The Exorcist review – Friedkin’s head-swivelling horror is still diabolically inspired
The 50th anniversary extended director’s cut of the 1973 tale of teenage possession still shocks
December 2022
Mike Hodges: a masterpiece creator as comfortable with gritty crime as with zany sci-fi
Peter Bradshaw
With films as varied as Get Carter, Flash Gordon and Croupier to his name, Hodges was a great social commentator as well as a wonderful storyteller
June 2022
Minority Report at 20: Cruise and Spielberg test their limits in top-tier thriller
The director and star both played with their images in a knotty and exciting adaptation of Philip K Dick’s prescient short story
February 2022
Echoes of the Past review – Max von Sydow’s final film is coda to a Nazi atrocity
Kalavryta was a real war crime committed in Greece, but this fictional drama – featuring von Sydow in his last film role – fails to deliver much justice
September 2021
Dune review – David Lynch’s intergalactic epic shoots for the moon
There are moments of dreamlike brilliance in this extravagant fable of imperialism – provided you can stay awake to see them
July 2020
Flash Gordon review – bizarre expressionist superhero panto
With echoes of The Wizard of Oz and Carry On movies, Mike Hodges’ vintage intergalactic fable delivers mayhem, madness and eye-frazzling colour
March 2020
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Streaming: curate your own Max von Sydow season
Brief letters
Making a note of a treasonable offence
Week in geek
Max von Sydow could transform the trashiest pulp fantasy flick into a cultural touchstone
Max von Sydow: an aristocrat of cinema who made me weep
Max von Sydow obituary
Max von Sydow, star of The Exorcist and The Seventh Seal, dies aged 90
The Seventh Seal to The Exorcist: Max von Sydow – a life in pictures
February 2018
The Touch review – Bergman's engrossing English-language debut
An extramarital affair, Elliott Gould and passionate letter-writing – could Ingmar Bergman’s little-seen 1971 film get any more 70s?
December 2015
Tour de force, say fans as Star Wars franchise stirs after 10 years
As the most anticipated film of the year begins its global rollout, fans and industry unite in praise of The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Force Awakens in-depth fan review: 'so much to obsess over'
Jordan Hoffman: As a self-confessed veteran of the Nerd Wars, I admit the new Star Wars may not display undiluted originality, but there’s so much to obsess over
Readers suggest the 10 best …
Readers suggest the 10 best actor transformations
Last week we brought you our 10 best transformations by actors in film. Here you suggest who should have made the list.
October 2015
TV and radio blog
Game of Thrones season six: all the spoilers we know so far
All the Game Of Thrones rumours, casting news, and speculation about dead characters who might be alive in the next season in a spoiler-filled roundup
September 2015
Max von Sydow 'plays character named Lor San Tekka' in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
If confirmed, rumour about Swedish actor would complete identities of major cast members of JJ Abrams’s highly anticipated new Star Wars film
August 2015
Max von Sydow joins Game of Thrones
The latest star slated to join the GoT cast, the screen veteran will play supernatural character, the Three-Eyed Raven
