Hard Miles review – Matthew Modine stars in scenic cycling cliche-fest
A group of young delinquents are steered on a different path in RJ Daniel Hanna’s tirelessly formulaic take on a true story
May 2024
Hard Miles review – Matthew Modine takes troubled teens on a 700-mile cycle marathon
Modine plays amateur cyclist and teacher Greg Townsend, leading troubled teenagers on a gruelling journey across Colorado in a real-life-inspired drama
January 2023
The Q&A
Matthew Modine: ‘It’s fascinating watching the sack of flesh I live in showing signs of wear’
The actor on painful memories, wanting to read Dante’s Inferno in Italian, and why Trump and Putin are the same person
November 2022
Matthew Modine: ‘I didn’t want to do Stranger Things but the Duffer Brothers kept ringing me up’
The actor and environmentalist on playing Atticus Finch, the character’s importance today, and why he dyed his hair white for Stranger Things
March 2021
Teenage kicks
Matthew Modine's teenage obsessions: ‘In Utah, the Beatles were devil music’
Backtrace review – Sylvester Stallone memory-loss heist caper is one to forget
The seventh entry in the franchise, with its weird cultists, takes a few original steps off the well-beaten hillbilly horror path
September 2020
Miss Virginia review – shallow biopic fails to do its subject justice
Uzo Aduba has all the talent to play activist Virginia Walden gets but is let down a script uninterested in the issues it depicts
May 2020
My streaming gem
'My favourite forgotten film' – you recommend your best streaming gems
As our writers continue to highlight under-seen films available to stream, you’ve replied with your favourites, ranging from sci-fi to action to comedy
August 2017
How we made
How we made Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket
‘Instead of Vietnam, we went to Beckton gasworks. All we had to do was put signs on it and blow it up’
July 2017
47 Metres Down review – deliciously dumb horror
A woman goes diving with sharks to impress her ex in this trashy but pleasurable B-movie
August 2016
Nostalgic nightmares: how Netflix made Stranger Things a watercooler smash
While the distribution method is state-of-the-art, the Duffer brothers’ supernatural series is one of many harking back to the 80s
July 2016
Stranger Things review – a spooky shot of 80s nostalgia straight to your heart
From the walkie-talkies to Winona Ryder herself, the new Netflix show is fun, creepy – and couldn’t be more of a retro-fest if it had neon eyeshadow or a glowing fingertip
June 2015
Brian Moylan's having an episode
Proof: TNT's life-after-death procedural is stiffer than a corpse
No matter how you might feel about the afterlife, this concoction of ghost stories and pseudoscience barely makes for an interesting thought experiment
April 2014
Wrinkles review – 'unsentimental evocation of old age'
This Spanish animation, with voices from Martin Sheen and Matthew Modine, is intelligent and entertaining, writes Jonathan Romney
June 2010
Reel history
Full Metal Jacket: history unzipped
Alex von Tunzelmann
Stanley Kubrick's grisly Vietnam drama exposes the impact of the Tet Offensive
May 2006
Tinseltown's rainbow warrior
Matthew Modine may be famous for his roles in Birdy and Full Metal Jacket, but, he tells John Harris, he'd rather be known as the man who slashed Hollywood's paper consumption.
March 2006
Is there a doctor in the house?
Theatre: A star-studded cast get the Resurrection Blues while in Embers, Jeremy Irons and Patrick Malahide fail to glow, says Susannah Clapp.
April 2000
Field of conflict
Philip French: a vital, agitated movie, with a vast range of characters. It's complex without being subtle and keeps up a constant barrage of incident and information.
