movies
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Spectre, Brand: A Second Coming, Mississippi Grind, Listen To Me MarlonOur critics review this week’s new releases, including the 24th Bond adventure and a documentary on Russell Brand’s bid for revolution and immortality -
Maureen O'Hara, Irish-born star of The Quiet Man and more, dies aged 95Irish-born actor who worked with John Wayne and John Ford in a number of films died in her sleep at Idaho home, says manager
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We don't need a Die Hard 'origin' storyThe next Die Hard will be a prequel – but the whole magic of the first film lay in the fact that, until then, nothing remarkable had happened to John McClane at all -
Sex change: why male roles are being rewritten for womenFemale actors are increasingly taking on characters that were originally intended for men. Is this a step towards gender equality or ignoring the real problem?
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Back to the Future writer: bad guy Biff was based on Donald TrumpScreenwriter Bob Gale confirms long-standing fan theory that Marty’s nemesis in the trilogy was modelled on the Republican presidential candidate
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Fassbender excels but iWorship required if you're to careDanny Boyle’s talky look at the Apple icon boasts an assured leading turn but the dominance of Aaron Sorkin’s script and focus on business wrangles mean this will mostly appeal to the Apple geek
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A likable kid’s adventure with a grownup angleThree kids from a Rio favela are on the trail of corruption in this watchable thriller from Stephen Daldry and Richard Curtis, writes Peter Bradshaw
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Chillingly topical eviction dramaMichael Shannon is lip-smackingly good as a reptilian real-estate broker forcing hard-up homeowners on to the street
video
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Darth Vader statue replaces Lenin monument in Ukraine - videoPeople dressed as Star Wars character attend the Darth Vader monument unveiling in Odessa on Friday
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Listen To Me Marlon – video reviewOur film critics hear an acting legend re-assess his legacy from beyond the grave
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Brand: A Second Coming – video reviewOur film critics listen to the gospel of Russell Brand, delivered via a new documentary by Dig! director Ondi Timoner
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Bets, wisecracks, tics and tells: why are gambling films so hard to follow?Mississippi Grind is just the latest casino drama to completely fail to explain the games at the centre of its story
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens – has Luke Skywalker turned to the dark side?Mark Hamill’s lightsaber-wielding Jedi wasn’t in the latest trailer, and it hasn’t taken bloggers long to dream up multiple conspiracy theories as to why
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Which other London areas deserve movies?Diane Keaton is filming in Hampstead Heath, providing a cinematic sheen to a new part of the capital. But it’s a big city: here’s where Hollywood should head next
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Hollywood v viewer intelligence: Are versus movies just monstrously lazy?King Kong v Godzilla is to follow Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Batman v Superman into multiplexes. Why are studios suddenly taking their cues from the makers of Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus and Sharknado 3?
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Ryan Reynolds: from buff buffoon to Hollywood heavyweightA poker pro in Mississippi Grind and Deadpool‘s saucy superhero are the next roles taking Reynolds interstellar like Matthew McConaughey. Meet the man whose effortless charm comes with a very un-starry dose of vulnerability
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I thought nothing could be as hard as True Detective, but Beasts of No Nation eclipsed itShooting in Ghana involved malaria, extortion, and near-death experiences. But that paled in comparison with trying to win funding for a ‘black’ film, says the director
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Hugh Jackman on Pan, Wolverine and his ‘hammy side’His new film Pan has been panned but the star says he had ‘maybe too much’ fun playing the villain Blackbeard. He talks about reaching peak superhero and why it’s time to hang up his X-Men claws
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Kevin Bacon on facial hair, strange things he’s found in the woods and GoggleboxLearning about Towie, Take Me Out and Paul Daniels is all in a day’s work for the Cop Car star. Just don’t ask him about moustaches
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Seriously big break: how a call from the Coens changed Michael Stuhlbarg's lifeThe Coen brothers lit a rocket under his career when they cast him in A Serious Man. As Michael Stuhlbarg prepares to play a computer nerd in Steve Jobs, the actor talks about finding his Hollywood sea legs
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Léa Seydoux: ‘For Bond, you have to be up for it. I had to work, to get fit’Following her performance as a lesbian artist in Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Léa Seydoux was hailed as ‘Bardot meets Binoche’. Next up for the sultry Gallic star is James Bond…
regulars
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Five best momentsFive best momentsVin Diesel: five best momentsAn unlikely career resurgence for the gravel-voiced action star continues with The Last Witch Hunter, but what are his fastest and furious-est films?
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The film quizThe film quizThe spy who loved everyone: match the chat-up line to the Bond movieWhile Daniel Craig’s less cartoonish take on the iconic secret agent might have eschewed some of the sillier 007 touches, he’s still not above impressing the ladies with his wit. As Spectre is about to be declassified, can you remember Bond’s most provocative one-liners?
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DVDs and downloads
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Philip French's classic DVDPhilip French's classic DVDThe Ladykillers review – the greatest comedy caperAlec Guinness’s thieves without honour are no match for Katie Johnson’s Mrs Wilberforce in this allegory of postwar Britain
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentEntourage: farewell to the show where nothing bad happensDoug Ellin hits the reset button for a feature-length finale for Vince, Turtle and co
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsMr Holmes; Entourage; Theeb; Closed Curtain; Pasolini; Knock Knock; Pay the Ghost; Poltergeist; Fear Itself – reviewIan McKellen is a joy to watch in a wily reworking of Sherlock Holmes lore
you may have missed
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Cinema release dates: is Monday the new Friday?Spectre and Suffragette both hit the big screen at the start of a week, but industry experts say only the right kind of movie can pull that off
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Chris Rock tastes Oscars' poisoned chalice – againThe host will do a bang-up, professional job but he’ll be hemmed in by the format – and, like every Oscar host, must now face the Amy/Tina factor
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Back to the Future day – part two, as it happened. The internet celebrates October 21, 2015Celebrations are continuing around the globe and you can follow the action with us as fans commemorate the day to which Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel in 1989’s Back to the Future II
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Woof! The talking animal roles stars would rather we forgotPenélope Cruz as a ninja guinea pig, André 3000’s method crow … as Bradley Cooper prepares to play a dog in Lasse Hallström’s new film, we look at the not so glorious history of animal voicing
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Riot girls on film: how silent cinema lent the suffragettes a voiceThe BFI’s new film collection sees cross-dressing comedies join anti-feminist propaganda and the newsreel of Emily Davison’s death
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Black power’s coolest radicals (but also a gang of ruthless killers)With the US convulsed by contemporary incidents of racist police brutality, a new documentary charts the rise of the Black Panthers.
best of 2015
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The best films of 2015Gathering together the best movies released in the US this year, from A Most Violent Year to Furious 7, updated weekly
Daniel Craig: a reluctant Bond who has made the role his own