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Ancient ancestors of Wallace, Gromit and Morph abound in this trick film filled with malleable magic. Walter Booth made a number of films that began to explore the potential of stop-motion to bring ...

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Grace is a hybrid. At work she’s a diluted, no-worries-if-not girly. At home she’s strong, defiant and empowered, particularly when muttering fantasy comebacks into her pillow at 4am. As Grace ...

Stop! Look! Listen! For decades public information films have been educating, persuading and above all warning us of hidden dangers.

The life of a traditional Georgian dancer is intense and demanding. And in this deeply conservative society, the dance tradition is held up as a sacredly patriotic and hyper-masculine activity. This ...

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One of Waters’ most notorious films is Pink Flamingos (1972), a film which legendary critic Roger Ebert famously offered zero stars. With scenes involving chicken sex, a singing orifice and the ...

Queen Victoria's long reign famously saw extraordinary advances: in industry, transport, science, culture... But one vital innovation is too often missed: the moving image, the last great invention of ...

Richard Ayoade’s follows his quirky comedy Submarine with something altogether more sinister and stylised. Jesse Eisenberg excels in a dual-role as a timid office clerk working in an ominous corporate ...

Ava, a classroom assistant, and Ali, a landlord and failed DJ, are brought together by a series of chance encounters in their local community in Bradford. Despite each having a close-knit group of ...

A brilliant and refreshing story of UK post-punk dyke culture, told by those who lived it, in all their ass-kicking, leather-wearing glory. The film follows a tight-knit group of friends who met at ...