Looking for Alaska review – is this Dawson's Creek throwback too wholesome for Gen Z?
This adaptation of John Green’s young-adult hit is funny and endearing, but its pre-smartphone setting and manic pixie plot feel strangely out of sync with today’s teen hits
March 2019
Steve Rose on film
Dying of the light: why Hollywood needs to get over its obsession with terminally ill teens
Five Feet Apart is the latest film about doomed young heartthrobs – a trope rife in popular culture since Romeo and Juliet
January 2019
Ed Sheeran the movie? When pop songs become films
A Chainsmokers hit is being adapted for the cinema. But what happens when you turn a chart tune into a screenplay? From Dua Lipa to Sheeran, here are a few potential plots
July 2015
Miguel Arteta set to direct film of YA novel All the Bright Places
Book’s author Jennifer Niven will write the film’s script, and Elle Fanning is already cast as lead character Violet Markey in ‘heart-wrenching’ romance
June 2015
Children's books
What's happening at the The Fault In Our Stars Night of Infinities sleepover on Friday 26 June?
How Hollywood has learned to embrace the realities of death in film
May 2015
Children's books
Join John Green's The Fault in Our Stars sleepover
John Green calls on fans to organise a ‘Night of Infinities’ sleepover on 26 June in aid of teen cancer charity
April 2015
Selma and Boyhood miss out to The Maze Runner at the MTV movie awards
The Fault in Our Stars wins movie of the year while Jennifer Lopez wins best scared-as-shit performance for The Boy Next Door
March 2015
Shailene Woodley: I have the luxury of having been an actor since I was five
Knife-throwing, pole dancing… the Divergent star on learning new life-skills, working on a biopic of Edward Snowden – and why she cleans her teeth with clay
February 2015
Books blog
'Not my words': John Green's wrongly attributed line and other misquotations
As the The Fault in our Stars author takes to YouTube to reveal that one of his often quoted inspirational sentences wasn’t written by him, we look at some other famous victims of misquotation
November 2014
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
DVDs and downloads: Chef; The Fault in Our Stars, Mad Men Season 7 and more
Chef cooks up a choice character comedy for Jon Favreau, while The Fault in Our Stars finds love conquering almost all, writes Guy Lodge
September 2014
Fault in Our Stars author John Green's Paper Towns gets big-screen green light
The Fault in Our Stars named hit of the summer on social media
August 2014
Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort boss movie section of Teen Choice awards
The Fault in Our Stars to get Bollywood remake
July 2014
Film blog
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes climbs to top of tree at UK box office
Apes franchise makes solid opening while new Transformers slides fast – but Boyhood shows staying power in the arthouse, writes Charles Gant
Box office analysis: UK
The World Cup is dead. Long live Transformers 4 at the UK box office
Charles Gant: Age of Extinction gives cinemas a blockbuster boost after the football frenzy; while Boyhood and Begin Again offer strong alternatives to mainstream Hollywood fare
Katniss tipped to be among most popular baby names in 2014
Box office analysis: UK
Sneaky previews for Transformers 4 and How To Train Your Dragon 2 lead to a flat weekend at the UK box office
