Making romcoms modern: plausible obstacles to happiness and a broadening of vision

Stalag 17 followed by Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life is an ideal festive double-bill

Dan Hitchens makes the case for film director Shane Meadows as a genius of Christian art

Carry on, pomp and circumstance and cultural Marxism

Grim, funny glimpses of a Britain in decline

Political thrillers from South America

The digital preservation of thousands of Polish feature films and documentaries is a gift to international film culture

The director of Goodfellas has debased his talent

The recent restoration of Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives shows that the original movie is astonishingly modern

The idea that there are multiple universes and that it might be possible to “‘versejump” is surely one way of explaining the cinematic urge