Composer of hit musical says director Tom Hooper didn’t consult those involved in the original show when making his widely panned film adaptation
May 2020
'I haven’t seen it. I've heard it's terrible': match the Cats cast member to their quote
Judi Dench has broken her silence on Tom Hooper’s musical, calling her Cats coat ‘battered, mangy’, ‘a great big orange bruiser’ and more colourful descriptions. So what have her colleagues said about the film?
March 2020
'In homage to cockroach limbs': Tom Hooper's Cats commentary deepens the mystery
The man behind the much-maligned musical film has shared some of its secrets – prepare to be baffled
January 2020
Stop mewling! Cats is no turkey, say our dance and theatre critics
Film reviewers sank their claws into Cats, but is it really so awful? Our stage reviewers steeled themselves for the caterwauling ... but ended up quite enjoying it
December 2019
Cats: the fur, the tails, Judi Dench's cannibal coat – discuss the film with spoilers
Are all the humans dead? Why do some of the cats wear clothes? Even if it completely lacks a plot, there’s plenty to pick apart here
An orgy of throbbing tails: is Cats the kinkiest film to earn a U certificate?
Tom Hooper’s adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is festive fun for all the family, according to the cinema ratings boards. So why are early audiences averting their eyes?
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Cats review – a purr-fectly dreadful hairball of woe
Feline confident? Cats' last-minute dash to the cinema
Cats premiere: mewls loom following ominous Globes result
November 2019
'The most disturbing thing I've ever seen' – will the new Cats trailer claw back its appeal?
The movie adaptation of the Lloyd Webber musical appalled viewers when its first trailer launched four months ago. Now a new one is here, has it improved things?
July 2019
Cats trailer’s weirdness would have appealed to TS Eliot, suggests estate
Feline queasy: eight urgent questions about the Cats trailer
April 2019
Cast of Cats film to be size of actual cats
Stars including Judi Dench, Ian McKellen and Taylor Swift will be shrunk via CGI and made hirsute using ‘digital fur technology’
October 2018
Tom Hooper's Cats film to be gender flipped as Judi Dench joins cast
Dench is to play elderly mog Deuteronomy, a role traditionally played by a man, in adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical
September 2018
British cinema’s exclusion of the young, skint and state educated is a national shame
Danny Leigh
The 1963 arrival of Billy Liar looked like the beginnings of a more democratic, working-class film industry. So why are we still stuck with polite social realism and sniggery classism?
August 2018
How to stop Taylor Swift from turning Cats: The Movie into a dog’s dinner
With a big-screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s feline musical under way, here’s how #MeToo, Zac Efron and DJ Khaled could make purrfect movie memories
July 2018
Taylor Swift to star in Tom Hooper's Cats movie
Singer-songwriter to take first major acting role, alongside Ian McKellen, James Corden and Jennifer Hudson, in Hooper’s adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical
May 2016
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Creed; The Danish Girl; When Animals Dream; Mojave; The Chosen Ones – review
Tom Hooper to milk Cats musical for movie version
February 2016
Top actors defend BBC in campaign film against cuts
Stars including Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and director Danny Boyle and others join forces to fight for the ‘inspiring’ corporation
