Jock aversion stopped one writer from catching the Tom Cruise film that launched a thousand action sequences. But how is a film so influential so unimaginative?
May 2016
Lethal weapons: Shane Black's pulp fiction is still the best action around
Susan Sarandon: 'I want to direct female-friendly porn in my 80s'
November 2015
True Romance review – still in love with a classic crime romp
True Romance – Tarantino's early classic rattles on like a pink Cadillac
True Romance: fashion’s latest film inspiration
True Romance: the perfect showcase for Tony Scott’s exuberant style
November 2014
First look review
Exodus: Gods and Kings review – holy Moses, wholly acceptable for the devout
Ridley Scott’s 3D Moses biopic is very long, very camp and very grim. But one thing it isn’t is offensive – unless you mean the panpipes
August 2014
Role model
Why I'd like to be … Patricia Arquette in True Romance
In the final part of our series in which Guardian writers nominate their cinematic heroes, Ellie Violet Bramley raises a Snapple to Alabama Whitman, the lovely badass who rises above the violence of Tony Scott’s True Romance
April 2014
Top Gun sequel will see Tom Cruise competing with military drones
Cruise will return as Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell, now an old-school pilot fighting to prove humans are not obsolete in age of machines
March 2014
Tom Cruise: Top Gun sequel on cards
Star of 1986 aerial warfare yarn keen to complete project despite death of original director Tony Scott
October 2013
Why I love ...
Why I love … the 'Captain, I cannot concur' scene in Crimson Tide
Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman show us how it should be done, as a gung-ho nuclear sub captain meets his match, writes Emily Wilson
May 2013
Will Smith lassoes lead role in The Wild Bunch remake
Actor confirmed for update of Sam Peckinpah's iconic film, reportedly featuring DEA agent on tail of Mexican drug baron
February 2013
Tony Scott: Academy pays tribute at 2013 Oscars
Top Gun director who killed himself earlier this year remembered during the 85th Academy Awards ceremony
Xan Brooks: The star of Flight, whose career has gone from Malcolm X to action hero, talks about why he shuns the showbiz spotlight and reveals that a prophecy in a beauty salon first led him to take up acting
December 2012
Obituaries of 2012
Tony Scott remembered by Keira Knightley
The inclusive and impossibly lively film director was a true original, writes Keira Knightley
October 2012
Tony Scott had antidepressant in system but no cancer
Los Angeles coroner confirms that British film director's death was suicide
September 2012
Dakota Fanning: 'I still love life on set. It's where I feel most comfortable'
She didn't think of herself as a child star, even when she was one. Dakota Fanning talks about growing up making movies and her latest role as a teenager with terminal cancer in Now Is Good
August 2012
Tony Scott's family set up scholarship at American Film Institute
Film blog
Tony Scott's own story was always a bit better than his movies
