Sun, sea and flings: our writers on their favorite summertime movies
From Do the Right Thing to Now and Then, Guardian writers pick the film that reminds them most of the warmest months
August 2021
Brief letters
Honest, Sir, it wasn’t me 😇
Brief letters: School forms | Emojis | NHS ranking | Actors with chemistry
July 2021
Notebook
How a holiday away from it all turned into a Hitchcockian nightmare
Rachel Cooke
Miles from civilisation, our cottage became the target of an aerial bombardment – by rooks
November 2020
Radio play goes behind the scenes of 1967 dinner that challenged America
All-star cast to recreate making of the Sidney Poitier mixed-race marriage drama Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Ranked
Katharine Hepburn’s 20 best films – ranked!
With the Hollywood legend’s classic romcom The Philadelphia Story turning 80 next month, here is our critic’s rundown of her finest performances
Lockdown culture
Culture to cheer you up during the second lockdown: part two
Following yesterday’s roundup of music, games, books, TV, dance and visual art, our critics continue their picks of culture to lift the spirits during tough times
April 2020
The top 25 most compelling Hollywood autobiographies – ranked!
Inspiring, addictive and occasionally gasp-worthy – to mark the publication of Woody Allen’s Apropos of Nothing, we arrange the best Tinseltown memoirs in order of excellence
October 2019
Scotty Bowers, ‘male madame to the stars’, dies aged 96
Bowers claimed to have slept his way through golden-age Hollywood while helping stars hide and indulge their true sexual natures
July 2019
Faye Dunaway fired from Broadway-bound play Tea at Five
Oscar winner has been removed from a production of a one-woman show where she played Katharine Hepburn
August 2018
Hollywood's secret history: Scotty Bowers on sex and stars in the Golden Era
A new documentary reworks the memoir of Bowers, who boasts he paired Cary Grant with Rock Hudson and Katharine Hepburn with 150 brunettes – and slept with so many actors he didn’t have time to see their films
December 2017
Anthony Harvey obituary
British film director who vied with Hollywood greats and worked with Katharine Hepburn on The Lion in Winter
November 2017
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
DVD reviews: Baby Driver, Cars 3, Office Christmas Party and more
Edgar Wright’s boy racer film is all speed and no substance, while The Philadelphia Story shows that Hollywood comedies once valued both sexes
February 2017
Forget La La Land, the real goddesses of the silver screen had substance as well as style
The era was no feminist paradise for women, but stars such as Katharine Hepburn and Barbara Stanwyck proved attractive women could also be demanding and intelligent
October 2016
From the Guardian archive
Broadway crash landing for Katharine Hepburn – archive
Notebook
Porn in schools? No – what students need is James Stewart
Peter Bradshaw
June 2016
Stanley Kubrick ruined my childhood: my mum, the Hollywood publicist
Simon Booker recalls his unconventional upbringing with his mother who was a glamorous film publicist in the Mad Men era
September 2015
Readers recommend
Readers recommend: songs about being a man or woman
Hey baby ... it’s time to define what gender means through the medium of music. Slip us your suggestions, and in title, lyrics or style, it might be a sexy week, says Peter Kimpton
August 2015
Katharine Hepburn's Hollywood home for sale – in pictures
A 1920s hacienda in Los Angeles, once home to Katherine Hepburn and Boris Karloff is up for sale
May 2015
Reel history
Mary of Scotland: Katharine Hepburn in Tudor romance with inaccurate kilts
Katharine Hepburn’s real-life affair with director John Ford adds extra spice to this tale of a fiery proto-feminist queen’s love for the Earl of Bothwell
February 2015
The Philadelphia Story review – fun and wit rise like champagne bubbles
The rerelease of this utterly beguiling comedy reminds us how extraordinary Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart really were
