Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio co-director Mark Gustafson dies aged 64
Del Toro describes Gustafson – who worked on Fantastic Mr Fox and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas – as a ‘pillar of stop-motion animation’
September 2023
‘Chilling’: Ariana Grande, Amanda Gorman and others sign letter against book bans
Letter, spearheaded by Reading Rainbow’s LeVar Burton, includes 175 signatories calling on Hollywood to fight bans in US schools
June 2023
The Guardian view on Spider-Man’s multiverse: it is wokeness in action
Editorial: Resolving the conflicts about who we are may be how superheroes grow up in the movies
December 2022
Are you bored yet?
Are you bored yet? Five brilliant films to stream right now – and not one of them is The Great Escape
Observer critics' review of 2022
Film: Mark Kermode’s 10 best of 2022
TV tonight
TV tonight: Kate Winslet and her daughter Mia Threapleton star in agonising drama
The seven best films to watch on TV this week
Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio to Cow: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
November 2022
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio review – a superbly strange stop-motion animation
Pinocchio review – Guillermo del Toro’s dark, sombre riff on the Disney-sweet fairytale
October 2022
TV review
Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities review – the horror series that’s perfect pre-Halloween viewing
The seven best shows to stream this week
Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities to The Devil’s Hour: the seven best shows to stream this week
September 2022
Strong women, Weinstein and UK-wide screenings: London film festival 2022 lineup thinks big
Matthew Warchus’s Matilda will open this year’s festival, which foregrounds stories of female collectivity and has simultaneous screenings nationwide
June 2022
Best culture of 2022 so far
The best films of 2022 so far
Tilda Swinton aces Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s dreamy fable, director Clio Barnard’s forbidden affair and Catherine Clinch in The Quiet Girl rank in the pick of this year’s films
March 2022
Best picture Oscar hustings
Why Nightmare Alley should win the best picture Oscar
Clapping fatigue, Covid smooches and sprayed canapés: inside the Oscar nominees luncheon
January 2022
Nightmare Alley review – a neo-noir knockout from Guillermo del Toro
Bradley Cooper plays a carnival conman drawn into a dark underworld in this dazzling drama from the Mexican director
Nightmare Alley review – Guillermo del Toro’s fairground of fear is a class act
Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett lead us into the sleazy world of carnivals, with gruesomely enjoyable performances and freaky twists
Guillermo Del Toro: ‘I saw real corpses when I was growing up in Mexico’
‘I don’t think we should talk about me’: a visit to David Strathairn’s own Nightmare Alley
Today in Focus
Culture 2022: what to watch, read and listen to this year
