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Richard Linklater

July 2024

  • Glen Powell – in a dark green shirt the same colour as his blazer and with a slightly wavy fringe, a bit oiled and slicked back – grins in front of the cutoff letters "E" and "R" at the Twisters premiere in Los Angeles

    Glen Powell: meet the new Hollywood A-lister who can do heart-throb, goofball or action hero

    His good looks haven’t restricted Powell to the superhero universe. Now, after starring in an impressive variety of films, genres and roles, he’s finally attained star status

June 2024

  • Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse in Back to Black and Dev Patel in Monkey Man.

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  • A man and woman caress each others' faces on the dancefloor

    Bringing sexy back: how Hollywood suddenly got horny again

May 2024

  • Adria Arjona and Glen Powell in Hit Man.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Hit Man to Bones and All: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Richard Linklater’s romantic comedy sizzles with chemistry between Adria Arjona and Glen Powell, while Luca Guadagnino explores the cannibalistic impulses in the gripping horror with Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell
  • Adria Arjona and Glen Powell in Hit Man.

    Hit Man review – Glen Powell and Adria Arjona sizzle in Richard Linklater’s witty crime caper

    An undercover cop falls for the woman who’s hired him to kill her abusive husband in the director’s hugely enjoyable, ‘somewhat true’ tale
  • Adria Arjona as Madison Masters and Glen Powell as Gary Johnson in a scene from Hit Man

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Hit Man review – Richard Linklater’s thoroughly entertaining fake-killer caper

    Glen Powell plays a mild-mannered professor posing as a contract killer to catch would-be criminals in this diverting noir comedy loosely based on a true story

February 2024

  • Director Richard Linklater (left) with high school classmate Bambi Kiser

    Richard Linklater: ‘I don’t feel connected to my government right now’

    The film-maker is one of three directors behind the docuseries God Save Texas looking at the issues facing those living in the state, some a matter of life and death

September 2023

  • Jeremy Fox, Esteban Powell, Wiley Wiggins and Mark Vandermeulen in Dazed and Confused

    Dazed and Confused review – Richard Linklater’s joyously evocative hangout movie

  • Glen Powell in 'Hit Man' film still

    Hit Man review – Richard Linklater mixes philosophy and fun in true-crime caper

July 2023

  • High-profile … Bradley Cooper directs and stars as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro, with Carey Mulligan.

    Venice film festival picks starry films despite actors’ strike

  • Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood - Milo Coy as Stan

    Stream team
    Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10 ½ is a joyous celebration of the moon landing

March 2023

  • Richard Linklater in 2019 … ‘Boyhood’s always described as a film about growing up, but it’s a film about parenthood.’

    Richard Linklater: ‘Boyhood was one thing, but I’m going to be in my 80s by the time this next one’s done’

    The director shot his 2014 film over 12 years, documenting his cast growing older. As it’s re-released, the director reflects on his beautiful ‘time sculpture’ as well as a potential follow-up to Before Midnight and his 20-year project with Paul Mescal

December 2022

  • David Bowie as seen in Moonage Daydream.

    Are you bored yet?
    Are you bored yet? Five brilliant films to stream right now – and not one of them is The Great Escape

    From an intimate sexy comedy to a shape-shifting Bowie documentary, settle down in front of these magnificent movies

June 2022

  • Tickets, please … Yoo Gong in Train to Busan.Character(s): Seok Woo Film 'TRAIN TO BUSAN; BUSANHAENG' (2016) Directed By SANG-HO YEON 13 May 2016 SAR71384 Allstar/WELL GO USA ENTERTAINMENT **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of WELL GO USA ENTERTAINMENT and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company & can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To WELL GO USA ENTERTAINMENT is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

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    The 20 best films set on trains – ranked!

  • From left: Tilda Swinton in Memoria, Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook in Ali & Ava, Catherine Clinch in The Quiet Girl.

    Best culture of 2022 so far
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April 2022

  • A large family gathered around a projector

    Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood review – Richard Linklater’s boomer nostalgia trip

    The director animates his Texas childhood memories with style but too little substance

March 2022

  • Milo Coy as Stan in Apollo 10½.

    Apollo 10½ review – Richard Linklater’s sensational coming-of-ager heads for the stars

    Richard Linklater combines his affinities for rotoscoping and depicting the quiet magic of childhood in a wonderful paean to late-60s idealism

February 2022

  • Bernie - 2012<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage Mandatory Credit: Photo by c.Everett Collection / Rex Features (1702253a) BERNIE, Jack Black Bernie - 2012

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    Bernie: Jack Black soars in Richard Linklater’s brilliant true-crime comedy

    Actor is breathtakingly good as a sweet man who befriends a wealthy widow, with deadly results – backed up by Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey

May 2021

  • ‘he loved music’ … Kevin Clark, second left, gets a drumming lesson from Jack Black in School of Rock.

    School of Rock star Kevin Clark dies in collision aged 32

    Jack Black leads tributes to Clark, who played drummer Freddy in the comedy film, saying he was ‘heartbroken’ at the loss

November 2020

  • Ethan Hawke

    Ethan Hawke on regrets, race and surviving Hollywood: 'River Phoenix was a big lesson to me’

    Hawke could have been a superstar to rival Leonardo DiCaprio or Matt Damon. But, as he turns 50, the actor is thinking more about the dangers he avoided than the opportunities he turned down
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