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Paul Greengrass's Peasants' Revolt epic, The Uprising, is just the latest in a long line of movies depicting an unsuccessful attempt at remaking the nation ...

Debut feature from Ben Sottak provides outlandish Halloween-based scares, with Milly Shapiro superb as the naive yet resilient home-defender, Pumpkin ...

The latest in our series of writers explaining their go-to comfort films is a tribute to Darren Aronofsky's dark and unusually satisfying ballet nightmare ...

Using archive material of destroyed houses, terrorised children and dead bodies, Kamal Aljafari adds humanity to the reels by overlaying poems by Palestinian authors ...

Set in a dystopian private academy rife with surveillance and cut-throat competition, Kiwi Chow's gripping drama cements his status as an important film-maker ...

The makers of Coraline return with their distinctive animation style in a magical tale of a secret world of strange beasts, talking animals and evil governesses ...

Sam Rockwell voices the gumshoe who becomes embroiled with Scarlett Johansson's femme fatale in this big-hearted and beautifully designed fantasy spectacular ...

Leonard Peltier was imprisoned for 49 years before his sentence was commuted. A new Netflix documentary exposes the 'corrupt' system that allowed it to happen ...

New York film festival: the director has made a fascinating and troubling companion piece to her Netflix documentary 13th, which takes a fiery look at American injustice ...

Jasmine Jobson goes the distance as the British-Somalian boxer battling pain from her past and her family's disapproval in a heavyweight, tick-the-boxes production ...