The Beekeeper review – Jason Statham juggles honey, hives and nonstop homicide
The Beekeeper review – Jason Statham’s John Wick is serviceable schlock
May 2023
Inland Empire review – David Lynch’s fascinatingly unwholesome altered-states horror
A supernatural mystery thriller about a ‘cursed’ film production - with the word “mystery” in 72-point bold
September 2022
Poetic justice: WB Yeats’s time in London to be celebrated at last
Years of campaigning will come to fruition this week with the unveiling of a sculpture in Bedford Park to the great writer
May 2022
TV review
The Pentaverate review – Mike Myers is back, and he’s still an accomplished idiot
The Austin Powers star plays almost every character in this sweet, silly, charmingly harmless comedy about a secret society – when he’s not joined by the likes of Rob Lowe and Jennifer Saunders
January 2022
The Guardian picture essay
Behind the scenes of Munich: The Edge of War – in pictures
Guardian photographer Sarah Lee describes her experience as a stills photographer on the set of the joint British-German Netflix production starring Jeremy Irons
Munich: The Edge of War review – handsome if muted take on Robert Harris’s spy thriller
Jeremy Irons as Neville Chamberlain leads this Netflix adaptation of the novelist’s conspiracy story set on the eve of the second world war
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Munich: The Edge of War review – an elegant what-if twist on wartime history
Jeremy Irons is on top form as Neville Chamberlain in a Robert Harris adaptation that melds fact with enjoyable fiction
December 2021
‘Chamberlain was a great man’: why has the PM fooled by Hitler been recast as a hero in new film Munich?
He is seen as the appeaser who fell for Hitler’s lies. But was Chamberlain scapegoated? Writer Robert Harris and actor Jeremy Irons discuss taking on history with their controversial new film
November 2021
Mark Kermode's film of the week
House of Gucci review – Lady Gaga steers a steely path through the madness
Gaga rules in Ridley Scott’s at times ridiculous drama based on the true-life sagas of the Italian fashion dynasty
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
House of Gucci review – Lady Gaga murders in style in true-crime fashion house drama
Ridley Scott’s pantomimey soap entertainingly tracks fractures in the fashion world as Patrizia Reggiano plots to kill her ex, Maurizio Gucci
Welcome to the House of Gucci: Lady Gaga film premieres in London – in pictures
Lady Gaga, Salma Hayek, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons and Adam Driver dressed up for the premiere of Ridley Scott’s true-crime fashion biopic in Leicester Square
May 2021
How we made
‘We even performed it in front of the pope!’ – how we made Godspell
‘Religious groups didn’t like Jesus wearing a Superman shirt or the lack of a resurrection. So we told them the curtain call was the resurrection – when Jesus runs on and takes a bow’
March 2021
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Zack Snyder's Justice League review – four hours of geek-pleasing grandeur
Affleck and Cavill are as insipid as ever but this new cut adds operatic colour to vapid original – and a bold new ending
April 2020
Lockdown culture
All alone online: Iggy Pop and Jeremy Irons lead mass Ancient Mariner reading
Streaming daily, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 2020 incarnation also features Marianne Faithfull and Tilda Swinton as readers, set against sound and fine art
November 2019
Reading group
The French Lieutenant’s Woman: how did a good book make such a bad film?
John Fowles’s novel drew some of Hollywood’s finest for its adaptation, but even Meryl Streep couldn’t save it. Why?
October 2019
TV tonight
TV tonight: superhero caper meets social commentary in Watchmen
Jeremy Irons and Regina King star in a thrilling comic book adaptation. Plus: Panorama examines frivolous fund managers. Here’s what to watch this evening
June 2019
Keanu Reeves supports Rome cinema collective attacked by far right
'An obsessive, mischievous genius': actors pay tribute to Franco Zeffirelli
February 2018
First look review
Red Sparrow review – perverse Jennifer Lawrence thriller offers mixed pleasures
The Oscar-winning actor stars as a seductive assassin in a strange, yet often flatly directed, film that boasts surprisingly extreme sex and violence but also a wealth of bad accents
