Reviews: Films

Reflections on the Death of Celluloid

Thomas Wartenberg looks at philosophy literally on film.
[Issue 104: September/October 2014]

The Shawshank Redemption

Alexander Hooke finds hell & existentialist hope in prison.
[Issue 102: May/June 2014]

Hannah Arendt

Yasemin Sari on a new film about a courageous thinker and her views on responsibility and the nature of evil.
[Issue 100: January/February 2014]

Dave Chappelle’s Block Party

Dharmender Dhillon asks what happened to the revolutionary potential of hip hop.
[Issue 99: November/December 2013]

Zombie Movie Morals (I)

Peter Stone thinks zombie films are about co-operation.
[Issue 96: May/June 2013]

Zombie Movie Morals (II)

Sarah Stone draws lessons about leadership.
[Issue 96: May/June 2013]

Total Recall

Antony Tomlinson recalls Nozick’s Experience Machine.
[Issue 95: March/April 2013]

The Lion King

Jonathan Barfield argues that an Existentialist trumps a Christian interpretation of this popular Disney parable.
[Issue 94: January/February 2013]

Groundhog Day

Michael Faust reviews this film in the light of eternity.
[Issue 93: November/December 2012]

Let the Right One In

Colin Brookes reflects on ethical and aesthetic issues between vampires and us.
[Issue 92: September/October 2012]

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