Back to Black review – woozy Amy Winehouse biopic buoyed by extraordinary lead performance
Sam Taylor-Johnson’s best film to date is more interested in romance and creativity than demons or blame
March 2024
Observer New Review Q&A
Eddie Marsan: ‘Mitch Winehouse was a loving father whose daughter was an addict’
The actor on playing Amy Winehouse’s dad, leaving school at 15, and why he loves going back to London’s East End
February 2024
Full trailer for Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black released
Much hyped Sam Taylor-Johnson film stars Marisa Abela as the singer, who died at her north London home in 2011
December 2022
Charlotte review – absorbing animation about a remarkable artist, murdered at Auschwitz
Keira Knightley gives voice to Charlotte Salomon, the German-Jewish painter who said she killed her own grandfather after he abused her, in a powerful but flawed biopic
October 2022
Vesper review – inventive, festering eco-parable from a teen-eye’s view
The reader interview
Eddie Marsan: ‘I’m proud of the snot because it meant I was being truthful’
September 2022
The reader interview
Post your questions for Eddie Marsan
Having appeared in everything from EastEnders to Mission: Impossible, the versatile character actor is also famous for being nice and he’s ready to spill the beans
May 2022
Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
S3 E3: Eddie Marsan, actor
For the third episode of season three of Comfort Eating, Grace welcomes the Ridley Road, Ray Donovan and Sherlock actor Eddie Marsan round to hers
April 2022
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Original Observer Photography
‘Insulting!’: viewers criticise accents in ‘canoe man’ drama
Weekend
Actor Eddie Marsan, Marina Hyde on Commons’ crims, popstar afterlife, regrets of the dying– podcast
Choose or Die review – gory Netflix video game horror
Death, fraud and canoes: how a mind-blowing insurance scam became an ITV drama
‘In France, I’d be a sex symbol’: Eddie Marsan on looks, lucky breaks and playing angry men
January 2022
Stream team
Still Life: 2013’s big-hearted gem is a salute to all the lonely people
Eddie Marsan is a revelation in this unpretentious British film about a council worker who delivers posthumous dignity to those who die alone
August 2021
TV tonight
TV tonight: the hunt for the killer of Rachel Nickell
A dramatisation of the botched 1990s murder investigation begins with a rookie cop going undercover. Plus: Paul Merton and Suki Webster continue their road trip. Here’s what to watch tonight
May 2021
TV review
The Pact review – Wales’s Big Little Lies will have you on tenterhooks
Julie Hesmondhalgh and Eddie Marsan lead a starry cast in the BBC’s dark new whodunnit, with shades of Harlan Coben – and, hopefully, intrigue and scares to the last
March 2021
Feedback review – Eddie Marsan thriller on the wrong frequency
Marsan plays a lefty radio presenter under siege – but there is an awful lot of unconvincing plot and incongruous violence here
September 2020
Magical Adventures in the Forbidden City review – steampunk fantasy hints at allegory
Entrancing effects, but dubbed-sounding voices and wooden acting tip this movie into the bizarre
April 2020
Lockdown culture
'Can we do this without breaking the law?' Inside the first lockdown TV drama
ITV’s Isolation Stories stars Sheridan Smith and Eddie Marsan, is shot by their family members and was directed via Zoom. Is this the future of TV drama under coronavirus?
