Bridget Jones's Baby

Hugh Grant says fourth Bridget Jones film will be ‘funny but very sad’

Actor reprises character of Daniel Cleaver but says he won’t play role of ‘60-year-old wandering around looking at young girls’

Cash Boyle

05, Oct, 2024 @1:59 PM

Being Bridget Jones review – a sense of humour that came to define an era

Marking 25 years since Helen Fielding’s creation first appeared in a newspaper column, the stars of the films and many more line up to offer real insight

Rebecca Nicholson

22, Dec, 2020 @10:00 PM

Sarah Solemani: 'The TV and film industries are toxic – and it starts in the audition room'

The Harvey Weinstein scandal puts us at a crossroads. Can we remake the industry?

Sarah Solemani

20, Oct, 2017 @12:00 PM

Helen Fielding says Bridget Jones books are not anti-feminist

Fielding says humour is a ‘very powerful tool’ and describes being able to laugh at yourself a mark of strength, not a weakness

Mark Brown, arts correspondent

26, May, 2017 @7:24 PM

Are men ‘nicking’ the Today limelight, or is something else afoot?

Speculation is rife about Radio 4 presenter Nick Robinson’s ‘uncollegiate’ behaviour. But tongues will always wag – as the chancellor ought to be aware

Peter Preston

21, May, 2017 @6:00 AM

Why we should learn to stop worrying and love the blockbuster franchise

Each summer brings with it plenty of critical scorn for big-budget sequels but what can they teach us about the passage of time and the sociopolitical climate?

Stephen Snart

24, Apr, 2017 @3:53 PM

Bridget Jones’s Baby; Deepwater Horizon; War on Everyone and more – review

Comforts, catastrophes and chills in a week dominated by Renée Zellweger’s return as the klutzy singleton and Mark Walhlberg’s heroics in the Mexican Gulf

Guy Lodge

29, Jan, 2017 @8:00 AM

Choose life? Trainspotting’s realism hit a nerve, but we want escapism now | Catherine Shoard

Films used to make us face up to the real world – but today they allow us to avoid modernity and wallow in nostalgia

Catherine Shoard

19, Jan, 2017 @6:30 AM

UK box office records its biggest-ever total in 2016

Buoyed by success of Rogue One and Fantastic Beasts, UK cinemas beat the previous best figures from the year before

Andrew Pulver

06, Jan, 2017 @6:10 PM

Rogue One opens well in the UK – but not quite as well as Fantastic Beasts

Star Wars spin-off claims biggest opening of the year as rereleased James Stewart classic It’s a Wonderful Life crashes back into the festive chart

Charles Gant

20, Dec, 2016 @5:03 PM

A Wonder Woman at the UN? How about a real one? | Catherine Bennett

It hasn’t been a good week for female empowerment, with fictional characters being held up as role models

Catherine Bennett

18, Dec, 2016 @12:05 AM

Why the Woman’s Hour power list is as daft as the second Bridget Jones film

Lists such as this have an impact only if they are divisive and provocative – but did the Radio 4 programme’s panel make the right call?

Rebecca Nicholson

14, Dec, 2016 @1:59 PM

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