The Iron Claw to Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Jeremy Allen White and Zac Efron are terrific in a bone-breaking wrestling biopic, and Eddie Murphy resurrects the wisecracking Axel Foley!
May 2023
Scarlett Johansson: losing Gravity role to Sandra Bullock made me feel hopeless
In-depth interview reveals that rejections for major roles made the actor reconsider her job, and gives details about her legal battle with Disney over Black Widow
February 2023
The seven best films to watch on TV this week
The Strays to Kill List: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Ashley Madekwe heads up a smart, snappy psychological thriller about escaping a murky past, while Ben Wheatley’s visceral film about a hitman really packs a punch
March 2020
Film blog
From Fight Club to Brief Encounter: how self-isolation would change classic films
It’s now difficult to watch movies without worrying about the two-metre rule – here are the retrospective plot changes required to mean old movies pass muster
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
The 100 best films of the 21st century
Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000
March 2018
My favourite film decade
From Boyhood to Get Out – why the 2010s is my favourite film decade
The last seven years has given us career bests from visionary veterans and a horde of hungry up-and-comers ready to drag Hollywood into modernity. The death of cinema? We’ve never had it so good
July 2017
Film blog
All by myself: how the greatest solo film performances worked their magic
With Anne Hathaway set to star in a film that she will carry on her own, we ask: what can she learn from previous high points of single-actor shows
November 2016
Cosmic emotions: why Arrival and Passengers feel like a new wave of sci-fi
Human relationships are usually an alien concept in sci-fi films. But two new movies show the genre is journeying into the realms of feelings, romance – and even sex
July 2016
What do astronauts watch in space? You don't want to know
From a sci-fi horror masterpiece to an intergalactic disaster flick, movies shown to astronauts on the International Space Station may surprise you
February 2016
In a year of #OscarsSoWhite, a Mexican film-maker quietly dominates the Academy Awards
With The Revenant’s Alejandro González Iñárritu aiming to make it two Oscars in a row, he is leading a small but successful group of Latino film-makers in Hollywood
November 2015
Talk to me: a conversation special
Chris Hadfield meets Randall Munroe: ‘Are we alone in the universe?'
The spaceman and the cartoonist
October 2015
Box office analysis: US
The Martian on course for a Gravity-defying record at US box office
Ridley Scott’s film eyeing all-time October box-office opening mark set by Alfonso Cuarón’s 2013 Oscar-winner, but Robert Zemeckis’ The Walk stumbles on Imax-focused limited release
August 2015
Venice film festival takes on Everest as it regains ground lost to younger rivals
Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley’s mountaineering thriller will open this year’s oldest surviving film festival, which is learning fast how to beat off competition from the likes of Toronto and Telluride
February 2015
Alejandro González Iñárritu wins best director Oscar for Birdman
Judge downs Gravity lawsuit from bestselling author Tess Gerritsen
November 2014
Film blog
Settling a score: movie soundtracks that should be removed
The producers of Gravity have released a version with no music at all. It could help. Which films do you think need better soundscapes, asks Stuart Heritage
Silent space: new version of Gravity to be released minus score
Alfonso Cuarón’s thriller, which starred Sandra Bullock, will be released on Blu-ray with the option to experience Dr Ryan Stone’s spacewalk with a realistic soundtrack from the vacuum of space
Film blog
Gravity: my most overrated film
Film blog
The science of Interstellar: astrophysics, but not as we know it
Film blog
Good ol' future boys: Interstellar and sci-fi's obsession with Americana
