The British actress Ann Lynn, who has died aged 86, was a stalwart of British B-films as well as a stage and television actor. She was born Elizabeth Ann Lynn in London to a theatrical family – her ...

Film buffs, StudioCanal has a very special gift for you: a Peter Sellers centenary collection, eight restored comedy classics all in one box-set on Blu-ray. Namely – deep breath – Heaven’s Above, The ...

I feel a warm attachment to this film which is not something that I had anticipated. It is the case that The Portuguese House has won ten awards but most of them were received in Spain which counts as ...

The British filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel is well established having made a number of feature films and even more shorts, but it is only now with The Cycle of Love that I have come across his work.

It’s reassuring that there are still spaces like Alaska left in the world, untouched by retail parks and data factories. For much of the running time of Heart of the Beast, the snowy peaks and virgin ...

You think you’ve seen every Laurel & Hardy short ever made and then those good people at Eureka Entertainment release a new package of delights which has you laughing afresh, all over again. In those ...

Johnny Depp directs an eccentric but often striking take on the life of the Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani. Depp’s film was written by a husband-and-wife team, Jerzy Kromolowski and ...

John Lennon died in 1980 but all these years later we still have a spate of works whether books or films which look back on his life and times be that in a context that brings in Yoko Ono, Paul ...

The oddest element about this formulaic potboiler is that it’s a remake of a 2023 Spanish film, Culpa mía. A sequel, Culpa Tuya (aka Your Fault) was released on Prime Video last December and a second ...

Back in 1991 Jacques Rivette made a film entitled La belle noiseuse in which Michel Piccoli took the role of a painter working with a nude model (Emmanuelle Béart). It was a detailed study of what it ...

With her debut feature, the Slovenian director Urška Djukić explores the interior sexual world of a 16-year-old virgin. This debut feature by the Slovenian director Urška Djukić has made quite an ...

This film about Victoria Wood, who had become one of Britain's national treasures before dying at the early age of sixty-two in 2016, is ably made and uses a standard but popular format frequently ...