For nine months in the late 1960s, the Pritchard family came under attack from reportedly supernatural forces at 30 East Drive, Pontefract, Yorkshire. Objects were thrown, kids were hauled up stairs, there was banging so loud it could be heard outside in the street. Now, writer-director Pat Holden has drawn...

Following her role as Queen Caroline Mathilde in Nikolaj Arcel's acclaimed Danish costume drama A Royal Affair, Alicia Vikander is expected to become Sweden's next big international star. She will soon be seen as Kitty, in Joe Wright's adaptation of Anna Karenina, and as one of the leads in the...

Award-winning filmmaker Emily James's funny, informative and inspirational documentary Just Do It goes behind the scenes of climate activism in Britain to show a side of the issue largely missing from mainstream media. Initially released in cinemas, the film is now available to download/stream, or as a free Creative Commons...

Twenty-one year old Craig Roberts graduated from kids TV to film with a memorable performance as Oliver Tate, an eccentric teenager intent on losing his virginity, in Submarine.

Since then, the young Welshman has not looked back. He is currently appearing in the thriller Red Lights, with Robert De...

Danish cinema doesn't often do costume dramas but the magnificent A Royal Affair - the true story of Queen Caroline's illicit romance with her husband's enlightened German physician, Johann Struensee - could change that. Its writer-director, Nikolaj Arcel (co-writer of the Swedish The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie), talks...

Vidal Sassoon, the man who turned hairdressing into an art form in London in the Swinging Sixties, died on Wednesday, aged 84.

Before he transformed himself into a stylish Bond Street coiffeur and global brand, Sassoon had a very different life.

Born into a poor Jewish family in...

Thirty-nine years after The Wicker Man first sent shivers down the spines of cinemagoers, the film's director, Robin Hardy, 82, again pits Christians against pagans in an adaptation of his 2006 novel, Cowboys for Christ.

Now titled The Wicker Tree, the new film follows a pair of naïve Texan...

Thirty-nine years after The Wicker Man first sent shivers down the spines of cinemagoers, the film's director, Robin Hardy, 82, again pits Christians against pagans in an adaptation of his 2006 novel, Cowboys for Christ.

Now titled The Wicker Tree, the new film follows a pair of naïve Texan...

Danish cinema's not-so-enfant terrible, Lars von Trier, came to Cannes this year trailing Melancholia, a beautifully mounted apocalyptic drama, which, compared to his previous cinematic assault, Antichrist, had all the shock value of a children's tea party.

There was no graphic sex, no horrific close up of clitoral self-mutilation, no...