By embracing the role of amiable lunk, the wrestler turned actor has become an unlikely, and very modern, leading man. But does his relationship with the WWE, and its controversial former owner, risk tarnishing his brand?I must...
Read MoreThe star was just eight when his friend was stabbed. Decades on, he’s ready to talk about that day – how it shaped him, and how, as he becomes a father himself, it will shape him as a dad“I feel a bit nervous,” confesses John...
Read MorePeople describe their return to physical media – whether to protect data, support artists, or retain control of one’s choices For some, it is the security of knowing they have a physical copy of their favourite films and music,...
Read MoreHis videos of cats, loopy contraptions and theme park rides round the heavens (and his back garden) have notched up a billion views. We meet Chris Burton in the suburban home where it all happensChris Burton is getting ready to...
Read MoreOne man’s irresponsible drilling causes a global crisis in Iñárritu’s exasperatingly laborious, self-congratulatory filmA new movie from the Oscar-winning Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu is always an event. So it’s...
Read MoreSixty years after the film’s release, Salzburg is embracing a Hollywood classic it once kept at arm’s lengthLet’s start at the very beginning – famously, a very good place to start.Just two decades after the second world war, a...
Read MoreThe Four Weddings and a Funeral actor answers your questions on being confused with James Nesbitt, his own Sliding Doors moment and a new perspective since turning 60How often do you get asked to recite that WH Auden poem from...
Read MoreChristopher Nolan’s The Odyssey might be the one to beat but a crop of competitors is starting to materialiseReporting from fall film festivals used to be a more streamlined process – what’s good, what’s bad, what’s being sold,...
Read MoreWith Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles as the Dashwood sisters, this fresh take on a beloved classic is not to be confused with Ang Lee’sThere’s no reason for anyone working on a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and...
Read MoreWhether its a nod to frontline Covid heroes or a return to biology in a world of digital noise, there’s a rich vein of new films featuring organ deliveries, including Runner and the latest Resident EvilHollywood loves a ticking...
Read MoreThe latest in our ongoing series of writers highlighting their most rewatched comfort films remembers a 1987 teenage girl classicThere is probably a Swedish word for the emotional state engendered in me by Dirty Dancing. A kind...
Read MoreThe Irishman seems a dead cert for his performance as Ian Charleson in Elsinore. And his ability to avoid being pigeonholed while embracing queer stories, from Pride to All of Us Strangers, is a remarkable achievementThis...
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