Alasdair Bayman

As the latest instalment of Fantastic Beasts arrives in cinemas, Alasdair Bayman assesses the British actor’s wide-ranging career, picking out a handful of his most under-the-radar turns.

We explore how Edgar Wright's latest feature is indebted to the Italian-filmmaking tradition of giallo in theme and style.

Christos Nikou’s extraordinary journey into what has become an all-too-believable alternate reality isn’t so much a vision of a world afflicted with a strange pandemic than a wryly observed manifesto for existence when such an occurrence takes place, suggests Alasdair Bayman.