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Elvis & Nixon

October 2016

  • Ruth Wilson in I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House.

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    I am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House; The Neon Demon and more – review

    Hauntings and mind games provide the chills in two superior Halloween releases from Osgood Perkins and Nicolas Winding Refn

June 2016

  • Biggest animated opening of the year so far … The Secret Life of Pets.

    Box office analysis: UK
    The Secret Life of Pets repels alien invasion at UK box office

    Family-friendly animation scampers to No 1 ahead of Independence Day: Resurgence, while Elvis & Nixon are all shook up on the indie circuit
  • Elvis &amp; Nixon - 2016<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage Mandatory Credit: Photo by Everett/REX/Shutterstock (5608796c) Kevin Spacey, Michael Shannon Elvis &amp; Nixon - 2016

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Elvis & Nixon review – the odd couple

    Kevin Spacey plays the president for laughs in a slight but enjoyable imagining of Elvis’s real life meeting with Nixon
    • Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
      Elvis & Nixon review – Tricky Dicky meets the King in the Oval Office

    • The Guardian's Film Weekly
      Matt Damon lobbies for dogs and Elvis & Nixon reviewed – the Dailies film podcast

    • Elvis and Nixon, Reagan and Jacko, Jagger and Blair … when pop stars and politicians collide

April 2016

  • In this image released by the Tribeca Film Festival, Michael Shannon portrays Elvis Presley, left, and Kevin Spacey portrays President Richard Nixon in a scene from "Elvis &amp; Nixon," which will be shows at the Tribeca Film Festival, beginning Wednesday, April 13. (Steve Dietl/Bleecker Street via AP)

    First look review
    Elvis & Nixon review: Michael Shannon resurrects the King

  • Michael Shannon: ‘I guess there’s something uneasy about me. I’m definitely in touch with uneasiness.’

    Michael Shannon: ‘Actors are just models nowadays. Going to the Oscars is like going to the prom’

January 2015

  • Sky Ferreira Spendour in the Grass

    Sky Ferreira scores role in forthcoming Elvis and Nixon film

    Starring Kevin Spacey as Nixon and Michael Shannon as Elvis, the alt-pop singer lands her first major role in the 1970s flick

November 2014

  • Richard Nixon meets Elvis Presley on 21 December 1970.

    Michael Shannon and Kevin Spacey to play Elvis and Nixon

    Script by former actor Cary Elwes explores 1970 meeting during which Presley gave Nixon a gun and asked to be made an agent-at-large in drugs and narcotics bureau

December 2012

  • Elvis with Nixon

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 3 December 1986: How Elvis won his anti-drugs badge from Nixon

    Originally published in the Guardian on 3 December 1986: In spite of his best efforts, Richard Nixon's presidential documents are finally made public

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