Superman review – Christopher Reeve’s superhero origin movie still looks swell
Richard Donner’s 1978 event movie brought Hollywood grandeur, a great John Williams score and a gentlemanly hero quite unlike any other
August 2018
Margot Kidder's death ruled a suicide
Superman star’s daughter, Maggie McGuane, says coroner’s announcement is ‘huge relief’ while friends renew tribute to ‘a blazing energy’
May 2018
Margot Kidder obituary
Margot Kidder – a life in pictures
Margot Kidder: the Hollywood star who defied convention
Margot Kidder, Superman's Lois Lane, dies aged 69
July 2017
John Heard obituary
John Heard, star of Home Alone, Cutter's Way and The Sopranos, dies at 71
March 2016
Children's books
Lois Lane is far more than 'just' Superman's girlfriend
Lois Lane is a brave, smart, fearless, ambitious journalist who always goes after the story – and it’s time to put her famous love interest to one side argues teen author Gwenda Bond
September 2015
Brian De Palma: ‘We were fascinated by our different views on how to tell a story’
The director of Scarface and Carrie on the making of De Palma, a documentary about his career by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow
August 2014
Lois Lane to star in young adult novel
News: Fallout by Gwenda Bond, due next May, will put Superman's sidekick 'front and centre' as the story's hero
June 2014
Philip French's classic DVD
Sisters review – Philip French on Brian De Palma's Hitchcock-indebted 1973 classic
Brian De Palma's Sisters marks the arrival of a prodigious new stylist forging an original signature, writes Philip French
April 2014
What the superhero squeezes did next
Andrew Pulver: Margot Kidder was Lois Lane in Superman, Kim Basinger was Vicki Vale in Batman. But what happened afterwards to their careers, and those of other well-known love interests?
June 2011
Have Superman and Lois Lane reached the end of the road?
Fans divided as DC Comics co-publisher lets slip that the man of steel's 15-year marriage could be over
March 2011
Amy Adams to take a trip down Lois Lane
Oscar-nominated actor Amy Adams to star opposite Henry Cavill in Zack Snyder's forthcoming Superman film
February 2011
Film blog
Who should play Lois Lane in the new Superman film?
Stuart Heritage: Forget Henry Cavill's casting as the Man of Steel – the female lead in Zack Synder's reboot is a much more exciting prospect
June 2009
Anne Billson on film
Hollywood sister flicks
Anne Billson
Anne Billson: In Hollywood, sisters are rarely standalone characters; they're two halves of a whole, like the separated bits of a Best Friend necklace
February 2007
The lay of the land
A life in writing: Montana-based Thomas McGuane might seem to belong in a 'western' literary tradition, but his novels replace cowboys and Indians with the everyday anxieties of American life. Interview by Emma Brockes.
April 2005
The Amityville Horror
No kidding: Margot Kidder on Lois Lane and The Amityville Horror
