Being Bridget Jones review – a sense of humour that came to define an era
Marking 25 years since Helen Fielding’s creation first appeared in a newspaper column, the stars of the films and many more line up to offer real insight
October 2017
Sarah Solemani: 'The TV and film industries are toxic – and it starts in the audition room'
Sarah Solemani
The Harvey Weinstein scandal puts us at a crossroads. Can we remake the industry?
May 2017
Helen Fielding says Bridget Jones books are not anti-feminist
Peter Preston on press and broadcasting
Are men ‘nicking’ the Today limelight, or is something else afoot?
Peter Preston
April 2017
Why we should learn to stop worrying and love the blockbuster franchise
Each summer brings with it plenty of critical scorn for big-budget sequels but what can they teach us about the passage of time and the sociopolitical climate?
January 2017
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Bridget Jones’s Baby; Deepwater Horizon; War on Everyone and more – review
Comforts, catastrophes and chills in a week dominated by Renée Zellweger’s return as the klutzy singleton and Mark Walhlberg’s heroics in the Mexican Gulf
Choose life? Trainspotting’s realism hit a nerve, but we want escapism now
Catherine Shoard
Films used to make us face up to the real world – but today they allow us to avoid modernity and wallow in nostalgia
UK box office records its biggest-ever total in 2016
Buoyed by success of Rogue One and Fantastic Beasts, UK cinemas beat the previous best figures from the year before
December 2016
Box office analysis: UK
Rogue One opens well in the UK – but not quite as well as Fantastic Beasts
Star Wars spin-off claims biggest opening of the year as rereleased James Stewart classic It’s a Wonderful Life crashes back into the festive chart
A Wonder Woman at the UN? How about a real one?
Catherine Bennett
It hasn’t been a good week for female empowerment, with fictional characters being held up as role models
Shortcuts
Why the Woman’s Hour power list is as daft as the second Bridget Jones film
Film blog
How cinema failed diversity in 2016
I, Daniel Blake sweeps Evening Standard film awards
November 2016
Box office analysis: UK
The Accountant adds up to a big deal at the UK box office
Box office analysis: UK
Doctor Strange sweeps into a new cosmic realm at UK box office
October 2016
Digested read
Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries by Helen Fielding – digested read
The differently peopled book of the film of Bridget Jones’s Baby has its entries abridged by John Crace
Box office analysis: UK
The Girl on the Train still UK's top ticket as Bridget Jones's Baby makes history
Emily Blunt’s thrilling commute outpaces Tom Hanks’s globetrotting adventures in Inferno in a clash of book adaptations
Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries by Helen Fielding – review
Box office analysis: UK
The Girl on the Train beats Bridget Jones's Baby – and Gone Girl – in UK
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