‘It’s about valuing their audience’: why Ghostbusters called in a Muslim ‘cultural consultant’
The spooky comedy franchise may seem an unlikely place to find an ethnicity and faith adviser, but productions are increasingly aware of a duty to make sure communities are truthfully represented
March 2024
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire review – cut-and-paste copy of the original
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire review – time to consign franchise to the spirit realm
‘I’m still trying to recover’: Annie Potts on Ghostbusters, Toy Story – and the car crash that almost killed her
Who you gonna call? Meet the real ghostbusters
March 2023
Top 10s
From Ghostbusters and Aliens to Lego Star Wars: 10 great video games based on movies
As Oscars night approaches, we pick out some of the video game film tie-ins that don’t make you want to throw popcorn at your screen
Who ya gonna call? Ivan and Jason Reitman on resurrecting Ghostbusters together
July 2021
Week in geek
Has Ghostbusters: Afterlife forgotten it is supposed to be funny?
Teenagers take over in the latest reboot of the comedy franchise – but trailers suggest the mood will be more Stranger Things than laugh-out-loud slimefest. Are fans right to be spooked?
May 2021
Ranked
Sigourney Weaver’s 20 best films – ranked!
With her new film My New York Year released on 21 May, plus Ghostbusters: Afterlife and endless new Avatars in the offing, we sift through the career of Hollywood’s imperious, stylish powerhouse
April 2021
Week in geek
Can Ghostbusters: Afterlife unite fans of the original and the 2016 reboot?
With Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd set to return, nostalgia for the first film should be well served. But director Jason Reitman is also a fan of the all-female sequel
March 2021
Love is all around: the rise of the fan-made film documentary
From Ghostbusters to Flash Gordon to Troll 2, viewers are giving adulatory treatment to a growing heap of their film favourites. But can this nostalgia boom survive?
June 2020
Finn Wolfhard: ‘I have so much crazy energy’
Lockdown culture
The great 80s Zoom reunion! How Josh Gad lured film giants out of lockdown
February 2020
Rick Moranis to make Honey I Shrunk the Kids reboot after 23-year break
Canadian actor and comic who took time off from films will appear with Josh Gad in the comedy Shrunk
January 2020
Cleanin’ Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters review – slime time
The director and surviving stars revisit the groundbreaking supernatural comedy in an enjoyably geeky documentary
December 2019
Ghostbusters: Afterlife – first trailer for new supernatural comedy with Bill Murray
Long-awaited fourth instalment of the much-loved comedy, which is due to bring back stars of the original 1984 hit for cameo appearances
