Inside Cinema

What’s your favourite guilty pleasure? And why the guilt? A celebration of trashy cinema.

Elizabeth Sankey reviews cinema's complex relationship with wickedly powerful women.

Documentary from Kambole Campbell on Ryan Coogler, director of Black Panther and Creed.

Documentary from Grace Barber-Plentie on trailblazing Moonlight director Barry Jenkins.

Documentary from Corrina Antrobus on groundbreaking film director Ava DuVernay.

Documentary from Ellen E Jones on the zeitgeist-capturing film director Jordan Peele.

Raise a glass to the boozer, a familiar fixture in film that reflects British life.

Leslie Byron Pitt salutes the smug, self-serving supporting characters we love to hate.

Zing Tsjeng examines a Hollywood stereotype of Asian women: the cold, crafty Dragon Lady.

Jessica Kiang deciphers a storytelling technique that's kept viewers guessing since 1950.

Mike Muncer explores the dark, uncanny world of filmmaker David Lynch.

Catherine Bray takes a look at the most dramatic place to set a scene in film: the cinema.

Beth Webb explores how movies can subvert the patriarchal concept of the beauty pageant.

In the movies, a dream holiday can mean anything from a makeover to a murder spree...

Rhianna Dhillon argues that teen movies are perfect for adaptations of classic literature.

Simran Hans turns the camera on the all-access pop-star documentary.

Tim Robey zooms in on a camera technique that has left heads spinning for over 60 years.

How does cinema treat women's lust? Christina Newland takes a close look.

One, two, three, four! Elizabeth Sankey sings the praises of cinema's best bands.

Michael Leader explores how Japanese animators Studio Ghibli find magic in the everyday.

The most romantically-charged moments in films are often those before the kissing starts.

Spoofs, Bond spoofs. We take aim at the subgenre of spies that have parodied 007.

They say you can’t choose family, but the Fast and Furious franchise begs to differ...

Film families, from Aliens to Ratcatcher to Serial Mom, in all their dysfunctional glory.

Inside Cinema salutes cinema’s iconic duos and explores what makes a film friendship.

Get into the groove with Inside Cinema's look at iconic dance scenes in '80s teen movies.

The '90s saw A-list casts baring all in tales of high-concept intrigue... they vanished.

What is both concealed and revealed when characters in films apply make-up?

Bring a brolly, as Inside Cinema explores how films simply don't do light drizzle.

All aboard! Go trainspotting with Inside Cinema for an in-depth survey of trains on film.

Grab your avocado toast as we look at a misunderstood generation’s life on film.

How - and why - the best Christmas movies are far from heart-warming.

The perfect companion to our purr-fect companions: a history of felines on film.

Inside Cinema rifles through the robes, capes and costumes of a galaxy far, far away.

Nikki Bedi and Inside Cinema tour the cutting-edge of socially-conscious Indian cinema.

Inside Cinema trains its magnifying glass on a pratfalling archetype of crime fiction.