Christian Slater
Pump Up the Volume: can Christian Slater’s teen movie become a musical hit like Heathers?
The 1990 film about high-school rebellion, featuring a jaded late-night DJ, could find a fresh theatre audience in this new age of disillusionment
Chris Wiegand
07, Feb, 2023 @3:21 PM
A moment that changed me: a film director gave me the push I needed to finish my novel
I was desperate to finish my book but couldn’t afford a computer. Then a man I barely knew stepped in …
Courttia Newland
20, Apr, 2022 @7:00 AM
The Avalanches' teenage obsessions: 'I cried hearing Strawberry Fields Forever'
With the release of their new album this month, the Australian psych-poppers reminisce about BMX bikes, Christian Slater and Morrissey’s potent melancholy
Interview by Rhi Storer
02, Dec, 2020 @7:00 AM
Oxymoron alert as German economic slowdown accelerates | Brief letters
Brief letters: Oxymoron corner | Front-page news | Charity shop ethics | Churchill’s imitators | Clare in the Community
Letters
25, Sep, 2019 @5:07 PM
Double trouble: the hard life of the movie doppelganger
From the poor man’s Tom Hardy to a ‘king-sized’ Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood can’t resist cloning its stars. It rarely ends well …
Phil Hoad
04, Oct, 2018 @12:08 PM
Heathers review – cool kids cult hit even more surreal 30 years on
Winona Ryder and Christian Slater return in this rerelease of a strange and shocking tale of high-school cruelty and bloodshed
Peter Bradshaw
09, Aug, 2018 @7:00 AM
Michael Lehmann on the legacy of his cult teen film Heathers
While some of the taboo-busting elements of the Winona Ryder-starring film have not aged well, much of its toxicity still resonates
Steve Rose
04, Aug, 2018 @9:00 AM
Robert Glenister freezes on stage during West End performance
Production of Glengarry Glen Ross halted for 30 minutes and understudy brought on to finish David Mamet play
Ruth McKee
11, Nov, 2017 @5:53 PM
Glengarry Glen Ross review – Christian Slater is top dog among cut-throat conmen
A tip-top cast play David Mamet’s desperate salesmen turned robbers in his scorching condemnation of the dangers of male ego-driven capitalism
Michael Billington
09, Nov, 2017 @11:59 PM
The Wife review – Glenn Close is unreadably brilliant as author's spouse plunged in late-life crisis
As the apparently-perfect wife of a Nobel prize-winning writer, Close gives arguably her best ever performance in an adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s novel
Peter Bradshaw
12, Sep, 2017 @7:48 PM
2017 Golden Globes: full list of nominations
Here’s who’s up for the awards for the cream of TV and film in Hollywood
Guardian film
12, Dec, 2016 @2:01 PM
James Franco's gay porn drama: 'He loves his scandalous stories'
King Cobra director Justin Kelly talks about his film based on Brent Corrigan’s career and how far Franco, who plays a porn producer, was willing to go on screen
Nigel M Smith in Los Angeles
21, Oct, 2016 @6:17 PM
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