When Midnight Cowboy came out 56 years ago this week, it instantly upended Hollywood's idea of a mainstream hit. In its Academy Award-winning year, the BBC spoke to one of its actors.

Featuring Benicio Del Toro, Michael Cera, Scarlett Johansson and many more stars, the director's latest farce The Phoenician Scheme has premiered at Cannes – and it's daft but fun.

Director Ari Aster is once again set to shock with surreal, gory western Eddington, featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, which is premiering at the Cannes Film Festival.

A new book, How to Kill a Witch, brings a dark period of history back to grisly life – and an official tartan is being released to memorialise some of those who were tortured and killed.

From skinny to barrel and ultra-high to low-slung, jeans trends are ever-changing. How can we choose the perfect pair for us, and maintain them properly?

The opposite of an escapist blockbuster, the eighth and apparently final outing for Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt is the doomiest and gloomiest yet in the action-adventure franchise.

In May 1943, a specially formed RAF squadron embarked on a daring moonlit mission. In 1976, the BBC spoke to one of the airmen who made it home alive.

On 12 June 1962, three men escaped from the notorious Alcatraz prison. While their fate remains unknown, the ingenuity of their escape continues to captivate.

In 1956, Commander "Buster" Crabb disappeared during a visit to the UK by Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev. In 2006, a BBC reporter read the files that detailed his secret mission.

CIA officer Aldrich Ames spent nearly a decade selling secrets to the Soviet Union, leading to the deaths of at least 10 Western agents. In 1994, the BBC spoke to one of the spies he betrayed.

In April 1983, a British newspaper, The Sunday Times, claimed to be printing an extraordinary historical document. In fact, the forged diaries were an extraordinary hoax.

Twelve suspects were put on trial in April 1964. More than a decade later, several of them talked to the BBC about the notorious heist.