The Papacy has also figured in numerous fictional films, including crime dramas (The Godfather Part III, 1990), thrillers (Angels & Demons, 2009), horrors (The Pope’s Exorcist, 2023) and numerous ...

A tender portrayal of the sexual awakening of a young chorister, Little Trouble Girls will be in cinemas in the UK and Ireland from 29 August.

Musician Emiliana Torrini and filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard tell us about their out-of-the-ordinary musical odyssey into a hidden life brimming with travel, passion and adventure.

Celebrity resentments and insecurities are portrayed with unusual tenderness in this clever Hollywood Hills satire, featuring Elizabeth Reaser, Walton Goggins, and Pedro Pascal.

From The Apartment to her Oscar-winning turn in Terms of Endearment... On her 91st birthday we toast Shirley MacLaine’s resumé of tough cookies and wise-cracking dreamers.

Fifty years after glamrock band Slade surprised everyone with the grittiness of their big-screen fable about the music industry, we spoke to singer Noddy Holder, actor Tom Conti and director Richard ...

On his 82nd birthday, the first of a new series celebrating actors at the peak of their powers looks at Michael Palin’s turn as pig-stealing chiropodist Gilbert Chilvers in A Private Function.

Florence Pugh leads a messy squad of ‘superhero’ misfits as Black Widow’s sister Yelena Belova in a comic book movie that prioritises its characters over spectacle.

April, a bold and expressionistic Georgian film about a doctor who performs secret abortions in her village, has yet to screen in its native country. As the film arrives in UK cinemas, we speak to ...

Twenty years on from its theatrical release, Bullet Boy possesses a contemporary relevance far beyond its tale of Black youths and gun crime, says Dr Clive Nwonka.

The archive has also brought six titles, including original 1975 Jaws print, to the TCM Classic Film Festival.

Before she established herself as a pioneering Swedish auteur, Mai Zetterling worked as a movie star in Britain. But despite star billing alongside the likes of Dirk Bogarde, the experience helped her ...