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.

As the beloved broadcaster turns 100, curator Elinor Groom digs into some unusual roles and archive daytime TV appearances from David Attenborough’s decades-spanning career as an irrepressible force ...

One hundred and twenty years after the birth of Roberto Rossellini, we go looking for the original Berlin locations of one of his searing neorealist classics, which was filmed in the bombed out ...

Documentarian Yihwen Chen’s film about charismatic punk band Shh… Diam! has the feel of a hang-out movie, but uses the group’s experiences to probe the increasingly hostile policies faced by queer ...

This week discover more about a research project exploring silent film depictions of the ancient world and a BFI Replay event in Blackpool.

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.

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