DVDs and downloads: Boyhood, Everyday, A Most Wanted Man, Obvious Child, The Riot Club and more
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood almost makes the award season’s clamour worthwhile, writes Guy Lodge
December 2014
Film blog
The forgotten five: 2014's least memorable blockbusters
Victoria Luxford: While Marvel continued to turn out films with darker themes and sharper writing, other superheroes and sci-fi villains have had trouble keeping up
October 2014
Children's books
The Giver by Lois Lowry - review
imaginaryunicorn: 'This book is really unusual and thought provoking, as you realize the seemingly utopian society is more, and more dystopian'
September 2014
The Giver review – dopey dystopian shtick
The Giver review – terrain The Truman Show covered in more depth
YA dystopias teach children to submit to the free market, not fight authority
Box office analysis: US
Guardians of the Galaxy can't save US box office from a soggy summer
August 2014
Box office analysis: US
Guardians of the Galaxy rule the roost as Hollywood looks to summer 2015
An abject showing from Sin City 2 helped Marvel regain top spot at the US box office, but studios can banish the seasonal blues with thoughts of next year, writes Jeremy Kay
The Giver: conservative parable or a Hollywood film like any other?
Although some Americans hail the movie as a timely warning, films as varied as the Hunger Games, Batman and Top Gun show that politics change much more than the movies
Box office analysis: US
Turtle power stays strong, while The Expendables 3 bellyflop at US box office
Sarah Palin turns film critic to praise The Giver
First look review
The Giver – first look review: Utopia isn't all it's cracked up to be, again
July 2014
Jeff Bridges tells Comic-Con of struggle to get Lois Lowry's The Giver filmed
Carys Herz: Bridges' father, whom the actor had hoped to direct in the title role, died before plans for the film could came to fruition
