John Carpenter on horror classic The Thing: ‘It was an enormous failure and I got fired’
‘Audiences hated the ending. They wanted to know who the Thing was. But I don’t care. That’s how I wanted it’
November 2023
TV review
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters review – casting Kurt Russell was utterly inspired
This small-screen jaunt into the Monsterverse features plenty of Indiana Jones-style derring-do. But nothing is as brilliantly successful as the Hollywood star’s old-school charisma
March 2023
Screen play: our writers pick their favourite sports movies
To celebrate the release of Creed III, Guardian writers have made the case for why their favourite sports movie should also be yours
July 2022
Out of this world: Guardian writers on their favourite movies with aliens
To celebrate the release of Jordan Peele’s new UFO thriller Nope, critics have picked their top films about extra terrestrials
March 2022
Putin’s Hollywood pals – the stars who snuggled up to the Russian dictator
From Leonardo DiCaprio to Steven Seagal, Tinseltown’s biggest names were once happy to hang out with the invading president. Are they all now cringing? Not entirely
July 2021
Escape From New York at 40: John Carpenter rebelling against the system
The director’s rule-breaking action adventure saw him doing his own thing, whether Hollywood was willing to accept it or not
April 2020
My streaming gem
My streaming gem: why you should watch Breakdown
Continuing our series of writers recommending underseen films available to stream, a shoutout for a suspenseful Hitchcockian thriller from 1997
July 2019
Nepotism in the movies: it's time to call out the acting school of mum and dad
Caspar Salmon
If you’ve got famous parents, your chances in the film industry appear to improve exponentially. If we’re serious about equality, this has to change
December 2018
2019 in pop culture: from Adele’s 30 to ‘zapping’ your TV
If you thought Snake Plissken’s New York was a dangerous place...
Kevin McKenna
November 2018
The Christmas Chronicles review – Kurt Russell's Santa can't save Netflix turkey
The streaming giant is releasing a string of festive movies this year but their glossiest option is a shoddy sign of things to come
April 2017
Now you've seen it
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2: the tunes, the rows – discuss with spoilers
Did you spot the big twist coming? Did the music paper over narrative cracks? Has there ever been a more engaging all-CGI character than Baby Groot?
Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell and John Malkovich star in this explosive yet intelligent take on the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill
September 2016
Deepwater Horizon review – BP oil spill drama captures heroics and heartache
First look review
Deepwater Horizon review – Mark Wahlberg v BP in angry disaster movie
June 2016
Happy Days creator Garry Marshall on the Fonz's jump: 'Sharks were big then. It was after Jaws!'
The veteran director talks about the good times on Happy Days and the rotten tomatoes for his new film, Mother’s Day
March 2016
Trailer park
Deepwater Horizon: Mark Wahlberg in disaster movie trailer - video
The true story of the oil spill disaster of 2010 is given the disaster movie treatment by Battleship director Peter Berg
February 2016
Bone Tomahawk – a delectably nasty slow-burner
Kurt Russell stars in debut director S Craig Zahler’s radical take on the western
The Guardian Film Show
The Guardian film show: How to be Single, Freeheld, Bone Tomahawk and Chronic - audio reviews
The film team review this week’s big releases, including Rebel Wilson rabble-rousing as dating pro and Kurt Russell chasing cannibals across the American west
Bone Tomahawk review – a Western horror destined for cult status
Kurt Russell heads a posse in this pulpy twist on John Ford’s The Searchers which is hide-under-your-seat scary
