Film & Cinema

The stories and secrets behind BBC television's most-loved show. The official companion to series 1 and 2, as well as the forthcoming Christmas special. The Life and Times of Call...

Cinema was the first, and is arguably still the greatest, of the industrialized art forms that came to dominate the cultural life of the twentieth century. Today, it continues to...

Upon its release, John McTiernan's Die Hard (1988) was met with immense commercial and critical success; breaking the $100 million mark at the box office in its first run, and...

Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award-nominated writer Alex Garland reunite for 28 YEARS LATER, a terrifying new 'auteur horror' story set in the world created by 28 Days...

Robert de Niro and Al Pacino have acted opposite each other only once, in Heat, Michael Mann's operatic 1995 heist thriller. De Niro is Neil McCauley, a skilled professional thief...

Nicholas Ray's 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause is a globally recognised landmark of post-war American cinema. The film follows twenty-four hours in the life of troubled teen Jim Stark...

Pulp Fiction was one of the films that defined American cinema of the 1990s, and remains one of the stand-out movies of its director Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino's style - violent,...

From a council house in Kent to her first home in the Hollywood hills, from being told she was too big to model to becoming an inspiration for curvy girls...

Embark on a voyage through a chronological history of anime that explores both the marquee cinematic touchstones and enduring series that have shaped the medium. The Anime Archives celebrates it...

The first illustrated monograph on writer, journalist, and director Nora Ephron, the visionary behind When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, and You've Got Mail. "A visual celebration of the...

A lively, sharp and thought-provoking exploration of the enduring stereotype of the dangerous single woman in popular culture.From the obsessive 'bunny boiler' of Fatal Attraction to the tabloid frenzy over...

Netflix is the definitive media company of the 21st century. It was among the first to parlay new Internet technologies into a successful business model, and in the process it...

______________________________From Strangelove to Clouseau, Peter Sellers was one of the screen's greatest ever comic actors.Yet his life was more complex and multilayered than most believe.In this gripping, classic biography, Roger...

Discover the genius of Martin Scorsese - one of cinema's greatest storytellers.For over 50 years, Martin Scorsese has been one of cinema's most celebrated directors. From a Catholic kid in...

A special edition of The Last Jedi Junior Novel with illustrative artwork and sprayed edges.The First Order has the Resistance on the run. Things grow ever more desperate for General...

With just eight feature films to date, Sofia Coppola has crafted a distinctive hyper-feminine aesthetic, establishing herself as one of the world's finest directors. From her acclaimed first short film,...

In his own uniquely acid tongue, Paul O Grady traces the hilarious tales of life in Irish Catholic Birkenhead that took him from a virtuous altar-boy ( my first drag...

Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989) is one of the most popular and celebrated examples of the African-American new black film wave. Set during the hottest day of a...

Discover films that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when filmmakers take tradition and rip it up. FilmQuake introduces 50 movies...

Dietrich has been a legend for over 50 years - the embodiment of cool, elegant, erotic glamour. In this book, Walker gives an authoritative account of how that lege nd...

National Book Awards Autobiography of the Year 2013The long-awaited autobiography of one of Britain's best-loved actors.Born the son of a Billingsgate market porter at the height of the Second World...

Stan Lee invented SPIDER-MAN! And IRON MAN! And the HULK! And the X-MEN! And more than 500 other iconic characters! His name has appeared on more than a billion comic...

Bring out the popcorn and settle in for the ultimate countdown of a century of celluloid entertainment.Rediscover your big screen favourites and get acquainted with new recommendations from The Film...

The latest edition of this explosive read exploring every aspect of the 007 story created in full collaboration with Eon Productions From Bond's history to his style and personal tastes,...

"I like anything that is even near show business. I don't feel well unless I'm near it." -Little Edie BealeOne of the strangest and subtlest films ever made, the Maysles...

The original foreign film-its sights and sounds-is available to all, but the viewer is utterly dependent on a translator and an untold number of technicians who produce the graphic text...

This is a collection of stories of over 30 people who lived and died in Hollywood. Many of their deaths were sad or senseless, brought on by the pressures and...

The strategies of the film star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, are studied and questioned in this biography. His image and political position are analyzed and it is suggested that he has seized...

This biography of Marilyn Monroe based on her personal archive of over 35,000 documents - including letters, diaries, billets doux and suicide notes - aims to reveal the truth about...

New York comedian Alvy Singer reflects ruefully upon a failed relationship. When he first met Annie Hall on a tennis date, she was an insecure wallflower in trousers, vest and...

In the mid-1960s, an unknown Italian film director, Sergio Leone, made A Fistful of Dollars, the first in a trilogy of films that came to define the `spaghetti western'. The...

The Irish actor Liam Neeson is expected to become the biggest megastar since Caine and Connery, following the success of films such as "Schindler's List" and "Rob Roy". After a...