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.
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The angry Irish girl – the Sinéad of the savage crop and mouth to match – is a thing of the past. At 22, Sinéad is discovering the joys of marriage, motherhood and, not least, mysticism. You can hear this in the softer, more spiritual songs written for her new LP. It is, says Sinéad, like being visited by the Holy Ghost…
Mike Skinner has made a movie, the whole thing written, directed, filmed, funded and led by the man on the mic. It only took him 10 years.
Bringing Black British music culture to screen in a rollercoaster eight-part BBC/Netflix drama – with a little help from Ghetts and Ray BLK.
He’s a 69-year-old retired businessman and debut recording artist who’s made the chillest album of the year. And all with a little help from his daughter Lana. Do put your father on the stage, Ms Del Rey…
It’s the play that’s gone right: a theatrical phenomenon pulling in young audiences via a chilling story and clever actor choices like Cheryl and Lily Allen. As a UK tour looms, its creator and latest cast explain why audience participation – screams, wine spills, all of it – are welcome.
Arrested aged 25, whistleblower Reality Winner received the longest ever sentence for releasing intelligence to the media. Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney plays her in a stunning new film. Here, in her own words, is Winner’s story.
The Succession “winner” tells us all about Leeds United, red carpet drag and Lukas Matsson's fashion choices.
As the groundbreaking drama anoints its ultimate successor, we quiz Lupe on spin-offs, Succession sleepovers and closing the door on the role of a lifetime. “It’s like getting over a big heartbreak.”
First up: a Blur cover story from May 1994, in honour of the legendary band announcing their first album in eight years, The Ballad of Darren. You don't wanna miss this...
As Kaytranada and Aminé drop their joint album Kaytraminé, THE FACE team picks out some of our favourite collab albums of all time.
Call Sheet: The actor stars in the house’s new campaign, photographed by Hedi Slimane. And he didn’t injure anyone on the shoot – unlike on True History of the Kelly Gang…
In an exclusive extract from her brilliant new memoir about battling breast cancer, the legendary FACE writer asks: how do you wear mascara if you’ve lost your eyelashes?
Call Sheet: in thrilling, chilling Cronenberg remake Dead Ringers, the Oscar-winner plays identical siblings on a mission to right the wrongs of childbirth. And have a bloody – very bloody – good time while doing so.
A24’s Talk to Me is already being touted as the supernatural thriller of the summer. To get you in the mood, we’ve ranked the studio’s most bone-chilling prestige horrors. Click through, if you dare…
