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Elizabeth Taylor’s 20 best performances – ranked!

As Cleopatra turns 60, and its star’s romance with Richard Burton becomes the subject of a new play at the National, we take a trip down the Queen of the Nile’s finest films

Anne Billson

01, Jun, 2023 @11:00 AM

From Hugo to Chucky and Annabelle – who is the scariest doll of them all?

From the creepy ventriloquist’s doll in Dead of Night, to M3gan and The Boy, via The Conjuring and Child’s Play, dolls have made a consistently chilling contribution to the horror genre

Anne Billson

20, Apr, 2023 @3:07 PM

Faye Dunaway’s 10 best performances – ranked!

Ahead of the Oscar-winning actor’s 82nd birthday this weekend, we mark her finest moments, from camp histrionics to the most archetypal of femmes fatales

Anne Billson

12, Jan, 2023 @12:00 PM

Shapeshifting witches, hallucinogenic fog and sinister forests: Sitges film festival has it all

With snowbound dystopia in Polaris, true crime drama The Stranger and lockdown terrors in The Harbinger, Catalonia’s annual fantasy and horror show keeps the shocks coming

Anne Billson

19, Oct, 2022 @1:08 PM

Movies about movies – ranked!

Odes to cinema from Sam Mendes, Steven Spielberg and Damien Chazelle will jostle for Oscar glory next year – until then, here are 20 of the best films about film-making well worth dimming the lights for

Anne Billson

15, Sep, 2022 @12:05 PM

Julia Roberts’s 20 best films – ranked!

Ahead of the release of Ticket to Paradise, a romcom co-starring George Clooney, we rate the Pretty Woman’s finest work, from Steel Magnolias to My Best Friend’s Wedding

Anne Billson

01, Sep, 2022 @11:00 AM

Kristen Stewart’s 20 best performances – ranked!

From Spencer to Still Alice, and now David Cronenberg’s bonkers new horror sci-fi Crimes of the Future, we rate the Twilight star’s finest work

Anne Billson

18, Aug, 2022 @11:00 AM

Volcano films – ranked!

Missing the heatwave? With the release of Sara Dosa’s hotly tipped new documentary Fire of Love, we round up the most epic, exploding-mountain movies ever made

Anne Billson

21, Jul, 2022 @11:00 AM

Paul Verhoeven’s 10 best films – ranked!

With the re-release of RoboCop – the director’s chillingly prescient sci-fi gorefest – we look back at his Hollywood debut and the rest of his best films

Anne Billson

12, May, 2022 @12:18 PM

You’ve been reframed: how playing with split-screen and aspect ratio went mainstream

Gaspar Noé’s new film opens with a split-screen sequence, incorporating an aspect-ratio switch. Such experimental format tweaking has a long history, so why is it all the rage again?

Anne Billson

29, Apr, 2022 @8:00 AM

Count Draculas on film – ranked!

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Nosferatu, we run the rule over the stars who have played the virgin-crazed, bloodsucking aristocrat

Anne Billson

03, Mar, 2022 @12:00 PM

Audrey Hepburn’s 20 greatest films – ranked!

On the 65th anniversary of Funny Face, we run down the Givenchy girl’s best moments – from upstaging her (usually much older) leading men to literally representing heaven in a dazzling white cable-knit

Anne Billson

17, Feb, 2022 @12:00 PM