Expensive Shit

It’s a sweet day for two drug dealers. Heading out to parties, selling to insanely posh folk and eating patties, these are the little things that make people more than just friends.

Joe’s mother cannot satisfy his ravenous hunger or the judgement of those around them. Will their inability to bond finally be overcome in this dark and depraved gorefest?

This surreal fable, a colourful animation set deep in a forest and evoking a bleak and terrifying landscape, sees a hunter encounter a strange creature he cannot kill.

The swirling timeline and strong central performance conveys problems in supressing a traumatic event that is often so hard to talk about.

Carl is king of the court. But today he's very distracted. This highly amusing comedy playfully combines homoerotic vibes with toxic masculinity on a badminton court.

This rewarding and thoughtful depiction of an ever-relevant issue finds a young black girl about to leave boarding school and encouraged to conform to white beauty standards for a job in the City.

The director of a documentary about British funk pioneers Cymande joins the band at BFI Southbank to talk about the film.

Plotting world domination, Devil Doctor Fu-Manchu steals plans for a new aero-torpedo in this earliest surviving thrill-a-minute serial instalment.

Filmmakers Jane Giles and Ali Catterall discuss their documentary Scala!!!, revisiting the legendary and inspirational cinema venue and some of the most notorious films that screened there.

Long thought lost, this Powell-directed promotional short for a veteran’s charity was only rediscovered in 2003.

A poignant, stirring letter from a recently deceased pilot to his mother is read by John Gielgud.

Former Bristol Poet Laureate, Miles Chambers reads a poem specially commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the NHS.