Skip to main content

Search: Starring Christopher Fairbank

  • Auf Wiedersehen, Pet: Series One (1983)
    Review preview for Auf Wiedersehen, Pet: Series One

    Brilliantly-written, expertly-observed and just as well acted.

    Stephen Carty · 4.5 out of 5
    First season of the comedy drama about brickies abroad.
  • Cargo (2006)
    Review preview for Cargo

    Cargo gets scuppered by its serpentine story, which is more confusing than compelling.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    Madness and murder on a dilapidated cargo ship.
  • Lady Macbeth (2016)
    Review preview for Lady Macbeth

    Just when you think you know this story, Oldroyd and Birch begin to show you that you don't.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A woman sold into a loveless marriage develops a mind for murder after starting an affair.
  • Papillon (2017)
    Review preview for Papillon

    The violence is backed up with solitary confinement and mental deprivation

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Adaptation of the classic novel about prisoners in a French penal colony.
  • The Show (2020)
    Review preview for The Show

    In the end, The Show bites off more than it can chew, but it makes a good effort and there’s plenty there to please the fans.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A man's search for a stolen artefact leads him to the haunted town filled with Voodoo gangsters, masked adventurers, Depression-era private eyes and violent chiaroscuro women.
  • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (2005)
    Review preview for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit

    Pure joy from start to finish.

    Anton Bitel · 4.5 out of 5
    A vegetable horror comedy for claymation villagers and a dog.

News and features

Paul Rowley on moving to New York, the Pulse massacre, and Gays Against Guns

Going ape Antonin Niclass on character creation, empathy and animated short Into The Forest

Freeform Will Niava on grief, new immigrant experiences and Jazz Infernal

In silence Emir Kumova on child marriage in Türkiye, moral challenges and making The Witness

Taking a ride into liminal spaces Katharine Round on making documentary Ghost Town

Flying blind Michael Woloson and Scott Tinkham on improvisation, experimental writing and Littermates

In deep water Dominic Curran on internet overexposure and A Little Learning Is A Dangerous Thing

More news and features

Festival coverage

Festivals
Cannes festival coverage, 2026

We're bringing you all the latest news and reviews from the Cheltenham International Film Festival, the Leeds International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and Tallinn Black Nights.



We're looking forward to the French Film Festival and DOC NYC.



We've recently brought you coverage of the Belfast Film Festival, Halloween Frightfest, the Scottish Queer International Film Festival, Newfest, the London Film Festival, the New York Film Festival and Grimmfest.



Read our full for more.


Visit our festivals section.