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"Bad Boys: Ride or Die" has numerous easter eggs connecting it to previous films, reaffirming themes and revealing retcons. Returning characters like Fletcher and Manny the Butcher add depth to the story and provide continuity. Marcus' wedding speech references past characters like Gabrielle Union's Syd and Karen Alexander's Max Logan.

Bad Boys: Ride or Die is the fourth entry in the series, and features a number of easter eggs and references to previous films in the franchise. Starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence as a pair of Miami Pd detectives who frequently find themselves dealing with veritable armies of criminals and killers, the series has throw a number of allies and enemies their way over the years. This has led to a surprisingly deep bench of minor characters, several of whom are referenced or even briefly appear as members of the Bad Boys: Ride or Die cast.

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The Sheffield DocFest has unveiled its line-up for its 2021 programme that includes the World Premiere of the first instalment of Academy Award winner Steve McQueen’s new series for the BBC, ‘Uprising’.

For the first time, Sheffield DocFest goes nationwide with five premiere screenings showing in up to 16 partner cinemas in cities around the UK, and online, followed by pre-recorded Q&As. It also includes the previously announced Retrospective: Films belong to those who need them – fragments from the history of Black British Cinema.

The celebration of Black British screen culture – curated by guest curators including David Olusoga. Films of all lengths will all be presented as part of the retrospective including titles such as ‘Burning An Illusion’ by Menelik Shabazz, ‘It Ain’t Half Racist’, ‘Mum’ by Stuart Hall, ‘Looking for Langston’ by Isaac Julien, ‘Second Coming’ by Debbie Tucker Green, ‘The Black Safari’ by Colin Luke, ‘Baby Mother...

Cinema Retro has received the following press release:

Cinema Rediscovered | Great films back on big screens

Watershed and partners Independent Cinema Office (Ico), South West Silents and 20th Century Flicks announce the inaugural Cinema Rediscovered (28-31 July 2016) a new major international archive film event taking place in Bristol, UK and surrounding region supported by Film Hub South West & West Midlands, part of the BFI Film Audience Network, awarding funds from the National Lottery.

Taking inspiration from the pioneering Il Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna, Italy, Cinema Rediscovered celebrates cinema going as an event, giving audiences an opportunity to discover or indeed re-discover new digital restorations, film print rarities of early cinema and contemporary classics on the big screen in cinemas including Watershed (Bristol) and Curzon Clevedon Cinema & Arts, one of the oldest continuously-running cinemas in the UK. The South West may not have Bologna’s spectacular Piazza Maggiore or balmy weather,...

Exclusive: The inaugural Cinema Rediscovered festival will host screenings, workshops and the Ico’s Archive Screening Day 2016.

Bristol’s arts venue Watershed is teaming with the Independent Cinema Office (Ico), South West Silents and 20th Century Flicks to launch a new international archive film festival.

Supported by the BFI Film Audience Network’s Film Hub South West & West Midlands, Cinema Rediscovered will run in and around Bristol between July 28-31, 2016.

Taking inspiration from Il Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna, the event will showcase new digital restorations, film print rarities of early cinema and contemporary classics on the big screen.

Programme highlights include the world premiere of the new restoration of British drama The Lion in Winter (1968) ahead of its release later this year through Studiocanal and a presentation of the 4K restoration of Japanese auteur Nagisa Ôshima’s BAFTA-winning English language debut Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983), starring David Bowie.

The Lion in Winter forms the centrepiece of a tribute...

These supermodels seem to be getting better with age! Photographer Peter Lindbergh enlisted six of the most iconic fashionistas from the '90s to reunite in front of the lens for a short film titled "The Reunion," with Cindy Crawford taking to Instagram to give us a look behind the scenes. In the pic, the 49-year-old bombshell poses for a robe-clad picture alongside Karen Alexander, Nadja Auermann, Helena Christensen and Tatjana Patitz​​. Eva Herzigova also appears in the video. "The reunion! #Bts with @therealpeterlindbergh. Director's cut video up on @nowness today...More to come," she teased. "The thing that makes working with Peter memorable is his energy," Crawford says in the Nowness video. "He loves women and that really comes across. He really sees the beauty in a mature woman." "Nadja, it is the most beautiful picture of you," the famed photographer says to the model in a clip. "It...

It's like a blast from the past, and these ladies still look just as beautiful as they did 20 years ago! Fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh got some of the most iconic supermodels from the '90s together for a new project he's working on, and it's pretty epic. Cindy Crawford posted a photo of herself and Eva Herzigova, Karen Alexander, Nadja Auermann and Tatjana Patitz​​ dressed in white robes at the beach during a shoot for The Reunion. "The reunion! #Bts with @therealpeterlindbergh. Director's cut video up on @nowness today...More to come," she wrote. The Reunion brings the models Lindbergh's worked with in the past together one more time. "Nadja,...

Self-taught filmmaker Michael Jenkins [pictured] becomes inaugural winner of new talent award.

Bristol’s Afrika Eye festival of African film has announced the winner of its inaugural new talent award.

Self-taught filmmaker Michael Jenkins won with a proposal for a documentary about the use of blackened faces in English folk customs, including Padstow’s Boxing Day parade.

Jenkins receives a £400 script research and development bursary from the festival, as well as mentoring and production support from the competition’s judges: RCA’s Karen Alexander, B3 Media’s Martin Boothe, Afrika Eye’s co-founder Ingrid Sinclair and Laura Marshall, MD of Icon Films, Bristol.

This year’s Afrika Eye festival also included sold-out screenings of Nairobi Half Life and Something Necessary, alongside the world premiere of Simon Bright’s latest documentary The King and The People.