Look at the crisis in the Amazon and understand the stakes: we’re battling for life itself
Mark Ruffalo
At this week’s Amazon summit, the world must stand with Indigenous peoples – and demand protection for the rainforest, says actor and activist Mark Ruffalo
February 2023
The 20 best time-travel movies – ranked!
As Adam Driver accidentally winds up 65m years ago, facing not just dinosaurs but an asteroid, we count down the best films about going backwards, or forwards, through the ages
January 2023
Happy new fear: what can films set in 2023 tell us about what lies ahead?
From legalized murder to destructive drones, Hollywood doesn’t have the most optimistic outlook
March 2022
Blockbuster or bladderburster? Why movie intermissions must return – now!
From Bond to The Batman, films are nearing the leg-crossing, buttock-numbing three-hour mark. Bring back the interval, says our writer, and a golden era of cinema will follow
August 2021
Marvel and DC face backlash over pay: ‘They sent a thank you note and $5,000 – the movie made $1bn’
As the comics giants make billions from their storylines and characters, writers and artists are speaking out about their struggles for fair payment
March 2021
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: episode recaps
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode one recap: is the world ready for a black Captain America?
There is life after Endgame, but Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes are having a hard time finding purpose. Just as well there’s a new terror group in town
September 2020
Guard that property! Our reaction to Chris Evans' nudes reveals the remarkable power of Captain America
Stuart Heritage
Why so serious? Tenet and the new wave of 'science-based' time travel movies
August 2020
Chadwick Boseman obituary
Chadwick Boseman: a life in pictures
January 2020
Quentin Tarantino: I am in combat with blockbuster franchises
Quentin Tarantino says ‘original movies’ are in a ‘war’ with superhero and Star Wars franchises, echoing Martin Scorsese’s attack on Marvel films
December 2019
Observer business agenda
Disney’s stable of heroes dominates the big-screen galaxy
Investors criticised the studio’s deals with Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm, but the strategy has paid back 10 times over
Top UK films 2019
The 50 best films of 2019 in the UK: the full list
Our pick of the year’s top movies released in the UK reveals the end of an era, painful breakups, festive families, horrors both real and imagined, and heroes of many kinds
Black Widow: first trailer for the Scarlett Johansson superhero movie released online
The standalone movie starring Johansson as the KGB assassin turned Avengers superhero has its first footage on the internet
September 2019
Week in geek
Bringing back Robert Downey Jr's Iron Man for the Black Widow movie is cheating
Mean, moody, or a mope? If Boris is the Hulk, which Hulk is he?
August 2019
So extra: how the director's cut became Hollywood's best ruse to milk fans dry
They used to come out years after the original – and be quite different. Now films such as Avengers: Endgame are released in ‘new’ versions weeks after the original – and fans are lapping them up
Summer box office 2019: what are the major lessons of the season?
Less rebooting! More Keanu! Less Shaft! The summer season is over and it’s time to sift through the hits and misses to see what the industry can learn
Disney, king of the box office, now primed to do battle with Netflix
World’s biggest entertainment company reports its results this week
July 2019
Disney breaks own record for global box office returns in a year
The Lion King helps Disney amass $7.67bn to date in 2019, passing the previous best mark of $7.61bn in 2016
