Serial Killers
Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode take a look at the screen's morbid fascination with the serial killer genre - and its dicey ethics. Mark star...
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Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode guide us through the expanding universe of the moving image revealing fascinating links and hidden gems from cinema and TV to streaming and beyond.
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20 of 134 episodesBilly Wilder
The writer-director Billy Wilder was responsible for some of the most unforgettable stories in cinema history, from Double Indemnity and Sun...
Young People In Care
Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode delve into the ubiquity of the care-experienced person (someone fostered, adopted, or in a children's home) o...
Graphic Novels
Ellen and Mark investigate the relationship between graphic novels and film, asking if the graphic novel is an inherently cinematic artform....
Leading Men
As movie megastar Tom Cruise returns to our screens, and the world awaits the revelation of the next James Bond, Ellen E Jones and Mark Kerm...
Nature
Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode consider the role of natural history film and TV today. Ellen speaks to the wildlife cinematographer, Sophie...
Male Friendship
From Butch and Sundance to Maverick and Goose, Woody and Buzz to Frodo and Sam, male friendships have long been at the heart of many of our...
Aliens
Screenshot makes contact with film and TV’s enduring fascination with UFOs and extraterrestrial life, from the Cold War paranoia of Invasion...
24 Hour Movies
On the 40th anniversary of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode look at films that confine their action to a single day...
The Swinging Sixties
Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode revisit the decade that transformed Britain’s image around the world, focusing on how film and TV captured -...
Hospital Dramas
As the world’s longest-running prime time TV medical drama Casualty turns 40, Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode look at the small screen’s long...
Fairy Tales
From Disney classics such as Cinderella and Snow White, to the fantastical The Red Shoes, darker tales from European cinema like Bluebeard o...
Spoofs
The anarchic comedian, writer and filmmaker Mel Brooks turns 100 years old this June. Across a career spanning more than seven decades, Broo...
Amélie
Screenshot marks the 25th anniversary of the whimsical romantic comedy about a shy Parisian waitress trying very hard to improve the lives o...
Teachers
Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode head back to class to learn how teachers have been depicted on screen, from Goodbye, Mr Chips to Adolescence....
Nudity
Screenshot lays bare the long, often controversial history of nakedness in film and TV, from shocking and titillating moments, to those that...
Boxing
Ellen and Mark step into the ring to explore cinema's most heavyweight genre, fifty years on from Sylvester Stallone's smash-hit film Rocky....
Telephones
Alexander Graham Bell made the first ever telephone call 150 years ago this spring. That single moment of connection would transform communi...
Fishing
Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode swap film reels for fishing reels, to ponder why fishing onscreen has got us hooked. The net is cast wide to...
Yorkshire
As a new adaptation of Emily Bronte's Yorkshire-set novel Wuthering Heights hits cinemas, Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode look at how the are...