Vodka at noon! Is Princess Margaret’s decadent lifestyle the antidote to Gregg Wallace’s joyless routine?
The royal’s life of long baths and four-course lunches is a dream compared with Wallace’s 5am wake-up and hours alone playing strategy games
December 2023
The Family Plan review – Mark Wahlberg and his abs forced to revive special forces past
Weirdly forgettable action caper sees the star’s glossy American family dream interrupted by his glossy former life in covert ops
August 2022
Me Time review – Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg’s confused Netflix comedy
There are some effective comic set pieces in this familiar buddy comedy, but tonal confusion and an unsure Kevin Hart distract
May 2022
Father Stu review – histrionic boxer-turned-priest drama
Father Stu review – renegade-turned-priest Mark Wahlberg blesses Catholic drama
April 2022
Ranked
Mark Wahlberg’s 20 best films – ranked!
From Transformers to Daddy’s Home, Marky Mark’s made some stinkers, so hopefully the actor will find redemption in Catholic drama Father Stu. And we’ll forgive him everything for Boogie Nights
February 2022
Father Stu: the Catholic drama aiming to redeem Mel Gibson and Mark Wahlberg
Uncharted review – Tom Holland game adaptation is action-movie by committee
And the winners aren’t: this year’s Oscarbait films the Academy shunned
Netflix’s 2022 preview trailer is a ghoulish nightmare of coerced A-listers
Stuart Heritage
June 2021
Infinite review – Mark Wahlberg reincarnation thriller is stuck in the past
A musty attempt to start a new franchise about people with the ability to remember past lives is a misfiring melange of other better movies
April 2021
Wahl Street: do we really need a Mark Wahlberg reality show?
In a new series based around the actor’s many businesses, bravado gets almost immediately, and only slightly, upturned by the Covid-19 pandemic
March 2021
Hear me out
Hear me out: why The Happening isn't a bad movie
The latest in our series of writers defending hated films is a plea to reconsider M Night Shyamalan’s human v nature thriller
January 2021
Hear me out
Hear me out: why Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes isn't a bad movie
The latest in our series of writers standing up for loathed films is an impassioned defence of the 2001 take on the 60s classic
September 2020
First look review
Joe Bell review – Mark Wahlberg affects in moving homophobia drama
Kate Winslet and Mark Wahlberg aim for Oscars at unusual Toronto film festival
August 2020
Dwayne Johnson tops Forbes list of world's highest-paid male actors
Netflix now accounts for quarter of all actors’ earnings as the Rock takes home biggest pay packet for second year running
July 2020
Toronto film festival announces line-up with Mark Wahlberg drama premiering
Halle Berry’s directorial debut also on programme but whether physical screenings will take place remains up in the air
March 2020
Mark Wahlberg: 'I was a little rough around the edges'
Spenser Confidential review – Mark Wahlberg crash lands on Netflix