Mary Poppins, The BFG and Spectre: your complete Christmas film guide
The best festive films, from the classic The Grand Budapest Hotel, to modern favourites such as Up and Brooklyn, plus the creepy baby from Twilight and everything in between
April 2017
Emma Donoghue: seven kids and four parents – bigger is better in children’s books
In classics from Eve Garnett to Arthur Ransome, there are always enough kids to form a world without adults – and a hardcore tomboy can have a place in the gang
December 2016
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Swallow and Amazons; David Brent: Life on the Road; Woody Allen: Six Films and more – review
Comforting British titles, first-rate Woody Allen, Ricky Gervais on the road again, and a slow-moving Zac Efron vehicle
August 2016
Box office analysis: UK
Cringe, little benefit: David Brent flounders in Finding Dory's wake
Swallows and Amazons review – nostalgic adaptation
Books blog
Why it wasn’t all plain sailing for Swallows and Amazons’ author
From the Guardian archive
Swallows and Amazons book review, 1930 - archive
July 2016
Backwards to the future: how Britain’s nostalgia industry is thriving
First look review
Swallows and Amazons review – sails on merrily, despite spy ballast
May 2016
Brief letters
Sensible reason to swap Titty for Tatty
Titty's family 'furious' over name change for Swallows and Amazons film
May 2011
Swallows and Amazons: the new Harry Potter?
Ben Child: Arthur Ransome's beloved books could be the next big children's film franchise, as BBC plans to ramp up the action and reality
