From the outhouse to the arthouse: how Hollywood's kings of comedy got serious
Cinema’s former fart-gag maestros have recast themselves as social critics. Are they the ideal pundits for an age of obscenity?
February 2019
Full list of nominations for the 2019 Oscars
Best picture Oscar hustings
Why Vice should win the best picture Oscar
No such thing as bad publicity: five ways to win an Oscar in 2019
Box office analysis: UK
How to Train Your Dragon soars over Green Book at UK box office
January 2019
Box office analysis: UK
Mary Queen of Scots fails to smash Glass ceiling at UK box office
Vice review – ambitious, amusing, but confused portrait of Dick Cheney
Fake-history films like Vice and The Uncivil War are the new threat to truth
Simon Jenkins
Culture highlights of the week
What to see this week in the UK
Oscar nominations 2019: Roma and The Favourite deserve acclaim, but no female directors is woeful
Observer New Review Q&A
Eddie Marsan: ‘My wife says Twitter is my midlife crisis’
Best supportive wife: how female characters fare at the Oscars
Adam Curtis and Vice director Adam McKay on how Dick Cheney masterminded a rightwing revolution
'Hail Christian!': Church of Satan revels in Bale's Golden Globes shoutout
Olivia Colman and Rami Malek at the Golden Globes after parties – in pictures
Golden Globes 2019: Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book questionable winners
2019 arts preview
Royals, rogues and Rudolf Nureyev: the best films of 2019
December 2018
Dick Cheney is back but rehabilitation is not on Darth Vader's agenda
A new film takes a look at the power behind George W Bush’s throne – a man who brought war, torture and moral rot
Vice review – Christian Bale hilarious as toad-like VP Dick Cheney
Bale brilliantly captures the former vice-president’s bland magnificence in Adam McKay’s entertainingly nihilist biopic
Golden Globes 2019: it's Dick Cheney v Lady Gaga in a surreal title fight
Peter Bradshaw
Vice is a surprise frontrunner – perhaps due to liberal nostalgia for when Republicans were intelligible – while A Star Is Born squares up to it, a little over-solemnly, in the best drama category