‘I hate it. It sucks. But it didn’t defeat me’: Michael J Fox on pity, Parkinson’s – and a potential cure
The actor was diagnosed with the disease when he was just 29 and one of Hollywood’s hottest stars. He talks about how he’s coped, what frightens him – and why being a saint is so boring
September 2023
‘That’s just a blue Elon Musk!’ – the real-life people behind TV and film’s biggest baddies
Thrawn is supposed to be the most wicked character in Star Wars – so why does he look like a tech billionaire? But he’s not the first fictional bad guy inspired by reality
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
November 2022
‘The films have soul’: the Back to the Future fan with his own exhibition
Visitors can see the largest private collection of memorabilia from the sci-fi trilogy in Europe at London show
June 2022
Twenty-six seconds of fame: how Doctor Strange got upstaged by an overacting extra
Sealed Back to the Future VHS tape sells for $75,000 at US auction
April 2022
Future Shock review – like a pretentious nightclub where no one is dancing
It claims to showcase the art of the future, but surely we have more to look forward to than dry ice, lights and music that sounds like the contents of Brian Eno’s dustbin
March 2022
The Guide newsletter
The Guide #25: From Gotham to Zion – which is the best fictional city?
In this week’s newsletter: Batman’s home has taken many shapes over the decades – but it’s never felt like somewhere you’d want to settle down
September 2021
Back for another bite: why classic 70s and 80s screen classics are new stars of the stage
The boat in Jaws, the flashy car in Back to the Future, and the kitchen in The Good Life: it seems we all want to recapture those moments – but in the theatre
Back to the Future: The Musical review – the car’s the star
This is a splashy theatre-film mashup, with gravity-defying effects, cute quirks and offbeat gags
‘Up yours, Covid!’ Roger Bart on playing ‘Doc’ Emmett Brown
Fire up the DeLorean! The Desperate Housewives actor is playing the time-travelling scientist in the Back to the Future musical – now he can finally sing in Christopher Lloyd’s accent
July 2021
TV review
Myth & Mogul: John DeLorean review – how years of lies felled an automotive giant
Netflix’s docuseries delves into how the king of the gull-winged car deceived his way to the top – then got arrested for a multimillion-dollar cocaine trafficking plot
May 2021
Reopening culture
‘There’s nothing like it!’ Musical stars return to storm the stage
Performers from the hits Hamilton, Pretty Woman and Back to the Future consider theatre’s comeback and the shows they can’t wait to see
March 2021
The G2 interview
‘Wife No 5 is the last’: Back to the Future’s Christopher Lloyd on love and life
In 1984, Lloyd was playing a Klingon in Star Trek; today he’s William Shatner’s friend in the romcom Senior Moment. Soon, he will be King Lear. Is there a logic to his apparently chaotic career?
November 2020
Michael J Fox: ‘Every step now is a frigging math problem, so I take it slow’
After living with Parkinson’s for 30 years, the actor still counts himself a lucky man. He reflects on what his diagnosis has taught him about hope, acting, family and medical breakthroughs
September 2020
From Alien to Back to the Future: the films of Ron Cobb – in pictures
'Whoa, this is heavy!' Back to the Future musical to open in London next year
August 2020
Hadley Freeman's Weekend column
A clusterpocalypse is heading our way – so stock up on good times (not loo roll)
Hadley Freeman
We should be watching movies that have nothing to do with the current depressing situation
June 2020
Lockdown culture
The great 80s Zoom reunion! How Josh Gad lured film giants out of lockdown
From Splash to Ferris Bueller, movies from the 80s have proved lockdown dynamite. The voice of Frozen’s Olaf reveals how he turned this nostalgia into Reunited Apart, now a YouTube sensation
April 2020
My favourite film aged 12
My favourite film aged 12: Back to the Future II
I can’t feel anything but eternal love for this propulsive, unrelenting time-travel sequel that changed my life
