Craig McLean

London Film Festival: Actor Ruaridh Mollica and director Mikko Mäkelä discuss this brilliant drama about a young novelist who moonlights as a sex worker – mining the latter to write his stories.

London Film Festival: Blitz is this year’s Opening Night Gala. Its director and young stars discuss presenting a new, diverse view of life in bomb-shattered London.

Lights down, curtains up: presenting our six picks for this year’s cinematic feast, from Luca Guadagnino's Queer to Palme D’Or winner Anora.

Helping make superhero films fun again, wearing killer get-ups, shedding skin – literally – to get in character… All in a day’s work for the shape-shifting actor.

The Californian actor is the star of terrifying horror Longlegs, a decade after she was the star of another terrifying horror, It Follows. Here’s how pro kiteboarding’s loss was fright night’s gain...

As frontman of his band Villanelle, the young musician has entered the family business.

The Night Shyamalan family’s business is horror – and business is good. This summer, two twenty-something members of the filmmaking clan make their big-screen debuts. First up, director Ishana and her Ireland-set scary-tale The Watched…

The Stranger Things actor talks her upcoming third album, Chaos Angel, and the final season of the show that made her a star.

Jake Chessum and James Dimmock, FACE photography legends, lift the lid on unpublished images of some of pop culture’s biggest stars – and back then, they didn’t even know just how big they’d get. Now you can get your hands on them.

The actor tells us all about getting his kit off for new TV show Mary & George, playing a hot jock in Bottoms and his upcoming film with Anne Hathaway.

The 27-year-old Londoner stars in Netflix's adaptation of David Nicholl’s best-selling novel, One Day: a decades-spanning story of love, sex and friendship.

Aniefiok Ekpoudom on the making of Dave – voice of a generation and creator of the defining British rap album of its time – taken from his new book Where We Come From.

Exclusive: In Netflix sci-fi thriller The Kitchen, Wright swaps the commentary box for the DJ booth. He and co-director Kibwe Tavares chat community, gentrification, the Premier League and Gary Lineker.

Femme (noun): “an LGBTQ+ person whose gender expression is considered to be feminine”. Femme (film): a brilliant, brutal British story of a drag queen’s thirst for revenge. We speak to stars Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George Mackay.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell breaks down the cultural touchstones that helped shape her worldview and create her killer second film.

And that’s a wrap. As the curtain closes on this year’s LFF, here are the homegrown highlights to watch out for in cinemas in the coming months.

Where once there was a hulking great IKEA in North London, now there’s a cutting-edge palace for electronic music with bars as far as the eye can see. But before the hard seltzer, here’s a hard hat tour…

Saltburn, the writer-director’s second film, is a wicked satire of sex and class starring Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi. As it launches the London Film Festival, Fennell spills the Earl Grey.

Ahead of next week’s Opening Night Gala, here are the six films and shows that have us most excited.

The Turner Prize-winning artist who inflated Stonehenge gives his take on where we are, where we’ve been, where we’re headed – and the British dish that trumps the rest.

He broke out as Normal People’s bad guy. Now he’s playing Samuel Beckett and a WWII hero – and embracing a messy new hobby courtesy of Austin Butler.