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King Kong

April 2024

  • Illustration by David Foldvari of a broken King Kong statue.

    Joe Lycett edits Observer New Review
    I value Brummie art, but who else does?

    Stewart Lee
    Only in Birmingham could a statue of King Kong be lost twice. The city’s relationship with its cultural history is complicated

September 2023

  • Dan Gardner photographed at a movie theatre in Asheville, North Carolina, September 2023.

    Dan Gardner wanted to know when to go to the loo during films – so he built an app

    The developer of RunPee, the app that tells cinemagoers the best time to take a loo break, on what makes a good ‘peetime’ and how the program helped him meet his wife

April 2023

  • King Kong film, 1933.

    From the Guardian archive
    King Kong: ‘the film caters for all tastes’ – archive, 1933

    12 April 1933: There are more thrills than have been manufactured for the screen since speech came to it

May 2022

  • Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Laura Dern and Sam Neill in Jurassic Park

    Ranked
    The top 20 dinosaur movies – rrraaaanked!

    With Jurassic World Dominion out next month, we run through the best prehistoric pictures. You know what’s No 1 – or do you?

March 2021

  • Millie Bobby Brown at the 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on January 19, 2020, in Los Angeles.

    How Millie Bobby Brown used her superpowers

    The Stranger Things star is still in her teens, but has moved beyond new kid on the block to be a Hollywood power broker

October 2018

  • Christiani Pitts as Ann Darrow with King Kong.

    Broadway and the beast: King Kong takes to the New York stage

    In an ambitious new production, a 20ft beast is transported to Broadway and the team behind it talks about how they updated the classic story

August 2017

  • Poster for the original 1963 King Kong vs Godzilla.

    Week in geek
    Godzilla vs Kong: whoever wins Hollywood's monster mashup, we all lose

    Adam Wingard has promised a definitive victor when the giant beasties go at it in 2020. But the history of ‘versus’ movies suggest that, irrespective of who triumphs, audiences will feel short-changed

July 2017

  • Naomi Watts

    Naomi Watts: ‘My soul was being destroyed’

    At 32, she was unhireable. At 48, she is unmissable. The Gypsy star talks lucky breaks, bad reviews and being in therapy

April 2017

  • Godzilla 3D (2014) film still

    Apes, vampires or giant crabs: which movie apocalypse would you prefer?

  • Edgar Wallace, 1931.

    From the Guardian archive
    Edgar Wallace’s last play reviewed – archive, 1933

March 2017

  • Tom Hiddleston in Kong: Skull Island

    Kong: Skull Island review – only de-evolution can explain this zestless mashup

    Tom Hiddleston’s talents are lost in this jumbled jungle caper that repeatedly indulges in anti-climax and silliness

July 2016

  • John Goodman and Corey Hawkins

    Deadpan John Goodman is king of Kong: Skull Island Comic-Con panel

    Star discusses behaviour of title character – whose real name is ‘Leo’– and Eddie Redmayne dishes out wands at Fantastic Beasts Potter panel

December 2015

  • Jonathan Cavendish and Andrew Serkis

    Andy Serkis and the marvel of ‘performance capture’

    As Gollum and King Kong, Andy Serkis showed what could be done with film’s cutting-edge technology. But, as he tells Robert McCrum, we haven’t seen anything yet

July 2015

  • JK Simmons and Michael Keaton

    Michael Keaton and JK Simmons swing free of King Kong sequel

    Scheduling conflicts blamed for key duo’s departure from latest big budget Hollywood monster epic Kong: Skull Island, which will revisit home of giant ape

June 2015

  • The Land Before Time

    Dinosaurs in film - in pictures

    Hollywood’s first big dinosaur movie, The Lost World, was released 90 years ago. Jurassic World has just hit the big screen. Two great reasons for us to pay homage to our favourite clay, rubber and computer-generated prehistoric creatures and the pioneers who created them

January 2015

  • Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz

    Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Wizard of Oz is most influential Hollywood film

    Judy Garland’s 1939 musical tops academic study’s list of films of cultural significance, with Star Wars in second and Psycho in third

September 2014

  • Tom Hiddleston

    Tom Hiddleston to swing on to King Kong 'origins' film Skull Island

    British actor popular from Thor and Avengers movies to take key role in giant-ape yarn, while Jordan Vogt-Roberts takes on directing duties

July 2014

  • Joe Cornish at a photo call for Attack the Block in 2011

    Joe Cornish offered director's chair for King Kong prequel Skull Island

  • KING KONG (EDITORIAL USE ONLY).

    A look back
    From the Observer archive 11 July 1976: King Kong dogged by costly mishaps

December 2005

  • Kong is King of New York

    Peter Jackson's gargantuan remake of King Kong made traffic come to a standstill in Times Square for the film's world premiere last night.

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