‘The daddy of them all’: readers on their favourite movie franchises
After Guardian writers picked their top big screen franchises of all time, from Alien to Toy Story, now you have had your say
November 2022
Jason Bourne isn’t a fictional CIA agent. He’s real, drunk and lives in Durham
Stuart Heritage
Surely, you thought, we’ve seen the last of the famed action star. You were wrong
September 2018
From Bond to ITV’s Strangers: why is everyone ‘fridging’?
Whether it’s Libby and Shannon in Lost or Julia Stiles’s character in Jason Bourne, the death of a female character is a common and problematic tool
April 2018
Bourne again: can Treadstone work without Jason Bourne?
A new TV pilot will attempt to carry on the series without its main character. Is it doomed to failure? Here are the reasons why it just might work
April 2017
Why we should learn to stop worrying and love the blockbuster franchise
Each summer brings with it plenty of critical scorn for big-budget sequels but what can they teach us about the passage of time and the sociopolitical climate?
January 2017
Choose life? Trainspotting’s realism hit a nerve, but we want escapism now
Catherine Shoard
Films used to make us face up to the real world – but today they allow us to avoid modernity and wallow in nostalgia
December 2016
Box office analysis: UK
Rogue One opens well in the UK – but not quite as well as Fantastic Beasts
Star Wars spin-off claims biggest opening of the year as rereleased James Stewart classic It’s a Wonderful Life crashes back into the festive chart
August 2016
Box office analysis: UK
Suicide Squad still supreme at the UK box office
Box office analysis: US
Suicide Squad blunders as Sausage Party makes a sizzling start at the US box office
This week's best culture
Five of the best... films out now in the UK
Notebook
Rebooting the blockbuster, who ya gonna call? Aristotle, actually
Natalie Haynes
Box office analysis: UK
Crime pays: DC's Suicide Squad tops UK box office with £11.25m
Box office analysis: UK
Finding Dory surfaces atop UK box office as Jason Bourne spies second
Film blog
Bourne again: why spy movies are still tapping into the same formula
