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London film festival 2018

October 2018

  • John C Reilly as Oliver Hardy and Steve Coogan as Stan Laurel.

    Stan & Ollie review – melancholy twilight of comedy gods Laurel and Hardy

  • A still from Joy, a film by Sudabeh Mortezai.

    Trafficking drama Joy wins best film award at London film festival

  • ‘A morass of blood and ambiguous sexual politics’ … Odessa Young in Assassination Nation.

    Assassination Nation review – social media revenge porn

  • Tough to watch … Ella Smith as Liz in Ray & Liz.

    Ray & Liz review – brutal study of a family coming to pieces

  • They Shall Not Grow Old review – Peter Jackson's electrifying journey into the first world war trenches

  • Been So Long review – Michaela Coel tremendous in movie musical

  • Happy New Year, Colin Burstead review – Ben Wheatley contrives a simmering hothouse of misery

  • Sometimes Always Never review – Bill Nighy spellbinding in Scrabble drama

  • Widows review – Steve McQueen's brutal heist thriller delivers the swag

  • Peter Bradshaw's picks of the London film festival

  • London film festival to celebrate women in the industry with starry group photo

  • A lost world made new: Victorian cinema gets the Imax treatment

September 2018

  • Putin's Witnesses documentary still

    London film festival 2018: documentaries to watch out for

    October’s festival brings stories about hiking as bereavement therapy, an early portrait of Putin, and the blighted holiday resort with more staff than guests

August 2018

  • Greta Gerwig

    BFI London film festival: 38% of films directed by women

    Festival unveils programme with gender parity in three of the four competition strands

July 2018

  • L-R: Elizabeth Debicki (back to camera), Cynthia Erivo, Viola Davis (back to camera), and Michelle Rodriguez star in Twentieth Century Fox’s WIDOWS. Photo Credit: Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox.

    Steve McQueen's Widows bags opening slot at London film festival

    International premiere of 12 Years a Slave director’s heist movie, based on 1980s British TV series, is set for October
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