From Twister to Titanic: writers on their favourite disaster movies
As the tornado-chasing sequel Twisters arrives, Guardian writers pick the films that have stuck with them the longest
January 2023
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
February 2022
Oscars nominations 2022: the full list
From Dune to The Power of the Dog, all the nominations for the 94th Academy Awards, which take place on 27 March
Oscar nominations 2022: The Power of the Dog leads the pack
Jane Campion’s repressed western up for 12 prizes at 94th Academy Awards, with Dune scoring 10 nominations and Belfast and West Side Story both bagging seven
Baftas 2022: the full list of nominations
From Dune to The Power of the Dog, all the films up for a gong at the Bafta film awards
January 2022
‘Don’t Look Up’: humanity could avert asteroid Armageddon, say scientists
The gap between Australian climate policy and the science is closing far too slowly – we have to keep up the pressure
Lenore Taylor
Why our secret weapon against the climate crisis could be humour
Adam McKay and Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
The networker
Why the climate-wrecking craze for crypto art really is beyond satire
John Naughton
Mark Rylance: ‘Theatre is a thousand times more enjoyable than film’
Don’t Look Up: four climate experts on the polarising disaster film
Watching Don’t Look Up made me see my whole life of campaigning flash before me
George Monbiot
Apocalypse nowadays: the new wave of films about the end of the world
Lighten up the satire? That’s a tall order when life is out-crazying the most vivid fiction
Catherine Bennett
December 2021
I’m a climate scientist. Don’t Look Up captures the madness I see every day
Peter Kalmus
A film about a comet hurtling towards Earth and no one is doing anything about it? Sounds exactly like the climate crisis
Look away: why star-studded comet satire Don’t Look Up is a disaster
Charles Bramesco
Adam McKay’s celeb-packed Netflix comedy aims to be a farcical warning of climate change but broad potshots and a smug superiority tanks his message
Adam McKay: ‘Leo sees Meryl as film royalty – he didn’t like seeing her with a lower back tattoo’
Don’t Look Up review – an A-list apocalyptic mess
Don’t Look Up review – slapstick apocalypse according to DiCaprio and Lawrence
November 2021
Jennifer Lawrence defends Leonardo DiCaprio’s higher pay for Don’t Look Up
Despite their equal billing on the forthcoming film, Lawrence says she is ‘extremely fortunate and happy with my deal’
