Martin Sheen

To watch is to yearn for a different world: how The West Wing made politics feel glorious

Twenty-five years ago today, Aaron Sorkin’s Oval Office drama started – and its principled, zippily scripted take on the importance of governance feels more important now than ever

Dale Berning Sawa

22, Sep, 2024 @8:00 AM

Eleanor Coppola obituary

Chronicler of the making of her husband’s Apocalypse Now whose footage and recordings were the basis for a documentary and book

Ryan Gilbey

18, Apr, 2024 @11:06 AM

The week in theatre: Nye; The Lonely Londoners; Hadestown – review

Larkiness overtakes Tim Price’s hallucinatory new play about the founder of the NHS; Roy Williams’s adaptation of Sam Selvon’s great Windrush novel pulses with brio; and Anaïs Mitchell’s underworld musical squeezes into the West End

Susannah Clapp

10, Mar, 2024 @10:30 AM

The week in TV: Black Mirror; Best Interests; The Full Monty; Count Abdulla – review

Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones’s dystopian series makes a timely return to form; Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen break hearts in Jack Thorne’s family drama; and the old gang are reunited, fully clothed, in Disney’s reboot of The Full Monty

Barbara Ellen

18, Jun, 2023 @8:30 AM

Lose the Sheen: can you identify the film stars from their real names? – quiz

Martin Sheen says he regrets changing his name from Ramón Estévez. So can you spot the superstars from their real names in our quiz?

Martin Belam

22, Jun, 2022 @1:55 PM

My streaming gem: why you should watch The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

Continuing our series of writers picking out lesser-known gems available to stream is an ode to a murderous Jodie Foster thriller

Kelli Weston

07, Feb, 2022 @6:16 AM

The Devil Has a Name review - fire-breathing thriller about a farmer taking on Big Oil

Kate Bosworth shines in a juicy role as a cigar-smoking oil matriarch in this drama directed by veteran actor Edward James Olmos

Ellen E Jones

14, Oct, 2020 @1:00 PM

Emilio Estevez: ‘Brat Pack will be on my tombstone’

The star of The Breakfast Club now has his father Martin Sheen’s looks, a bromance with Alec Baldwin – and sad news for fans of St Elmo’s Fire

Hadley Freeman

10, Jan, 2020 @10:00 AM

We got Obama elected! West Wing stars relive the parties, pranks and power games

Racist hate mail, late-night booze-ups, 9/11 hysteria and a visit from Prince Andrew … 20 years after its launch, Aaron Sorkin and the team recall the epic TV drama that changed US politics

Interviews by Kate Abbott

20, Sep, 2019 @2:37 PM

Francis Ford Coppola: 'Apocalypse Now is not an anti-war film'

Forty years since its first release, the director has been reworking his masterpiece for a definitive edition. How does he view his film – and the madness of its making – after all these years?

Kevin EG Perry

09, Aug, 2019 @5:00 AM

Apocalypse Now: Final Cut review – crazed exposé of the heart of darkness

From Marlon Brando’s extraordinary cameo to Dennis Hopper’s crazed photojournalist, Coppola’s epic ‘definitive’ cut of his brilliant 1979 war film is triumphant in restating the inhumanity of empire

Peter Bradshaw

07, Aug, 2019 @4:00 PM