As the release of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga approaches, we take a look at the enduring Australian film franchise and how Mad Max went from a low-budget Ozploitation classic to resetting the standard for action movies.

Writer/director Ilker Çatak's The Teachers' Lounge presents a microcosm of society from the bustling corridors of a modernist German secondary school. With a central plot surrounding students being suspected of stealing from faculty members, Çatak transforms a soap opera setting into an utterly gripping pressure cooker of a thriller.

FDA YEARBOOK 2024. With a focus on the last year in the UK and Ireland, the yearbook is the comprehensive source of information on the theatrical sector. Now in its 22nd edition, the book is co-written for the fifth consecutive year by FDA Chief Executive Andy Leyshon and our Founder and Chief Consultant Dave Jarmain

Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin's Nyad paints an unflinching portrait of competitive swimmer Diana Nyad. Annette Bening excels as the titular sports monolith, yet we can't take our eyes off best friend and coach Bonnie Stoll, played by Jodie Foster.

Writer/director Emerald Fennell’s sophomore drama Saltburn has been continually sought out by late millennial and Gen Z audiences. So why has this tale of a seemingly working-class outsider, ushered into the wealth of the English upper classes, drawn in the late teens and twenty somethings?

In his latest picture The Killer, director David Fincher examines the meticulous craft of an unnamed hitman played by a newly returned Michael Fassbender. With stories slick with moral ambiguity, why are we so drawn to these contract killers?

The cinema release of Gareth Edwards’s The Creator, marks the arrival of one of the few wholly original sci-fi pictures of recent years. With existing intellectual property dominating the broad end of mainstream film releases, original big budget cinema can be tricky to come by.

Stop Making Sense is back in cinemas 40 years on from its initial 1984 release. Director Jonathan Demme captured New York ‘s art rockers Talking Heads at the absolute apex of their craft. What is it that makes this cinematic and musical powerhouse so appealing?

Celine Song’s Past Lives has finally released in UK and Irish cinemas. Central to the picture’s narrative is inyun - the Korean concept of providence in human relations built up over past lives. Has something akin to inyun been working its magic on film audiences for decades?