On his 82nd birthday, the first of a new series celebrating actors at the peak of their powers looks at Michael Palin’s turn as pig-stealing chiropodist Gilbert Chilvers in A Private Function.

As the award-winning A Samurai in Time comes to Blu-ray and digital, we explore highlights of Japanese cinema’s many inspired leaps and loops across time.

Florence Pugh leads a messy squad of ‘superhero’ misfits as Black Widow’s sister Yelena Belova in a comic book movie that prioritises its characters over spectacle.

Twenty years on from its theatrical release, Bullet Boy possesses a contemporary relevance far beyond its tale of Black youths and gun crime, says Dr Clive Nwonka.

Zhao Tao embodies modern alienation as Qiao Qiao, an enigmatic figure drifting through time and space in contemporary China.

Fifty years after glamrock band Slade surprised everyone with the grittiness of their big-screen fable about the music industry, we spoke to singer Noddy Holder, actor Tom Conti and director Richard ...

On what would have been her 96th birthday on 4 May, we retrace Audrey Hepburn's steps in the movie that made her a superstar: William Wyler’s Oscar-winning romance Roman Holiday.

In 1952, the Sight and Sound team had the novel idea of asking critics to name the greatest films of all time. The tradition became decennial, increasing in size and prestige as the decades passed.

There are several versions of the myth of Parthenope. In one, she was a siren, who, heartbroken by her failure to seduce Ulysses, threw herself into the sea. After fishermen recovered her beautiful ...