Will Ferrell
BBC removes false Will Ferrell story based on parody Twitter account
User with paid-for blue tick verification, not actor, apologised to Sunderland football fans after match
Alex Hern
21, Feb, 2023 @4:26 PM
Will Ferrell seen having pint with football fans in Wrexham before match
Hollywood actor in Welsh town to watch team co-owned by fellow actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney
Nadeem Badshah
11, Feb, 2023 @9:11 PM
Barbie: first trailer for Greta Gerwig’s movie starring Margot Robbie
The Little Women writer-director has re-teamed with Noah Baumbach to write a new take on the much-loved doll character
Benjamin Lee
16, Dec, 2022 @2:50 PM
Elf the Musical review – Buddy’s back with some syrupy showtunes
Choreographed candy cane twirling and funny moments from the Will Ferrell film don’t save this show from being a bland corporate Christmas experience
Chris Wiegand
24, Nov, 2022 @11:59 PM
Spirited review – Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds hit all the wrong notes in Christmas musical
The two make for an awkward double act in a slick but grating song-and-dance spin on A Christmas Carol that will make grinches of us all
Benjamin Lee
09, Nov, 2022 @6:03 PM
TV tonight: Jimmy Akingbola on growing up in foster care and breaking Hollywood
The Bel-Air star reunites with his foster family and biological siblings. Plus, Bake Off tackles pastry and there is world-class sport. Here’s what to watch this evening
Graeme Virtue, Danielle De Wolfe, Ali Catterall, Jack Seale, Sammy Gecsoyler, Simon Wardell
01, Nov, 2022 @6:20 AM
Adam McKay: ‘Leo sees Meryl as film royalty – he didn’t like seeing her with a lower back tattoo’
After politics in Vice and finance in The Big Short, director McKay is taking on the climate crisis in his star-studded ‘freakout’ satire Don’t Look Up
Steve Rose
13, Dec, 2021 @7:00 AM
The week in TV: The Shrink Next Door; Inside the Care Crisis With Ed Balls; Beat the Devil; The Tower
A conniving shrink takes over his patient’s life as Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd reunite; Ed Balls gets to grips with elderly care; and Ralph Fiennes fumes in the David Hare play the BBC didn’t want
Barbara Ellen
14, Nov, 2021 @9:30 AM
The Shrink Next Door review – Paul Rudd traps Will Ferrell in a cult of two
Ferrell is a neurotic patient and Rudd a dangerously narcissistic therapist, in this plodding drama about a real-life scam which is saved by the sheer unbelievability of its source material
Lucy Mangan
12, Nov, 2021 @11:00 AM
‘I had to watch it with my therapist’: when real-life horrors get turned into TV
From The Shrink Next Door to Dr Death, true-crime podcasts are being snapped up for TV. But how does it really feel when your worst nightmare becomes a bingewatch?
Issy Sampson
05, Nov, 2021 @1:00 PM
Oscar-nominated Savan Kotecha: 'I’m the most boring person in the world'
Musical comedy Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga acted as a mid-pandemic balm. It also saved its chief lyricist from a songwriting rut
Michael Cragg
02, Apr, 2021 @12:00 PM
Ja Ja Ding Dong! How schlager found its joyful place in the pop camp
Will Ferrell’s new Eurovision movie dances to the bouncing beat of schlager, Germanic folk-pop reclaimed from the spectre of nationalism by embracing kitsch
Angelica Frey
08, Jul, 2020 @1:00 PM
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