Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire review – time to consign franchise to the spirit realm
Despite some decent gags there’s very little life left in the tired franchise – it feels like it’s run its course and it’s time to think of something new
April 2023
Paul Rudd watches Wrexham win promotion after pre-match pint with fans
TV review
Big Beasts review – nothing on Earth is more compelling than this tiger footage
February 2023
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania review – mini Paul Rudd faces a threequel villain
Rudd returns in his incredible shrinking suit to meet Kang the Conqueror and a teen sucked into the subatomic Quantum Realm, but familiar joys are absent
January 2023
The funniest things on the internet
Ben Stevenson: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
Week in geek
Ant-Man and the Wasp: can Marvel’s tiniest heroes carry the whole franchise?
July 2022
‘You’re the coolest kid’: Paul Rudd writes letter to bullied schoolboy
Ant-Man actor befriends Brody Ridder of Colorado, whose classmates refused to sign his yearbook
December 2021
Saturday Night Live recap
Saturday Night Live: Tom Hanks helps out Paul Rudd in Omicron episode
Paul Rudd Saturday Night Live to film without audience amid Omicron surge
November 2021
Pass notes
Fit fiftysomethings: why the hot new sex symbols are moreish middle-aged men
Ghostbusters: Afterlife review – defanged retread that is lacking in spirit and laughs
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: The Shrink Next Door; Inside the Care Crisis With Ed Balls; Beat the Devil; The Tower
TV review
The Shrink Next Door review – Paul Rudd traps Will Ferrell in a cult of two
Do you fancy Paul Rudd? You’re either a sociopath or a liar if you say no
Stuart Heritage
‘I had to watch it with my therapist’: when real-life horrors get turned into TV
October 2021
First look review
Ghostbusters: Afterlife review – a slimy, stinking corpse of a sequel
Jason Reitman takes over his father’s franchise and immediately tanks it with a tonally misjudged blend of fan service and bizarrely played-straight spectacle
November 2020
Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
Before they were famous, part two: stars' early stage roles – in pictures
Tristram Kenton’s archive reveals more performers heading for the big time, including Rachel Weisz, Idris Elba, Daniel Kaluuya, Felicity Jones and more
September 2020
Paul Rudd urges 'fellow millennials' to mask up in coronavirus safety video
The Hollywood actor’s much-viewed public service announcement in character urges young New Yorkers to heed Covid-19 dangers
January 2020
Golden Globes 2020: who will win – and who should win – the TV categories
Streaming giants and Hollywood heavyweights (Reese! Meryl!) go head-to-head for the decade’s first TV prizes
October 2019
TV review
Living With Yourself review – are two Paul Rudds better than one?
Rudd is doubly charming in this cloning comedy-drama on Netflix, which riffs on identity, self-sabotage and the lives we wish we were leading
