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Ridley Scott

July 2024

  • Rebecca Rideal

    A New York accent in ancient Rome? So what, it’s no less accurate than RP

    Rebecca Rideal
  • Gladiator II film still<br>Paul Mescal plays Lucius in Gladiator II from Paramount Pictures.

    ‘Rage is your gift’: Paul Mescal battles Pedro, Denzel and a rhino in first Gladiator II trailer

June 2024

  • Not you again … Cailee Spaeny in Alien: Romulus.

    Week in geek
    Alien: Romulus could be the back-to-basics Alien reboot we’ve all been waiting for

  • ‘There’s definitely a tinge of jealousy’ … Russell Crowe in Gladiator.

    Russell Crowe: I’m ‘slightly uncomfortable’ with Gladiator 2

March 2024

  • Looks encouragingly familiar … Cailee Spaeny in Alien: Romulus.

    Week in geek
    Can Alien: Romulus return the space saga to its chestbursting glory years?

    Rogue One: A Star Wars Story showed how to repair damage in a sci-fi franchise but Romulus director Fede Alvarez must bring his A-game
  • Peter Bradshaw

    M Emmet Walsh was both a mesmerising everyman and an indelible gargoyle. How I’ll miss those poached-egg eyes

    Peter Bradshaw
    Always good as either an antagonist or malign authority figure, Walsh – best known as loathsome PI Visser in Blood Simple – was a singular, brilliant icon
  • still from a film with a woman holding a gun

    Alien: Romulus: first trailer for Ridley Scott-approved franchise restarter

    Latest chapter in sci-fi series comes from Evil Dead director Fede Alvarez but has approval of those behind the originals

February 2024

  • Ridley Scott.

    Ridley Scott set to direct Bee Gees biopic

    Fresh from filming Gladiator 2, the British director is being lined up for a project about the Stayin’ Alive singers, produced by the company that made Bohemian Rhapsody

January 2024

  • John Naughton

    The networker
    It was expensive and underpowered, but the Apple Macintosh still changed the world

    John Naughton
  • Penélope Cruz as Laura Ferrari in a scene from Ferrari.

    Biopic woman: move over Napoleon, Ferrari and Oppenheimer … here come the wives

December 2023

  • Mary Earps, Shirley Bassey, Michael Eavis and Emilia Clarke.

    New year honours 2024: awards for Shirley Bassey, Mary Earps and Michael Eavis

    Author Jilly Cooper and actor Emilia Clarke also honoured
  • ‘Very bright child’ … Rhys forged a letter to a better school and left the pits, factories and ‘cruel teachers’ behind.

    ‘Oh, the importance of the phallus!’ Paul Rhys on Saltburn, Napoleon and viagra romp Men Up

    He stars in two of this year’s most talked-about films and will be appearing in the BBC’s erectile comedy this Christmas. It’s a remarkable career resurgence for the Welsh actor, who didn’t really know what sex was till he was 24
    • No country for old men? Why Miyazaki, Loach and Scott can’t stop making movies

    • Notebook
      We don’t go to the movies for a history lesson, but shouldn’t Napoleon at least be entertaining?

      Rowan Moore
    • Week in geek
      Alien nation: will the franchise’s new movie really cut all links to the past?

November 2023

  • Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon holding a telescope at the head of a line of troops

    Critics of Napoleon epic have fallen for emperor’s fibs, says film’s military expert

    The ex-para who advised Ridley Scott on the new movie’s battle scenes claims historians who attacked it have fallen for Bonaparte’s own hype
  • Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon.

    The Guide newsletter
    The Guide #114: This generation of epic filmmakers is ageing – but the cavalry is coming

    In this week’s newsletter: If Napoleon is Ridley Scott’s last ride, who will lead the charge for the next wave of blockbuster directors?
    • Like the rest of France, I couldn’t wait for Ridley Scott’s Napoleon. Then I actually saw it

      Agnès Poirier
    • Napoleon and The Crown are travesties: there is no ‘artistic licence’ to distort history

      Simon Jenkins
    • Sweary, angry, honest: is Ridley Scott Hollywood’s greatest interviewee?

      Stuart Heritage
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