BlackBerry and Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Thrills abound in a smart, funny tale of mobile phone innovation, while Zack Snyder’s space opera returns for an epic battle
March 2022
Alex Honnold: ‘My new film is almost too much for some people’
The star of Free Solo is back with a new series featuring terrifying climbs – this time using virtual reality
October 2021
Dierdre Wolownick, mother of Alex Honnold, makes history with El Capitan climb
This is the second time the 70-year-old made the journey, this time breaking her previous record in honor of her birthday
February 2020
My best shot
Free Solo climbing star Alex Honnold falling – Keith Ladzinski's best photograph
‘Alex was on vacation in Greece – but even on vacation, he still climbs. Fortunately, unlike in the film Free Solo, he’s on a rope here’
March 2019
TV tonight
Sunday's best TV: Free Solo; Call the Midwife; Traitors
Catch the Oscar-winning documentary about the man who scales rock-faces with no rope. Plus: the sisters of Poplar bid farewell for another series – and tension piles up in the ace spy thriller
February 2019
‘It's sort of the extreme’: Free Solo’s Alex Honnold on rock-climbing without ropes
Oscar winners 2019: complete list
Smooches, shocks and funny bunnies: the Oscars 2019 – in pictures
Oscars 2019 verdict: lovely surprises can't compensate for shock horrors
Full list of nominations for the 2019 Oscars
Human spirit climbs to another level in Free Solo
The full list of winners at the 2019 Bafta film awards
Baftas 2019: what should win – and what will win
January 2019
Observer New Review Q&A
Alex Honnold, free climber: ‘There are many places where you can fall to your death’
The US rock climber on making the Oscar-nominated documentary Free Solo, a dizzying account of his unaided ascent of El Capitan in 2017
Oscar nominations 2019: Roma and The Favourite deserve acclaim, but no female directors is woeful
The Academy consensus has produced two blue chip frontrunners, but passed over some exceptional films directed by women in the process
The full list of nominations for the Baftas 2019
From The Favourite to Bohemian Rhapsody, the full list of films up for a gong at this year’s leading British film awards
December 2018
Free Solo review – jaw-dropping high jinks on a 3,000ft rock face
Top US films 2018
The 50 best movies of 2018 in the US: the full list
September 2018
On my radar
On my radar: Geoff Dyer’s cultural highlights
No ropes attached: behind two heart-racing free climbing documentaries
