Joy for Pixar as Inside Out 2 smashes expectations – and box office records
Inside Out 2 review – an inventive and moving return to form for Pixar
‘It always destroys me’: our writers on their saddest movie deaths
Inside Out 2 review – Pixar returns to emotional Mission Control for Riley’s teen years
August 2022
All work and no play: why the cartoon world needs to stop copying the corporate
According to animated movies, all human life is controlled by monsters or rabbits or leprechauns diligently working a 9 to 5 in a metaphysical office complex – where’s the fun in that?
February 2022
The reader interview
Post your questions for Amy Poehler
The comic actor has turned director of recent Sundance hit, Lucy and Desi, a documentary on I Love Lucy’s Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Questions, please!
December 2019
Richard Kind: 'I’m a team player, but I also want to win'
The comedy veteran – a star of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Spin City and A Serious Man – is an essential ensemble player. He talks about not taking centre stage and his upcoming role as Rudy Guiliani
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
January 2018
Ranked
Every Pixar film ever made - Ranked!
It’s the studio that rewrote the rules of animation, and it hasn’t let up since. So which is the best – and worst – of Pixar’s 19 movies? We find out in Ranked, our new weekly series
June 2017
Week in geek
Can Coco breathe new life into Pixar – and make audiences tackle death?
Disney’s animation studio has struggled to replicate the success of its golden decade that ended in 2012. Can a tale inspired by Mexico’s Day of the Dead excite audiences?
June 2016
Week in geek
Finding Dory to Cars 2: Pixar's greatest hits and misses
Pixar redrew the rules of animation with its groundbreaking CGI – and the gorgeous visuals are matched by lovable characters and thrilling storytelling
February 2016
Film blog
Spotlight and The Revenant deserve their Oscars – but where were Carol's?
On balance, the Academy gave its prizes to the right people, but it’s baffling that the Cate Blanchett-starring lesbian romance was completely shut out
Oscars 2016: full list of Academy Award nominations
All the nominations for this year’s Academy Awards, which take place at the Dolby theatre in Hollywood on 28 FebruaryMore on Oscars 2016
Inside Out director Pete Docter: 'We wanted to make sure Riley was not a robot'
The director of the Pixar film tipped to win the best animation Oscar on the emotions that didn’t make the cut – including Schadenfreude clad in lederhosen
January 2016
Film blog
Oscars 2016: The Revenant deserves to own awards season – less so Mad Max and The Martian
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s brutal survival story merits its place at the head of the nomination count, but some of this year’s choices are puzzling
Oscar nominations 2016: the snubs, surprises and sure things – in pictures
The nominations for the 2016 Oscars were announced this afternoon. Here we run down the films nominated, the unexpected entries and those film-makers who might justifiably feel snubbed
Oscar nominations 2016: The Revenant leads field, Mad Max in second place
Oscars 2016: what will lead the nominations and who will surprise?
And the Oscar goes to (or it should anyway)
December 2015
Week in geek
Week in geek's top five science-fiction and fantasy films of 2015
It was a middling year for superhero movies, but a storming one for dystopian science fiction and hyper-nostalgic space opera