Dir: Kote Mikaberidze | Silent Drama 1929 Reviewed by Richard Chatten The vagaries of film preservation have been so capricious that the unexpected rediscovery of less than a hundred hitherto obscure silents...

Dir: F.W. Murnau | Cast: Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan | Drama Reviewed by Richard Chatten For his Hollywood debut, 'Sunrise' (1927), F.W.Murnau famously had built an enormous set depicting a city...

Dir: Alfred Hitchcock | Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant , Claude Rains | US Thriller reviewed by Richard Chatten By the he made 'Notorious' Hitchcock had comfortably settled into the Hollywood scene...

2026 kicks off with several ground-breaking releases all coming to the BFi IMAX early next year   THE BRIDE! (Maggie Gyllenhaal, 2026)  IMAX with Laser  Director Maggie Gyllenhaal returns with this modern retelling of Mary Shelly's gothic...

Dir.: Willy Rozier; Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Francois Calve, Howard Vernon; France 1952, 76 min. Also known in the UK/US under the title The Girl in the Bikini, this was the second...

Dir: Monta Bell | Norma Shearer Malcolm McGregor, George K Arthur | US Silent Drama 1925 Reviewed by Richard Chatten A good example of the cinema of the 1920s habit of...

Dir/Writer| Orson Welles Cast: Orson Wells, Paul Van Eyck, Michael Redgrave | US 93’ By Richard Chatten “Now there's a flawed masterpiece!!" barked Orson Welles when reminded of this film by Alan...

  Dir: Joseph H.Lewis | Noir Thriller | US | Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Helen  Walker, Jean Wallace “I live in a maze, Mr. Diamond, a strange, blind and backward maze. All...

Dir: Paul Feig | Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, Brandon Sklenar | US 2025 The Housemaid is a shamelessly raunchy thriller that follows much the same path as the usual ‘home-help’...