As Shrek returns to cinemas this week for its 25th anniversary, we revisit Kim Newman’s appraisal of its fairytale gags, zany characters and CGI innovations. From our July 2001 issue.

Ahead of his upcoming BFI Southbank season Station to Station: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Top Ten Train Films, the Nobel prize-winning author writes exclusively about some of the finest films set aboard trains.

A favourite of directors including Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese, the 1953 version of Invaders from Mars frightened a generation with its vision of Martian mind-controllers arriving on Earth.

Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway return for a sequel torn between crowd-pleasing callbacks and anxious meditations on the decline of print media and the rise of AI.

The concluding chapter of the director’s Cairo trilogy is an angry portrait of censorship, propaganda and complicity under the rule of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

Authenticity is the single most important question when buying and selling art – more than quality, which allows for a higher degree of subjectivity. Whether an artwork is being flogged for seven or ...

Had Californian sunlight ever looked as suggestive or sinister before the sharply etched dreamworld of Meshes of the Afternoon?

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In 2022 the BFI Filmography data visualisation platform was taken offline. The Collections Information Database has an online version where you can search across the BFI National Archive’s collections ...