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Things almost got gooey.

Powell and Pressburger's classic military satire turns 80 this month. Mark Allison reflects on the controversy around its production, which even incited the prime minister.

The success of ‘The Glass Pearls’ as a paranoia-story hinges largely on being able to sympathise with its Nazi protagonist.

From Bottle Rocket to The French Dispatch, here's every meticulously designed movie by Wes Anderson, ranked.

I SUPPOSE that, when I say John Laurie, I really mean Private Frazer. But Laurie vivified the much loved character in comedy series Dad’s Army, so…

New mystery books by Anthony Horowitz, Louise Penny and more

This autumn, a new UK-wide BFI project will celebrate legendary writer-producer-director team Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

Theresa May has taken the bold decision to appoint Poundland’s Colonel Blimp to a place where he can do some actual harm. The new Foreign Secretary said he would teach the natives from Kathmandu to Merseyside, the basics of Latin-vocab, the LBW rule and how to use a soup spoon. Fluent in several languages, all of them bigot, Mr. Johnson is a natural choice to be the face of the UK – even if that face looks like a confused orangutan. Drawing on his years of multi-cultural experience from Eto...

The Oscar-winning filmmaker helped create the Film Foundation, dedicated to helping studios and archives preserve motion pictures for future generations, as well as restore classics in danger of disappearing forever.

This suite of eight fictional tales, published by the Government, may seem odd – but there’s a long history of the state embracing sci-fi