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The tournament begins as this butt-kicking sequel brings the video game to the big screen.
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The Greatest Films of All Time issue
Once a decade the magazine asks critics to select the best films ever made. Explore the results in a special edition.
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Object of the week: the 1930s publicity ‘song book’ for the Hindi romance Jeevan Naiya
Lavishly illustrated and featuring all the lyrics, song books were routinely created as part of the publicity for films released in India during the 20th century. Look inside this example from 1936.
By Jesse Woodd
Kazuo Ishiguro’s top ten train films
By Kazuo Ishiguro
Italian auteurs and American upstarts: the Cannes Film Festival in 1976
By Penelope Houston
“A film of marvels if not quite a marvellous film”: Shrek reviewed in 2001
By Kim Newman
Pulsing brain, twitching tentacles: how Invaders from Mars supercharged the alien invasion movie
By George Bass
In search of the locations for Germany, Year Zero: how Roberto Rossellini’s Berlin looks today
By Adam Scovell
Queer as Punk: powerful music doc takes viewers on the road with a radical Malaysian punk band
By Blake Simons
Events
Writer-director Thea Gajić visits BFI Southbank to discuss Surviving Earth, her drama about a Yugoslavian refugee forging a new life in Bristol while battling addiction, joined by cast members Slavko Sobin and Olive Gray.
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