All articles by Lou Thomas

Sam Raimi on 20 years of the superhero era: “I think other types of movies will rise again”

Visions du Réel 2022: despatches from Lake Geneva’s documentary festival

Incredible But True brings a new level of silliness to the concept of time-travel

Something in the Dirt is a beguiling meta mystery from Benson and Moorhead

Peter Strickland on Flux Gourmet: “Extreme violence doesn’t interest me. It doesn’t really provoke”

UK films at Sundance 2022: what to look out for

Scream: 5 essential moments from the meta slasher series

Boiling Point: Phil Barantini on his one-take restaurant drama

Olivia Colman on Bon Jovi, bad holidays and The Lost Daughter

Belfast: Kenneth Branagh on an autobiographical drama “50 years in the making”

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World directors: “The film industry has a history of sad stories about child actors”

“I love playing the rascal”: William H. Macy looks back at Fargo

10 great American neo-noirs of the 1990s

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

Nine discoveries from the 2020 Berlinale

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

From Kubrick to Mad Max: 8 films that influenced Birds of Prey

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

Joanna Hogg on The Souvenir: 6 visual influences

Diego Maradona review: Asif Kapadia brings us a touch of god