The Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly – but couldn’t be sure if the butterfly wasn’t the one having the dream about him.
Category: Films
Buffalo Kids review – CGI old west adventure with a big, warm heart
This is the family-friendly animated story of Tom and Mary, a pair of parentless 19th-century mites making the journey from Ireland to California in search
Blitz review – Steve McQueen’s rousing wartime adventure is surprisingly old-fashioned
Steve McQueen finds the key of C major for this well made and unashamedly old-fashioned wartime adventure, heartfelt and rousing and – yes – a
‘I hope God gives me the strength to make more movies’: Scorsese addresses retirement rumours
Martin Scorsese has denied he is planning to retire, telling a press conference in Italy that he has “more films to make” after reports surfaced
Flopping at the box office, hated by the critics – could Joker: Folie à Deux possibly be any worse?
Name: Joker: Folie à Deux. Age: Released last week. A moving picture, right? Yes, the sequel to 2019’s Joker, Todd Phillips’s critically acclaimed, Oscar-winning take
Almodóvar in English, McQueen at war and Jolie on song: Peter Bradshaw’s picks of the London film festival
A Traveler’s Needs It’s one of the most intriguing director-star pairings in world cinema: Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo and French icon Isabelle Huppert. This is
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person review – ethical kills for teen bloodsucker
Imagine Beetlejuice-era Winona Ryder playing Amelie (dressed in goth black naturally), and you’ve got a pretty good impression of the heroine in this cool offbeat
Haunted Ulster Live review – mock Halloween broadcast evokes the spectre of Ghostwatch
On Halloween in 1992, the BBC spooked the nation with the mockumentary Ghostwatch, an apparently live broadcast from Britain’s most haunted house. Despite its being
A Long Journey Home review – family pressures reach boiling point in a shocking documentary
Chinese film-maker Wenqian Zhang makes her feature debut with this amazingly intimate, emotionally painful and personal film about her dysfunctional family; completed in 2022, it
Singin’ in the nuclear rain: new films push the musical genre in a darker direction
A murderous psychopath mournfully sings his heart out in jail. A family living in a below-ground bunker chorus together about the end of the world.