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Movies And TV
Coolest Person in the Room: Malcolm Todd
Popularity is relative, especially in the digital age. For our series, Coolest Person...
“A small masterpiece of cinematic storytelling”: Chicken...
In his review of Nick Park and Peter Lord’s Chicken Run, Kim Newman celebrated Aardman’s...
Inside the Archive #74: Nitrate Screenings, a Preservation...
This month, delve into the 2026 Nitrate Picture Show, discover more about a FIAT-IFTA...
Isabel Davis appointed as director of BFI National Lottery...
Isabel Davis will lead the BFI’s £20 million annual Filmmaking Funds and its strategic...
10 great East German films
Between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the weird and wonderful...
Bugsy Malone at 50: original drawings and cartoons from...
Fifty years after the release of Bugsy Malone, we share the illustrations with which...
Simon Field obituary: adventurous British film programmer,...
With influential posts leading the ICA and the Rotterdam International Film Festival,...
MissMa’amShe Owns The Mall
Brooklyn icon and viral sensation MissMa’amShe was performing “I Feel So Free” when...
Gods and monsters: Spirited Away reviewed in 2003
Twenty-five years ago, Hayao Miyazaki’s surreal animated fairytale Spirited Away...
Bryan Forbes at 100: remembering the Whistle down the Wind...
From 1960s British classics such as Whistle down the Wind and Seance on a Wet Afternoon...
BTS, Madonna and Shakira's World Cup Final Halftime Show...
History was made during Spain's World Cup Final victory over Argentina for more...
‘The Real Housewives of Orange County’ Whoop It up in Hell
This is So Chic, Very Chic, PAPER’s examination of Bravo’s sprawling cohort of fashion...
Gio Ramos Isn’t Afraid to Take Up Space
For model and social star Giovanna “Gio” Ramos, every day is different. She might...
All-out puppet attack! The monster puppetry in Ishiro Honda’s...
From Godzilla to Ghidorah, the giant monster movies of Ishiro Honda made creative...
PAPER Spent Two Weekends Chasing the World Cup With Rauw...
Giddy is not even the right word to describe the last two weekends of World Cup...
Mare’s Nest: Ben Rivers has produced his most hopeful film...
Ben Rivers' Mare's Nest stars Moon Guo Barker as a young wanderer moving through...
The misfits of Zwigoff: a visit to the set of Ghost World
With Ghost World, Terry 'Crumb' Zwigoff, comics auteur Daniel Clowes and Thora Birch...
Take It or Leave It, starring Madness, coming back to cinemas...
A world premiere of the restoration including a Q&A with band members will take...
10 great Greek myth adaptations
As Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey arrives in cinemas, we revisit 10 films that...
“It’s never quite brutal enough for Chris”: The Odyssey...
Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway and fellow cast members get to the heart of their blockbuster...
“I use musical theory to shoot an action sequence”: an...
John Woo set a new high bar for action cinema in the 1980s and 90s, leaving Hollywood...
How Sam Neill’s 1990s documentary Cinema of Unease reckoned...
Beloved for his roles in films from Dead Calm to Jurassic Park, Sam Neill – who...
We Played Celebrity 'I Spy' at the 2026 FIFA World Cup
Sunrise pilates and pickleball have been replaced with soccer watch parties as the...
Gia Foretia creates sustainable plan for Black Indie film...
Gia Foretia built a blueprint Black filmmakers can follow.
How Megan Thee Stallion's 'Megalations' Became the Hottie...
On April 15, 2026, Megan Thee Stallion posted a story on Instagram that sent the...
Chronically online criticism: how we’re archiving the video...
Pithy, playful, provocative – video essays have emerged as a major form of cultural...
Claude Chabrol celebrated with BFI Southbank season, re-release...
Our season of Chabrol’s cool, deliciously wicked thrillers runs at BFI Southbank...
Dua Lipa, Charli xcx and the Romance of the City Hall Fling
We woke up on May 31 to the news that Dua Lipa and Callum Turner got married in...
‘The Real Housewives of Orange County’ Are Eternal, For...
This is So Chic, Very Chic, PAPER’s examination of Bravo’s sprawling cohort of fashion...
“He rendered the foreign familiar without ever stripping...
Filmmakers from Bong Joon Ho to John Woo pay tribute to the critic, curator and...
Ozuna y el Arte de Reinventar a su Yo de Antes
Dos guitarras, un amplificador y una voz melódica. El ensayo se ejecutaba como preparativo...
The Secret Gay Agenda in the Art World? Backgammon
It's hard to say who started the Lesbian Bisexual Backgammon League. Part social...
What's Up With the Internet's Ballet Flat Fixation?
The current craze of ballet flats in women’s fashion has been deemed a revival....
What’s With the Internet’s Ballet Flat Fascination?
The current craze of ballet flats in women’s fashion has been deemed a revival....
10 great Sri Lankan films
As Sumitra Peries’s remarkable 1978 coming-of-age drama The Girls returns in a new...
“Estamos en Familia”: el último partido de México en el...
Hay una razón por la que los mexicanos te dicen “esta es tu casa” cuando los visitas....
