Kaleem Aftab

The historic drama based on the poignant life story of Maharaja Duleep Singh is due for international release on July 21.

Displacement and migration are recurring themes at the Cannes Film Festival, as filmmakers respond to the refugee crisis.

Oren Moverman is the third director to transform Herman Koch's bestselling book into a morally-dark thriller.

The fact is The Promise is simply too dull to succeed as propaganda, unless the intention is to dissuade people from watching period dramas.

The film is based on a book of the same name, a biography of Percy Fawcett by New York writer David Grann.

Australian filmmaker Kitty Green says Casting JonBenet is about memory and trying to come to terms with a collective trauma.

Ghost in the Shell underperformed at the North American box-office when it was released last month – and the casting of Scarlett Johansson in the lead role and the controversy it generated – was highlighted as one of the reasons for its failure.

By leaving the more serious subject matter in the background in favour of a light--hearted and predictable romcom, the film loses much of its power, resonance and comedic effectiveness.

Set in London during the Second World War, the film tells the story of Catrin Cole, an advertising copywriter tasked by the Ministry of Information to write dialogue for propaganda films aimed at boosting national morale and to encourage America to join the war effort against the Nazis.

The film is somewhat esoteric – but Herzog has always been at his best in movies where the environment and humanity clash or intertwine.

Actor Gael García Bernal – whose latest film, Salt and Fire, focuses on the disastrous ecological consequences of abusing the environment – tells us the chance to work with veteran director Werner Herzog was a dream come true.

Get Out has managed to capture the zeitgeist in the same way 1968’s Night of the Living Dead resonated with audiences after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Adam Curtis, who is to speak at the upcoming Arab Film Festival in London, says the West has negative perceptions about the Arab world, and explains why he uses film to bring about social change.

It features terrorism, with Paris being bombed at multiple locations, but here the terrorists are not clichéd characters but alienated youth

He tells us why he had to boycott the latest Academy Awards, and about working with Penelope Cruz and Javier Barden in a new Spanish family film