The acclaimed Australian actor is a stalwart of the Star Wars universe as well as a veteran of a string of chewy independent thrillers – so get your questions over to him now
December 2022
Jessica Chastain: ‘I will never be angry at a woman for doing what she has to do to survive’
She escaped a tough childhood to become an Oscar-winning star. Now she’s on a mission to rescue country singer Tammy Wynette from decades of feminist dismissal
April 2022
‘I don’t regret it’: ex-CIA agent who inspired Zero Dark Thirty defends waterboarding
In interview with Reuters Alfreda Scheuer says waterboarding was not torture and insisted such techniques can work
September 2021
Steve Rose on film
Conflict of interest: why Hollywood failed to honestly address the ‘war on terror’
Twenty years on, cinema is littered with failed attempts at helping people understand the aftermath of 9/11, from American Sniper to W
February 2019
CIA gave details of 9/11 suspect's secret torture to film-makers, lawyers say
Ammar al-Baluchi’s defense team say they were stunned to see portrayal of his torture, including beatings, in Zero Dark Thirty
February 2017
Zero Dark Thirty team to tackle 2016 election in new miniseries
Oscar-winning screenwriter Mark Boal will reunite with producer Megan Ellison for a dramatic event series about Trump v Clinton
June 2016
John Boyega cast in Kathryn Bigelow's upcoming film about 1960s Detroit riots
The Star Wars actor is the first named to star in Bigelow’s anticipated follow-up to Zero Dark Thirty, a crime drama set against the backdrop of the Detroit riots
September 2015
Zero Dark Thirty's CIA access triggered internal agency investigations
US spy agency probed film-makers’ gifts to officers and alleged access to classified material, and has tightened procedures for interaction with Hollywood
June 2015
Five ways film-making is evolving thanks to new technology
David Sheldon-Hicks, who has worked on Guardians of the Galaxy and Ex Machina, examines advances in motion capture and 3D printing
January 2015
Film blog
How Amy Poehler and Tina Fey made the Golden Globes the first feminist film awards ceremony
Hadley Freeman
In despatching targets such as Bill Cosby, George Clooney and Russell Crowe with such ease, the departing hosts showed the world a different way of working
November 2014
Why is Hollywood’s take on the Afghan conflict so different from the UK’s?
Kajaki is a very British film about the Afghan war: tense without showing combat, it is the antithesis of Hollywood glory-gore. Andrew Pulver reports
June 2014
Zero Dark Thirty team plan film about freed prisoner of war Bowe Bergdahl
Oscar winners Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal are among the film-makers lining up to tell his story of disillusioned US soldier Bowe Bergdahl and his captivity by the Taliban
June 2013
James Gandolfini: a life in clips as Tony Soprano - video
Following the death of American actor James Gandolfini, we take a look back at his career defining role as Tony Soprano in HBO's the Sopranos
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
Kathryn Bigelow's gripping action movie about the hunt for Bin Laden rises above the flak, writes Mark Kermode
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
Zero Dark Thirty | Chasing Ice | A Good Day To Die Hard | Diaz: Don't Clean Up The Blood | Devil Girld From Mars
May 2013
CIA requested Zero Dark Thirty rewrites, memo reveals
Document shows agency requested removal of interrogation scene with dog, and shots of operatives partying with AK47
March 2013
Seeing double: are Side Effects and Silver Linings Playbook the same film?
Argo won the Oscar, but Zero Dark Thirty is a far more serious work of art
Deborah Orr
February 2013
Senate drops Zero Dark Thirty inquiry
Glenn Greenwald on security and liberty
Zero Dark Thirty, the CIA and film critics have a very bad evening
