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Idris Elba

June 2024

  • Tems performing at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in May – the Nigerian artist has been added to the Glastonbury lineup.

    Glastonbury announces full 2024 lineup, adding James, Tems, Squeeze and more

    Femi Kuti, Seasick Steve and Birmingham Royal Ballet among other artists added as festival announces full range of stage times

April 2024

  • Minor characters for the win! … Knuckles, voiced by Idris Elba.

    TV review
    Knuckles review – Idris Elba’s Sonic spin-off is ludicrous, hilarious and actually rather moving

    The further this show leans into its silly side, the better it becomes. It is about an echidna space warrior helping his pal get to a bowling tournament, after all

March 2024

  • Licensed to kill? Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Idris Elba and James Martin.

    Keoghan, Madden, James Martin: who should be James Bond, if Aaron Taylor-Johnson is out?

  • Idris Elba said he wanted to reframe how Africa was viewed and that his model for the development of Sherbro was ‘completely different’.

    Idris Elba reveals ‘dream’ of building eco city on island off Sierra Leone

January 2024

  • Idris Elba standing in Parliament Square

    Idris Elba argues against mandatory prison sentences for carrying a knife

  • Idris Elba stands in Parliament Square in London with bundles of clothing representing lives lost to knife crime in the UK.

    Idris Elba calls for immediate ban on machetes and ‘zombie’ knives

July 2023

  • Idris Elba in Hijack:

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Hijack; Boris, the Lord & the Russian Spy; Before We Die; The Trouble With KanYe

    Idris Elba plays it uncool in Apple’s pacy hostage drama; Dispatches has a field day with Boris Johnson and the Lebedevs; sparks fly between two criminal matriarchs; and what the hell happened to Kanye West?

June 2023

  • Licensed to thrill … Idris Elba at the premiere of Apple TV+ series Hijack in London on 27 June.

    Idris Elba: racist backlash made speculation over James Bond ‘disgusting’

    Star of The Wire and Luther says playing 007 would be the pinnacle of an actor’s career, but the discussion became ‘off-putting’
  • Idris Elba

    TV review
    Hijack review – Idris Elba makes this beautifully daft plane thriller soar

    The Luther star is majestically charismatic in this real-time hijack drama. He is the rock on which seven hours of brilliant, bingeable nonsense are based
  • A soupçon of sensitivity … Chris Hemsworth in Extraction 2

    Extraction 2 review – Chris Hemsworth action sequel most interested in extracting cash

    Seemingly dead at the end of the previous movie, Hemsworth returns as the tough guy mercenary with a heart of gold on a mission to save someone from something

March 2023

  • Luther: The Fallen Sun

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Luther to Room: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

  • Idris Elba in Luther: The Fallen Sun.

    Idris Elba: ‘You can make sparkling wine in Portsmouth or champagne in Champagne. My ambition was to make champagne’

February 2023

  • Idris Elba as John Luther in Luther: The Fallen Sun.

    Luther: The Fallen Sun review – grisly violence takes starring role

    Feature incarnation of the Idris Elba cop drama sees a ropey but savage snuff-porn plot get too much explicit attention

September 2022

  • Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton in Three Thousand Years of Longing.

    Three Thousand Years of Longing review – djinn in need of a tonic

  • On a whim … Tilda Swinton in Three Thousand Years of Longing

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Three Thousand Years of Longing review – heartfelt Aladdinesque adventure for grownups

August 2022

  • Idris Elba in a scene from "Beast."

    Beast review – are you on Team Lion or Team Idris?

    An enraged lion gives Idris Elba’s Nate and daughters a safari to remember as director Baltasar Kormákur brings unusual depth to the animal attack genre
  • Idris Elba

    The reader interview
    Idris Elba: ‘You need a good coat if you’re going to be a detective’

    The actor and musician answers your questions on how to stare down a lion, what Luther would say to Stringer Bell, and whether he was named after the dragon from Ivor the Engine
  • This image released by Universal Pictures shows Idris Elba in a scene from "Beast." (Lauren Mulligan/Universal Pictures via AP)

    Beast review – Idris Elba takes on a lion in a ferociously fun thriller

    The star anchors a surprisingly effective South Africa-set B-movie about a family who find themselves stalked by a particularly gnarly lion

July 2022

  • Idris Elba will answer your questions.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Idris Elba

    Ahead of the release of new film Beast, the actor, musician, podcaster and possibly the next James Bond will take on your questions

June 2022

  • BFI Chair's Dinner<br>Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson awarded BFI Fellowships at the BFI Chair's Dinner at Claridge's in London. Picture date: Tuesday June 28, 2022. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Suzan Moore/PA Wire

    Next Bond film will be ‘complete reinvention’ but won’t shoot for ‘at least two years’

    Barbara Broccoli has revealed details about the future of the 007 franchise after the departure of Daniel Craig
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