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Adam McKay

March 2024

  • a man speaks into a megaphone while another holds a countdown clock titled "climate clock"

    Big oil uncovered
    Film studio from Oscar-winning director aims to stir up ‘populist anger’ over climate crisis

    Yellow Dot Studios produces short-form videos to inform with ‘genuine, righteous anger’ and ‘laugh-out-loud comedy’

June 2023

  • Adam McKay

    Don’t Look Up director Adam McKay to triple donations to Just Stop Oil

    Hollywood director of climate crisis satire praised protestors for waking up ‘sleeping governments’ and will triple donations over weekend

May 2023

  • succesA photo montage of the characters in Succession with Logan Roy (Brian Cox) at the topsion

    Jesse Armstrong on the roots of Succession: ‘Would it have landed the same way without the mad bum-rush of Trump’s presidency?’

    It has been the TV drama of our time – a brutal, hilarious unpicking of how power works. As the series comes to an end, its creator looks back at its origin and the unholy trinity of men who helped inspire Logan Roy

February 2023

  • Amol Rajan and Bill Gates talk in front of a concrete building signed Maternity Block.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Bill Gates talks politics, divorce and chickens

    Amol Rajan gets the billionaire philanthropist to open up. Plus: Joe Lycett eats a naughty donut. Here’s what to watch this evening

January 2023

  • L to R: Paul Rudd, Will Ferrell, David Koechner and Steve Carell in Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgundy.

    Anchorman director to sell Sex Panther prop in climate fund auction

    Adam McKay also selling walk-on role in next film, vintage Marvel comics and basketball cards

April 2022

  • Gary Betzner, ‘an Arkansas crop duster who becomes a drug smuggler, makes millions and then loses it, and reinvents himself again as a whistleblower’.

    ‘People don’t disappear into thin air’: behind shocking docuseries The Invisible Pilot

    The series recounts the 1977 disappearance of an Arkansas family man mired in drug smuggling and international scandal

March 2022

  • John C Reilly and Quincy Isaiah in Winning Time.

    Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty review – over-stretched basketball drama

    Adam McKay and John C Reilly join forces for a look back at the rise of the Lakers but strong performances can’t quite paper over a messy structure

December 2021

  • Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence in Don't Look Up

    Look away: why star-studded comet satire Don’t Look Up is a disaster

    Charles Bramesco
  • Adam McKay: ‘How does a society function when bad news is not an easy sell?’

    Adam McKay: ‘Leo sees Meryl as film royalty – he didn’t like seeing her with a lower back tattoo’

  • DON'T LOOK UP (L to R) CATE BLANCHETT as BRIE EVANTEE and TYLER PERRY as JACK BREMMER. Cr. NIKO TAVERNISE/NETFLIX © 2021 Film still

    ‘I’d stop stockpiling toilet paper’: Cate Blanchett, Mark Rylance and Tyler Perry on their end-of-the-world plans

  • Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio track their asteroid.

    Don’t Look Up review – slapstick apocalypse according to DiCaprio and Lawrence

November 2019

  • Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker

    From the outhouse to the arthouse: how Hollywood's kings of comedy got serious

    Cinema’s former fart-gag maestros have recast themselves as social critics. Are they the ideal pundits for an age of obscenity?

September 2019

  • FILE PHOTO: Geoffrey Berman points to a photograph of Jeffrey Epstein in New York<br>FILE PHOTO: Geoffrey Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photograph of Jeffrey Epstein as he announces the financier’s charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors, in New York, U.S., July 8, 2019. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo

    Best podcasts of the week
    A bold new podcast takes on the Epstein scandal – podcasts of the week

    Big Short director Adam McKay teams up with investigative journalists for a deep dive into the case of the disgraced financier

February 2019

  • LIBRARY IMAGE OF VICE<br>Christian Bale &amp; Amy Adams Film: Vice 25 December 2018 Director: Adam Mckay 25 December 2018 SAY96984 Allstar Picture Library/ANNAPURNA PICTURES **Warning** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of ANNAPURNA PICTURES and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To ANNAPURNA PICTURES is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Best picture Oscar hustings
    Why Vice should win the best picture Oscar

    Best film of the year – or worst? Opinion is deeply divided, but the Dick Cheney biopic, starring a chunky Christian Bale, is as hilarious as it is grotesque

January 2019

  • Amy Adams as Lynne Cheney and Christian Bale as Dick Cheney in Vice.

    Vice review – ambitious, amusing, but confused portrait of Dick Cheney

  • LIBRARY IMAGE OF VICE<br>Christian Bale Film: Vice 25 December 2018 Director: Adam Mckay 25 December 2018 SAY96846 Allstar Picture Library/ANNAPURNA PICTURES **Warning** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of ANNAPURNA PICTURES and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company & can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To ANNAPURNA PICTURES is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Adam Curtis and Vice director Adam McKay on how Dick Cheney masterminded a rightwing revolution

  • This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Bradley Cooper, left, and Lady Gaga in a scene from “A Star is Born.” (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

    Golden Globes 2019: who will win – and who should win – the film categories

  • From left: Vice; If Beale Street Could Talk; Burning

    2019 arts preview
    Royals, rogues and Rudolf Nureyev: the best films of 2019

December 2018

  • Dick Cheney: probably the most powerful vice-president in history.

    Dick Cheney is back but rehabilitation is not on Darth Vader's agenda

  • Christian Bale as Dick Cheney, with Amy Adams as Lynne Cheney behind

    Vice review – Christian Bale hilarious as toad-like VP Dick Cheney

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