The latest in our series of writers defending maligned films is a reappraisal of Ron Howard’s starry relationship comedy
December 2020
Death! Dancing! Drinking! The best movie moments of 2020
Ranked
The 20 best body-swap films – ranked!
November 2020
Freaky review – wildly entertaining body swap comedy horror
An ingenious slasher movie spin on Freaky Friday is both fun and funny and features an unlikely, pitch perfect performance from Vince Vaughn
July 2020
Arkansas review – buddy crime caper with 90s flavour and 70s clobber
Clark Duke and Liam Hemsworth climb the sticky drug-trafficking ladder in this meandering drama, graced with superb menswear
January 2020
Shortcuts
Surprised by Vince Vaughn’s chumminess with Trump? You shouldn’t be
Uproar after Vince Vaughn shakes Trump’s hand at football game
April 2019
Dragged Across Concrete review – crime caper that outstays its welcome
Dragged Across Concrete review – horribly compelling Mel Gibson thriller
March 2019
Trolled across concrete: why Mel Gibson's new film is a curious provocation
In Dragged Across Concrete, the disgraced actor stars as a violent cop in a thriller that’s a well-crafted but furiously antagonistic rant
September 2018
Dragged Across Concrete review – glum Mel Gibson in unflinching and nasty police thriller
Vince Vaughn and Gibson execute film director S Craig Zahler’s distinctive vision in a confident mismatch of heist and violence
June 2018
Big stars, little interest: when movie heavyweights fizzle on TV
Kevin Costner’s big budget soap Yellowstone has been savaged by critics and he’s not the only A-lister who has struggled on the small screen
October 2017
Film blog
No more Mr Nice Guy: the actors who revived their careers with extreme makeovers
Affable goofball Vince Vaughn is on the verge of a Vaughnaissance with his gleeful antihero in Brawl in Cell Block 99. Here’s who he can take tips from
September 2017
Brawl in Cell Block 99 review – Vince Vaughn has a riot in ultraviolent thriller
The amiable man-child is recast as a tattooed, eye-gouging inmate whose wife is held hostage in S Craig Zahler’s gloriously gory slice of macho grindhouse
July 2017
George Clooney, Jennifer Lawrence and Matt Damon jostle for Oscar advantage in Venice line-up
Damon stars in two of the Lido’s big films, Downsizing and Suburbicon, while Lawrence steps into horror movie territory with Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!
April 2017
Lost in showbiz
Vince Vaughn and Mel Gibson: the Hollywood cops out to prove all lives matter
Together at last! The duo is about to take on police brutality and solve race relations
February 2017
Mel Gibson set to star in police brutality drama alongside Vince Vaughn
The duo will play a cop in Dragged Across Concrete, about two police officers who are the subject of a video leak of their treatment of suspects
August 2015
TV and radio blog
In praise of ... True Detective season two
It might have been widely slated by the critics, but there were moments to savour among season two’s bad writing and mind-boggling plot twists
July 2015
TV and radio blog
True Detective: is it OK to admit that no one knows what's going on?
So, you’re finding this second series of the cult crime drama totally confusing? Relax, you’re not alone
June 2015
TV review
True Detective review: ‘Bad, bad men are still doing bad, bad things’
Four new characters go about their dodgy business in a doomy atmosphere – but what of the case, you may well wonder?
