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The AI Cumberbatch was 100% the voice, says William, saying that the company was convinced it was the real actor - until they noticed warning signs.

Director Barney Platts-Mills, Unanimously invited by Cannes Critics Week, Winner of the Golden Leopard & ScreenWriters Guild Award is back after 27 years with an love poem to Morocco. Official Selection for its World Premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR 2011) Zohra: A Moroccan Fairytale (2011), is a portrait of ZOHRA, a 14-year old village girl in Morocco who lives a simple rural life of routine. She is oblivious to an existence other than what she knows. But when she is p...

I should have been working on my book, but instead I was hanging out with my friends. Then a man I barely knew gave me a computer – and a kick up the backside

With the cult British youth film Bronco Bullfrog on re-release in the US, we went looking for the film’s east London locations. Would Del recognise the Stratford of today?

Barney Platts-Mills’s 1969 feature about aimless East End teenagers in love comes to Film Forum after a cinematic rediscovery.

We count down the 50 best films of 2021. How many have you seen? Also inside: the best TV, books and discs of the year; interviews with Paul Thomas Anderson, Guillermo del Toro, Joanna Hogg and Paolo Sorrentino