King Kong

The top 20 dinosaur movies – rrraaaanked!

With Jurassic World Dominion out next month, we run through the best prehistoric pictures. You know what’s No 1 – or do you?

Stuart Heritage

26, May, 2022 @11:00 AM

How Millie Bobby Brown used her superpowers

The Stranger Things star is still in her teens, but has moved beyond new kid on the block to be a Hollywood power broker

Vanessa Thorpe

28, Mar, 2021 @9:30 AM

Broadway and the beast: King Kong takes to the New York stage

In an ambitious new production, a 20ft beast is transported to Broadway and the team behind it talks about how they updated the classic story

Jake Nevins

19, Oct, 2018 @8:00 AM

Godzilla vs Kong: whoever wins Hollywood's monster mashup, we all lose

Adam Wingard has promised a definitive victor when the giant beasties go at it in 2020. But the history of ‘versus’ movies suggest that, irrespective of who triumphs, audiences will feel short-changed

Ben Child

22, Aug, 2017 @9:48 AM

Naomi Watts: ‘My soul was being destroyed’

At 32, she was unhireable. At 48, she is unmissable. The Gypsy star talks lucky breaks, bad reviews and being in therapy

Tom Lamont

15, Jul, 2017 @8:00 AM

Apes, vampires or giant crabs: which movie apocalypse would you prefer?

Whether you’re hiding from Godzilla or fleeing the zombie masses, some films prove you might just be better off flinging yourself into the sea

Stuart Heritage

19, Apr, 2017 @3:10 PM

Kong: Skull Island review – only de-evolution can explain this zestless mashup

Tom Hiddleston’s talents are lost in this jumbled jungle caper that repeatedly indulges in anti-climax and silliness

Peter Bradshaw

02, Mar, 2017 @10:00 PM

Deadpan John Goodman is king of Kong: Skull Island Comic-Con panel

Star discusses behaviour of title character – whose real name is ‘Leo’– and Eddie Redmayne dishes out wands at Fantastic Beasts Potter panel

Sam Thielman in San Diego

23, Jul, 2016 @10:41 PM

Andy Serkis and the marvel of ‘performance capture’

As Gollum and King Kong, Andy Serkis showed what could be done with film’s cutting-edge technology. But, as he tells Robert McCrum, we haven’t seen anything yet

Robert McCrum

06, Dec, 2015 @10:00 AM

Michael Keaton and JK Simmons swing free of Kong: Skull Island

Scheduling conflicts blamed for key duo’s departure from latest big budget Hollywood monster epic Kong: Skull Island, which will revisit home of giant ape

Ben Child

02, Jul, 2015 @12:08 PM