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Ben Wheatley

August 2023

  • Roger Evans and Tom Burke in Klokkenluider.

    Klokkenluider review – tough-guy actor Neil Maskell directs brooding black comedy

    There is something of In Bruges about this Belgium-set tale of whistleblowers in hiding, with a little bit of David Brent
  • Neil Maskell

    Neil Maskell: ‘If me and Idris Elba got into a physical altercation, I’d last about a second!’

    From terrifying audiences in Kill List to squaring up to Elba in airline thriller Hijack, the actor has made his name playing a host of wrong’uns. Now he’s leaving the baddies behind to direct a Belgium-based whistleblower drama
  • Jason Statham in Meg 2: The Trench.

    Meg 2: The Trench review – Jason Statham v seamonsters, round two

    Director Ben Wheatley serves up a busy but flavourless bouillabaisse of ideas nicked from Jaws, Jurassic Park, Alien and Sharknado, and leaves it to Statham to occasionally raise a droll smile

February 2023

  • The Strays.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    The Strays to Kill List: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Ashley Madekwe heads up a smart, snappy psychological thriller about escaping a murky past, while Ben Wheatley’s visceral film about a hitman really packs a punch

August 2021

  • A scene from Censor

    Blood, gore and a healthy dose of catharsis: why horror can be good for us

    A grisly feast of scary British films is heading our way. Why now? Once seen as ‘video nasties’, many believe they have a positive role to play in a pandemic

June 2021

  • Ellora Torchia, right, with Joel Fry in In the Earth

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    In the Earth review – a breath of frightening fresh air from Ben Wheatley

    Wheatley unleashes an hallucinogenic horror story of madness, malevolence and mushrooms
  • On home turf ... Reece Shearsmith in In the Earth.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    In the Earth review – Ben Wheatley’s trippy occult horror is a fine return to form

    This low-budget folk-horror is back in Wheatley’s weird, sly world as Joel Fry and Ellora Torchia get lost in the forest
  • Ben Wheatley

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Ben Wheatley: ‘Early on the pandemic felt like a time for getting a crossbow ready to hunt for petroleum’

    The director on his new horror movie set during a pandemic, fearing he’d never work again, and why audiences love Jason Statham

May 2021

  • The Father, Cruella, Sound of Metal

    Reopening culture
    From Black Widow to unseen Beatles footage: what films to see as cinemas reopen

    The dazzling Nomadland leads the way with a medieval thriller, a Ben Wheatley chiller and Emma Stone’s Cruella hot on its heels

January 2021

  • This image released by the Sundance Institute shows Reece Shearsmith in a scene from “In the Earth,” an official selection of the Premieres section at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. (Sundance Institute via AP)

    First look review
    In the Earth review – Ben Wheatley's patchy pandemic folk horror

  • From clockwise: On the Count of Three, Censor and Passing

    Sundance 2021: which films might break out this year?

October 2020

  • Lily James

    Lily James: 'I got sucked into the vortex. I didn't know which way to turn'

    She made her name playing sunny sweethearts, but now James is going gothic in a new Rebecca. She talks getting spooked on set, Covid bubbles and co-stars
  • REBECCA<br>Rebecca: (L to R) Armie Hammer as Maxim de Winter, Lily James as Mrs. de Winter. Cr. KERRY BROWN/NETFLIX

    Rebecca review – perfectly watchable romp

    Kristin Scott Thomas is a flawless Mrs Danvers in Ben Wheatley’s conventional take on the Du Maurier classic
  • Too obviously sexed up … Armie Hammer and Lily James in Rebecca.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Rebecca review – overdressed and underpowered romantic thriller

    Ben Wheatley’s take on the Daphne du Maurier story has moments of spectacle and disquiet but hunky Armie Hammer is miscast as the troubled widower

September 2020

  • Rebecca trailer screengrab 4

    Call me by my dead wife's name: can Netflix persuade us we need another Rebecca?

    You read the book, you know the drill. Will Armie Hammer and Lily James offer any surprises? You already know the answer

August 2019

  • Ben Wheatley

    Ben Wheatley to direct zombie-pensioner TV satire on divided Britain

    Kill List and High-Rise director’s drama for Channel 4 will skewer tensions between age groups

October 2018

  • Happy New Year Colin Burstead film still

    Happy New Year, Colin Burstead review – Ben Wheatley contrives a simmering hothouse of misery

    Neil Maskell is the standout performer in Wheatley’s drama of dysfunction, as a man inviting his family to a New Year party in the country

February 2018

  • Best of 2017 … (clockwise from top left) Get Out, Personal Shopper, Moonlight, The Lego Batman Movie, The Handmaiden

    Best films
    The best films of 2017 so far

    La La Land and The Love Witch wove magic, Moonlight and Lion wrung out tears, while Get Out and Lady Macbeth got nasty. Plus, there were striking debuts, returns to form by seasoned directors and reunions for the Trainspotting rogues

November 2017

  • Ridley Scott Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial

    Film blog
    Hollywood vending: the best and worst adverts by big-name directors

    With avant garde whizz Michel Gondry helming John Lewis’s latest lampshade-peddling showpiece, we look at movie-makers’ mixed attempts at marketing

August 2017

  • Kim Tae-ri, left, and Kim Min-hee in The Handmaiden: ‘prizes sensualism over shock’.

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Ghost in the Shell; The Handmaiden; Viceroy’s House and more – review

    Carnal pleasures and clever plotting combine in Park Chan-wook’s thrilling The Handmaiden, while Scarlett Johansson is a woman of steel
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