All articles by Lou Thomas

50 years of Get Carter: a new interview with director Mike Hodges

Scenes from the world in 2020: Kevin Macdonald on his new Life in a Day project

The murky world of video nasties: Prano Bailey-Bond on her gruesome retro-horror Censor

British films at Sundance 2021: What to watch out for

Soul’s afterlife body-swap comedy shows Pixar still has it

Kristen Wiig: 6 essential performances

6 films to see to get ready for Tenet

On the phone to Werner Herzog: ‘A deep existential solitude is coming at us’

BFI Recommends: Ozark

Riz Ahmed on Mogul Mowgli: ‘It was like a Curb Your Enthusiasm moment put through a Muslim filter’

Nine discoveries from the 2020 Berlinale

No Hard Feelings director Faraz Shariat: ‘Racism is a tool that structures our entire society’

Onward review: Pixar’s fantasy quest uncovers brotherly love

British films at the Berlin Film Festival 2020: What to look out for

From Kubrick to Mad Max: Eight films that influenced Birds of Prey

Daniel Isn’t Real review: an enjoyably edgy psychological horror

The Report director Scott Z. Burns: ‘In the paranoia and fear after 9/11, we lost the plot’

Ken Loach on Sorry We Missed You: ‘I want to be part of the world, not somehow locked away’

The Last Black Man in San Francisco: Jimmie Fails on his gentrification drama

Willem Dafoe on The Lighthouse: ‘It’s a good discipline to know how to be by yourself’

It Chapter Two review: a pungently nostalgic pop-horror epic

Joanna Hogg on The Souvenir: six visual influences

Katie Puckrik on The Word: ‘The show is responsible for the 90s’

90 great films of the 1990s

Vita & Virginia: ‘Just because something is set in 1928, it doesn’t need to feel like it was made then’

The Flood director Anthony Woodley: ‘Refugees are entrepreneurs – they’re trying for a better life’

X-Men: Dark Phoenix: five influences on the final mutant blockbuster

Shooting Stanley Kubrick: how we took photos of the great director