Samuel Wigley
BFI
United Kingdom
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Past articles by Samuel:
100 great films streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime – 2023 edition
Beat the algorithms with our updated list of essential deeper cuts available to watch on Netflix UK and Amazon Prime Video. → Read More
5 things to watch this weekend – 3 to 5 February
Audrey Hepburn rides a Vespa into film history, while a riveting French courtroom drama puts matricide on trial. → Read More
5 things to watch this weekend – 13 to 15 January
Cate Blanchett grapples with Mahler and cancel culture, while Mark Jenkin disturbs uncanny memories of folk horror in 16mm. → Read More
5 things to watch this weekend – 6 to 8 January
If you go down in the woods today, you’re sure of a big surmise... → Read More
5 things to watch this weekend – 16 to 18 December
Silent miracles, a stunning trilogy and a return to the blue planet. What are you watching this weekend? → Read More
5 things to watch this weekend – 2 to 4 December
Toxic events, terrifying experiments and the new greatest film of all time. What are you watching this weekend? → Read More
10 great European Christmas films
With Ingmar Bergman’s festive family drama Fanny and Alexander returning to cinemas, we recommend 10 more Christmas classics from the continent. → Read More
Attack of the zeros and ones: the early years of digital cinema, as told by David Lynch, Miranda July, Michael Mann and more
Twenty years after the release of the world’s first digitally shot blockbuster, George Lucas’s Attack of the Clones, Sam Wigley talks to the early adopters who delighted in experimenting with a medium that would reinvent the industry. → Read More
5 things to watch this weekend – 18 to 20 November
Tales of myth, legend and sunny package holidays – what are you watching this weekend? → Read More
5 things to watch this weekend – 11 to 13 November
Country-house intrigue, hall-of-mirrors metafiction and an animated quest – what are you watching this weekend? → Read More
5 things to watch this weekend – 4 to 6 November
Time to live, time to love, time to watch two 1997 classics. What are you watching this weekend? → Read More
5 things to watch this weekend – 21 to 23 September
Banshees, poltergeists, rippers – it’s dangerous out there. What are you watching this weekend? → Read More
5 things to watch this weekend – 30 September to 2 October
Sonic cooking, Finnish love life, and the ‘third greatest Japanese film’. What are you watching this weekend? → Read More
5 things to watch this weekend – 23 to 25 September
Secrets kept, secrets shared, and a chance to bare all. What are you watching this weekend? → Read More
5 things to watch this weekend – 2 to 4 September
Go west. Reconnect with your roots. Phone home. What are you watching this weekend? → Read More
5 things to watch this weekend – 5 to 7 August
Rude boys, drag queens and round-the-world voyagers. What are you watching this weekend? → Read More
5 things to watch this weekend – 29 to 31 July
Road movies. Rude movies. Eruptions of all kinds. What are you watching this weekend? → Read More
5 things to watch this weekend – 22 to 24 July
The prisons we make. And how to break for freedom. What are you watching this weekend? → Read More
5 things to watch this weekend – 15 to 17 July
Forgotten horror, techno euphoria and a hospital whodunnit. What are you watching this weekend? → Read More
5 things to watch this weekend – 8 to 10 July
Robots, alligators and fears of the future – what are you watching this weekend? → Read More