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How did an extra-terrestrial species come to dominate planet Earth’s food chain so suddenly? This prequel takes us back to the day of the invasion and is bigger in every way.
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Once a decade the magazine asks critics to select the best films ever made. Explore the results in a special edition.
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5 things to watch this weekend – 28 to 30 June
The Bear is back, but the menu also includes Tchaikovsky, Cary Grant and some Mediterranean pearls. What are you watching this weekend?
By Sam Wigley
“VHS tapes from the 1990s opened the door to another world”: Lina Soualem on her Palestinian family memoir Bye Bye Tiberias
By Elhum Shakerifar
BFI National Archive silent film curator Bryony Dixon honoured at Bologna film festival for services to safeguarding cinema heritage
BFI National Archive silent film curator Bryony Dixon honoured at Bologna film festival for services to safeguarding cinema heritageBye Bye Tiberias: tender family archive documentary illuminates the larger history of Palestinian displacement
By Rachel Pronger
10 great films about television
By Matthew Thrift
“There is no single African gaze”: how our Pan-African film season came together
By Kevin Le Gendre
LAIKA: Frame x Frame, a free exhibition at BFI Southbank, 12 August to 1 October 2024
LAIKA: Frame x Frame, a free exhibition at BFI Southbank, 12 August to 1 October 2024Events
The stars of a new ITV drama about cancel culture join writer Steven Moffat, director Ben Palmer and executive producer Sue Vertue to talk about their four-part series Douglas Is Cancelled.
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