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A once-lost, now beloved British short that is perhaps not quite the masterpiece that some would claim.

Digging into the shock announcement of this decade’s Sight and Sound Greatest Film poll winner.

Continuing our crime cinema series with an unexpectedly gritty and twisted British B-movie thriller from the 1960s.

The socially-conscious film producer’s uncomfortable take on US gun culture and the rape-revenge movie.

The scariest film of the last decade, apparently – but does Host live up to the claims that it is the horror film we all need for the Covid Age?

Alan Bleasdale’s black comedy is a rare jewel from the worst era of British cinema.

1980 film Raise the Titanic sunk without trace on release, but it far from the unmitigated disaster that many claim.