The whole voice cast is excellent in DreamWorks’ first major release to feature a titular female hero, about a family of mythical sea beasts
April 2023
‘I’m building a patchwork quilt’: Nicholas Hoult on fame, fatherhood and playing Dracula’s wingman
The star of not one but two hot vampire films talks lockdown, eating caramel cockroaches and why he wants to make a romcom
March 2023
TV review
The Power review – Toni Collette rules in this sparky sci-fi about superpowered women
This adaptation of a brilliant novel – about women who can create electricity – sticks to the original like glue. As a TV show, it doesn’t work quite as well
January 2023
The Estate – dispiriting inheritance comedy
The Estate review – Toni Collette and A-list cast add class to sweary, crass comedy
December 2022
The weekly beast
Lachlan Murdoch’s whirlwind week: from US court testimony to Sydney Christmas party as elites rub shoulders
Amanda Meade
Global head of News Corp among Murdoch’s guests. Plus: Toni Collette reveals split with husband after Daily Mail photos
May 2022
Same old true story: why have TV shows turned into Wikipedia entries?
Down the rabbit hole
What links a 2001 murder to Donovan and Claire Danes?
‘I was literally shocked’: the true story behind new TV drama The Staircase
TV review
The Staircase review – Colin Firth and Toni Collette scale the heights in riveting true-crime tale
January 2022
Nightmare Alley review – a neo-noir knockout from Guillermo del Toro
Nightmare Alley review – Guillermo del Toro’s fairground of fear is a class act
December 2021
Nightmare Alley review – Guillermo del Toro’s trickster thriller is light on treats
Bradley Cooper leads a starry cast as an ambitious grifter in a sumptuously made noir that can’t quite grip us tightly enough
June 2021
Dream Horse review – hope and hwyl in a one-horse town
Dream Horse review – true story of a Welsh village that bought a racehorse is a winner
May 2021
Dream Horse: the true story of a Welsh village that raised a racehorse
Twenty years ago, one woman convinced her neighbours to buy, rear and train a thoroughbred racehorse, Dream Alliance. Now their unlikely story is relived in a feelgood film
April 2021
Stowaway review – a devastating dilemma drives tense Netflix sci-fi
Anna Kendrick and Toni Collette star in a believably wrought drama about an oxygen emergency that ends up losing air in the finale