The Equalizer review – farcical fun with Queen Latifah’s avenging angel
The one-man A-Team is back on TV … except this time she’s a woman vigilante, defying a clunky script to tackle shady villains and deliver justice for those in need
September 2018
Box office analysis: UK
Christopher Robin hugs top spot as BlacKkKlansman advances at UK box office
Shark tale The Meg and Mamma Mia! sequel hold on to higher placings as Idris Elba’s crime thriller Yardie fails to crack Top 10
August 2018
Ashton Sanders: ‘Black artists still have to work 10 times harder’
The star of the Oscar-winning film Moonlight talks race relations in Hollywood, working with Denzel Washington, and his eclectic taste in movies
January 2015
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
DVDs and downloads: The Boxtrolls, The Equalizer, Concerning Violence, The Circle and more
Boxtrolls creates a grownup world for children. Others, alas, plump for the opposite, writes Guy Lodge
November 2014
Film blog
Comrades in arms: why big-screen bad guys are always Russian
The Equalizer, John Wick and The November Man are just the latest films with Russian gangsters. Joe Queenan dissects Hollywood’s most predictable casting cliche
October 2014
Why have Hollywood’s henchmen turned into incompetent knuckleheads?
Joe Queenan: A henchman should be menacing. He’s meant to kill, torture and maim. But with John Wick and The Equalizer, we get poorly trained incompetents. Even the henchcrow in Sleeping Beauty would put them to shame
Box office analysis: global
Global box office: horror spin-off Annabelle gives Asia satanic panic
Breakup Buddies trumps Gone Girl’s US haul and the Bible belt doesn’t smile on Nicolas Cage’s end-times thriller Left Behind in Phil Hoad’s report on the global box office
Box office analysis: UK
Gone Girl finds gold and Dracula Untold sucks bucks at the UK box office
Gone Girl scares up $38m to top US box office and stalk past horror prequel Annabelle
Box office analysis: global
Global box office: The Equalizer adds up to so-so numbers
September 2014
Film blog
Billy Elliot Live skips past The Equalizer to top UK box office
Box office analysis: US
Boxtrolls' Egg serves up greens at the US box office
The Equalizer review – Denzel Washington stars in backward-looking thriller
The Guardian Film Show
The Guardian Film Show: Maps to the Stars, I Origins, Ida and The Equalizer - audio
The Guardian film show
The Guardian Film Show: Maps to the Stars, Ida, I Origins and The Equalizer - video reviews
The Equalizer review – ugly, crass film smothers Denzel Washington’s charm
Denzel Washington on Equalizer: 'We had Navy Seals train us'
Film blog
The Equalizer: why have Hollywood vigilantes gone soft?
Denzel Washington replaces Tom Cruise in The Magnificent Seven
First look review
The Equalizer review – Denzel Washington: ordinary guy, cool killer