In Seoul, Queer Art Steps Into the Light
In New York, it’s easy to take queer art shows for granted. When writing my PAPER...
John Waters on restoring Hairspray and Desperate Living:...
His biggest popular success and one of his darkest comedies are arriving in the...
Tony Rayns (1948 to 2026)
The British critic and programmer was a world renowned expert in East Asian cinema,...
'The Real Housewives of Rhode Island' Are Under Investigation
This is So Chic, Very Chic, PAPER’s examination of Bravo’s sprawling cohort of fashion...
How to train a kestrel: the original notes from the making...
These production notes reveal how Ken Loach’s commitment to authenticity connected...
Three weeks, two lovers, one shelved film: Vivien Leigh...
Made just before Vivien Leigh took the role of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the...
Confessions II, As Told By Madonna’s Getty Archive
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless...
The Last One for the Road: a leisurely Beckettian bender...
The Italian director Francesco Sossai’s boozy road movie avoids grand epiphanies,...
How Many Episodes Are In ‘Dutton Ranch’ Season 1?
Is this the end of Dutton Ranch Season 1? Or is there another episode?
Emma D’Arcy Says Rhaenyra’s Greatest Strength in ‘House...
For two seasons of House of the Dragon, Rhaenyra Targaryen has wrestled with the...
Fear and Misbehaving at The Vanderpump Hotel
“Let’s get Neff-ed up!” screams the union bricklayer next to me at Gigolo, the swanky...
10 great films about dinner parties
Drama is served... As Olivia Wilde’s The Invite arrives in cinemas, we celebrate...
'Minions & Monsters' Director Pierre Coffin Has Seen the...
Believe it or not, there was an Internet before the Minions. When we first met the...
God’s lonely man: Amy Taubin on Taxi Driver
Vietnam, gunplay, race and bloodletting are all part of the Taxi Driver myth, but...
UK Global Screen Fund announces latest international distribution...
Over £700,000 allocated to support 25 projects with prints and advertising and festival...
Bebe Rexha Burns Down the Asylum
“You’re going to gag,” Bebe Rexha says, squinting in the glare of late afternoon...
“Films very rarely do this”: the Nirvanna the Band duo...
Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol are the comedian-filmmakers behind hit web series...
Our statement on the Government’s consultation into the...
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced a 12-week public...
The LELO INA Thrust Pulses with a New Rhythm
What do you do with a classic? You don’t disregard it, you improve it. Sometimes,...
BFI Player’s July 2026 line-up
Otherworldly visitors meet radical homegrown visions in a July line-up spanning...
The back room from Dead of Night: the production design...
In a section of Ealing’s classic anthology horror Dead of Night, children hide in...
Supergirl: Milly Alcock carries this movie on her cape
Director Craig Gillespie’s addition to the DC Universe remains faithful to its comic...
Steve Toussaint Explains How Corlys Velaryon Embraces Fatherhood...
Corlys Velaryon has always been one of the most calculating figures in House of...
PAPER Crashed LadyLand Festival 2026
Over the weekend, PAPER joined an anything-but-tame Pride celebration, crashing...
The Next Generation is Exploding With Dynamic Music Duos
Power pairings are no novel concept in music. Nor are they in electronic music....
BFI Flare: through the years
In its 40th anniversary year, explore the rich legacy of the ever-evolving BFI Flare:...
Elizabeth Yu Pre-Gamed Her 'Avatar: The Last Airbender'...
This is PAPER Diaries, an unfiltered look into the thoughts and lives of creative...
Finest hours: Robert Walker as the charm-school sociopath...
As the friendly psycho who proposes a murder swap in Strangers on a Train, Robert...
The Furious: familiar revenge cinema gets an exuberant...
The award-winning action choreographer Tanigaki Kenji‘s tight revenge thriller pares...
BFI Chair Jay Hunt welcomes six new governors to the BFI...
The new BFI Governors are Tanya Cordrey, Mark Herbert, Ganan Kanagathurai, Hakan...
10 great Canadian debut features
Ahead of the release of Sophy Romvari’s acclaimed Blue Heron, we revisit 10 Canadian...
The Pride Month Art Guide: Five Essential New York Exhibitions
It’s impossible to disentangle New York’s art scene from its queer history. From...
Public encouraged to ‘Cool Off in Culture’ as second heatwave...
Together with Arts Council England and LIVE Green, we’re rolling out UK-wide campaign...
Programme highlights for August 2026: Monica Vitti, the...
This August we’re celebrating Italian movie star Monica Vitti, the craft of puppeteers,...
RIO's New Era Proves Fashion Is Cyclical: And the Future...
There are moments in fashion that remind us why this industry matters beyond the...
At the Second Smirnoff: A Celebration of Ballroom, the...
Dashaun Wesley is doing his best to gentle-parent an excited crowd. “I don’t need...
The monster and the mirror: Black resistance humour in...
Examining a centuries-old tradition of Black resistance humour etched within the...
75 years of The Lavender Hill Mob: how the London locations...
As the beloved Ealing crime comedy turns 75, we track down the exact spots where...
PAPER Made This Cover a Family Affair
John Waters has never wanted to be a gay filmmaker. He has always wanted to be John...