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
September 2022
Ranked
Bill Murray’s 20 best performances – ranked!
As the actor swigs with Zac Efron and Russell Crowe in new comedy The Greatest Beer Run Ever – and celebrates his 72nd birthday – we rate Murray’s finest work
November 2021
Who ya gonna call? Ivan and Jason Reitman on resurrecting Ghostbusters together
Ghostbusters: Afterlife review – defanged retread that is lacking in spirit and laughs
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?
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
February 2021
TV tonight
TV tonight: Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar open another cold case
The fourth series of Unforgotten gets under way. Plus: MasterChef Australia Junior welcomes a new brigade. Here’s what the watch this evening
November 2020
Ranked
Melissa McCarthy's 20 best films – ranked!
With the actor’s new release, Superintelligence, seeing her try to save the world, here’s a look at the films that made her a comedy star
October 2019
Paul Feig: 'Male humour always devolves into homophobia and name-calling'
The director adores working with women – but did the all-female Ghostbusters furore change that? Not a bit, he says
January 2019
The Q&A
Melissa McCarthy: ‘Something extinct I’d like to bring back to life? Democracy’
Who ya gonna call? Ivan Reitman sends son Jason to direct Ghostbusters 3
December 2018
Mary Poppins, The BFG and Spectre: your complete Christmas film guide
The best festive films, from the classic The Grand Budapest Hotel, to modern favourites such as Up and Brooklyn, plus the creepy baby from Twilight and everything in between
February 2018
Film blog
Claws out: how Black Panther fought off a toxic Ghostbusters-style online campaign
The pushback against an attempt to lower the superhero movie’s score on Rotten Tomatoes has show that culture war’s latest battleground is still raging
September 2017
Lord of the Flies to Ocean’s Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender
The plan for an all-girls remake of the dystopian 1960s classic is just one of many new projects reimagining hit films with female leads
June 2017
Ghosts, liberated women and Morgan Freeman: the films banned for odd reasons
Wonder Woman is the latest blockbuster to fall foul of the censors. From Borat to Sex and the City 2, here are some of the more peculiar film bans
March 2017
Chris Addison to direct gender-swap Dirty Rotten Scoundrels remake
The Thick of It actor to make big-screen directorial debut with Nasty Women, which stars Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson as con artists
January 2017
Film blog
Make mine a Darth Vader burger! The weirdest edible movie tie-ins
A Harry Potter-themed restaurant has opened in Brooklyn, following a grand tradition that includes the gut-busting Hobbit breakfast, Deadpool cocktails and a naked Daniel Craig ice lolly
December 2016
Best culture 2016
Beyoncé to Black Mirror; the culture that defines 2016
How better to make sense of this turbulent year than through the art and literature it has produced? Our critics choose the works that sum up the last 12 months
November 2016
Too many sequels, too much money: why did so many comedies flop in 2016?
Studios trying to create franchises out of average originals, market tested laughs and a lack of originality made this year’s biggest comedies stilted and boring
