‘Surrounded by the beauty of a thousand candles’: why Twilight is going live, loud and on tour
The Kristen Stewart / Robert Pattinson vampire romantasy is back and supported by rock and classical musicians – just the latest film to be granted the mysterious live concert treatment
March 2024
Week in geek
Can a super-grungy The Batman sequel take the DC universe somewhere even darker?
The 2022 film was an outlier, free from the usual superhero trappings and resolutely downbeat, and the follow-up should also go beyond the conventional
January 2024
Tin can alley: the return of the Sad Man in Space
With Spaceman, Adam Sandler joins a cohort of weepy astronauts plundering the woes of the male psyche far from Earth. What are all these sad blokes trying to tell us?
April 2022
Stream team
You’ll have a bad time watching Good Time – but you’ll never feel so alive
If cinema is meant to make us feel something, then the Safdie brothers want us to have a stress-induced aneurysm with this 2017 thriller, which got Robert Pattinson his Batman gig
March 2022
Week in geek
The Batman reinvented Gotham. So who will be its next supervillain?
Now you've seen it
The Batman: Robert Pattinson’s voice, the Riddler’s brutality, Gotham’s makeover – discuss with spoilers
The Batman review – Robert Pattinson’s brooding caped crusader has a lot on his mind
Down the rabbit hole
What links The Batman to High Fidelity and The Satanic Verses?
February 2022
The Batman review – Robert Pattinson’s emo hero elevates gloomy reboot
Matt Reeves’ film is spectacular and well-cast but an intriguing saga of corruption devolves into a tiresome third act
Robert Pattinson: the heart-throb who dared to be repellent
Playing Batman finally puts the boy from Barnes on the A-list – after years spent sabotaging any hope of mainstream success
Lights! Camera! Infraction! Mad Max shows why Hollywood indulges bad behaviour
Doorbells, chicken and special edition biscuits: why are The Batman’s tie-ins such a joker?
Robert Pattinson was told to change his ‘absolutely atrocious’ Batman voice
January 2022
Names in the news
Robert Pattinson: at three hours, is Batman outstaying his welcome?
Rebecca Nicholson
Films shouldn’t be an endurance test yet that is what they are turning into
Week in geek
Robert Pattinson’s Batman is going to be seriously messed up – and I like it
Pattinson’s comment on the caped crusader’s dark psyche gives me hope that Matt Reeves’ film will have something to say
The outspoken
‘I had this strong feeling that my face was disfigured’ – Kitty Wallace, the body dysmorphic sufferer turned campaigner
Robert Pattinson set to star in Parasite director Bong Joon-ho’s new film
Today in Focus
Culture 2022: what to watch, read and listen to this year
December 2020
Anna Wintour in sweatpants, Harry Styles in lace: the people who defined fashion in 2020
Style was as weird as you would expect in a year that saw most of us locked down. Hazmat suits, feral scruffiness and gender twists led to some memorable looks
September 2020
The Devil All the Time review – Pattinson is plausibly icky in violent gothic noir
Robert Pattinson’s florid preacher is one of a gallery of geeks and grotesques in this grisly smalltown tale
