Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget to Maestro – the best films to watch on TV until Christmas
Aardman’s egg-streamly excellent British comedy makes a welcome return, and Bradley Cooper is a superb Leonard Bernstein
November 2023
Elf review – Will Ferrell is still Santa’s biggest helper in Christmas comedy favourite
Week in geek
Snow White and the depressing culture war over Disney’s ‘woke’ remake
February 2023
She Came to Me review – Peter Dinklage leads sparklingly convoluted romantic comedy
Dinklage plays a composer who writes an opera about his affair with tugboat captain Marisa Tomei, in a comedy from Rebecca Miller that has something of Normal People
February 2022
Cyrano review – Peter Dinklage woos to no avail in Joe Wright’s musical romance
Cyrano review – Peter Dinklage captivates as letter ghostwriter in musical version
Romance, 14th-century style: why cinema has fallen for courtly love
Haley Bennett: ‘I always felt like, what’s wrong with me?’
January 2022
Peter Dinklage is right: a live-action Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a fundamentally awful idea
Kiruna Stamell
Peter Dinklage criticises Disney for ‘backwards’ remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
July 2021
The Croods: A New Age review – much yabba-dabba ado in caveman caper
A-list voice actors leaven this hectic children’s movie with gags for grownups
February 2021
I Care a Lot review – Rosamund Pike excels in gleefully vicious tragicomedy
I Care a Lot review – Rosamund Pike is exquisitely nasty in toxic thriller
September 2020
First look review
I Care a Lot review – Rosamund Pike vamps and vapes in delicious thriller
The Oscar nominee resurrects the icy menace of her Gone Girl performance in a darkly comic and bracingly nasty tale of a morally bankrupt legal guardian
November 2019
Cyrano review – Peter Dinklage sings through patchy musical update
A new take on the romantic comedy boasts music from the National and a stellar turn from Glee’s Blake Jenner but there are stumbles throughout
March 2019
10 of the strangest star cameos in video games
Rami Malek’s slasher horror, Bowie as a cyberpunk hacker, streetfighting Carmen Electra, and John Hurt down and dirty … improbable roles for A-listers
October 2018
TV review
My Dinner with Hervé review – a glorious and tragic romp in 90s Lalaland
Peter Dinklage is brilliant in this tale of Hervé Villechaize’s ‘suicide note’ interview – it’s just a shame the journalist ends up centre-stage
February 2018
Three Billboards' portrayal of dwarfism is reductive and ableist, and I would know
Eva Squire
Peter Dinklage hailed the script. But as a woman with dwarfism, it wasn’t just the cheap gags at his character’s expense that I found troubling
September 2015
Destiny: The Taken King review: finally, the game it should have been
TV and radio blog
Dragons can win Emmys – but was this the best season of Game of Thrones?
