‘Of course, one wants orgasmic life’: Bruce Joel Rubin on Ghost, gay identity and goldfish
The Oscar-winning screenwriter says he has always been gay, but is only now going public. At 81, he reflects on LSD, gurus and falling out with Whoopi Goldberg
May 2023
TV review
Silo review – this rich dystopian drama is absolutely thrilling
Apple TV+’s adaptation of a novel about a post-apocalyptic, bunker-dwelling civilisation provides an utterly fantastic story – not to mention stunning, meticulous sets
March 2023
Tim Robbins backs Woody Harrelson’s call to end Covid protocols on set
Shawshank Redemption actor tweeted in support of a recent interview in which Harrelson called on-set Covid protocols ‘nonsense’
September 2022
Ranked
Movies about movies – ranked!
Odes to cinema from Sam Mendes, Steven Spielberg and Damien Chazelle will jostle for Oscar glory next year – until then, here are 20 of the best films about film-making well worth dimming the lights for
April 2022
‘The enemy is the audience’: Robert Altman’s The Player at 30
The director’s razor-sharp Hollywood satire offered up a horribly prescient look at an industry turning away from creativity and toward commercialism
April 2020
The classic film I've never seen
I've never seen … The Shawshank Redemption
This enduring, much-loved classic about wrongful incarceration and dreams of liberation is an unlikely but irresistible joy in the lockdown era
October 2019
Tim Robbins: 'With the exception of America’s native tribes, we're all new here'
The actor, director and activist talks about his return to the Stephen King universe and his frustrations with the state of the US
August 2019
Ranked
The best Stephen King movies … ranked!
With It Chapter Two out next month, plus the news that an adaptation of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is back on track, we count down the finest big-screen versions of King’s terrifying tales
July 2019
Ad Astra and Joker to premiere at Venice film festival
Hollywood heavyweights line up to launch their awards runs at Venice, which is courting criticism for also including Roman Polanski’s new film in competition
February 2018
Here and Now review – Alan Ball's woke family drama is stiflingly self-important
Holly Hunter and Tim Robbins are the parents of an interracial family in a handsomely mounted yet embarrassingly on-the-nose show from the creator of Six Feet Under
August 2017
Marjorie Prime review – melancholy sci-fi offers poignant tale of love after life
A holographic Jon Hamm and a standout turn from Lois Smith are two of the many pleasures packed into this soulful drama set in a future where death doesn’t need to be the end
February 2016
'Shawshank' fugitive captured after 56 years on the run to be released
Frank Freshwaters, 79, was captured in May after escaping in 1959 from the Ohio state reformatory, the prison immortalized in The Shawshank Redemption
June 2015
Tim Robbins: 'I know Republicans who love their children and are not evil'
The 10 best ...
The 10 best prisoners on screen
May 2015
A Perfect Day review - Del Toro and Robbins in imperfect aid work adventure
Director Fernando Leon de Aranoa’s tonal mishmash sees Benicio Del Toro and Tim Robbins hit the road in the Balkans, doing their best to help the locals trapped by post-civil war institutional inertia
April 2015
Cannes film festival 2015: Directors' Fortnight lineup announced
Auteur-oriented strand to open with Philippe Garrel’s In the Shadow of Women and close with Rick Famuyiwa’s Sundance hit Dope
September 2014
Life of Crime review – a poor man's American Hustle
Life of Crime review – a good-natured, unexpectedly winning treat
April 2014
Film blog
Clip joint: the best Stephen King film adaptations
Five of the best adaptations of Stephen King novels. Are there any others you'd add to the list?
November 2013
Film blog
Top 10 sports movies
Fighting, dying, hoping, hating … great sports films are about far more than sport itself. Here the Guardian and Observer critics pick their 10 best
