3 of delivering Screen Culture 2033, which will be a pivotal year for the BFI ’s digital transformation.

Outdated attitudes but also pioneering compassion abound in these 10 path-finding documentaries about mental health from the 1940s to the 1990s.

A world exclusive interview with Tom Cruise Inside: The latest edition of Black Film Bulletin, Wes Anderson on The Phoenician Scheme, The career of Mai Zetterling, the legacy of the Film Society, arch ...

As indie gem Good One wanders into cinemas – right in the middle of National Walking Month – we hit the trail in search of 10 other films that capture the joy (and terror) of hiking.

It made the Observer film critic laugh until her ribs ached, but its scenes of women fighting and men licking their lips caused trouble with the 1940s censors. Curator Josephine Botting digs into the ...