Danny Boyle

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Brian Tufano obituary
Cinematographer who brought his imaginative sensibilities to films such as Trainspotting, Billy Elliot and Quadrophenia

Ryan Gilbey

26, Jan, 2023 @6:02 PM

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The best theatre, dance and comedy tickets to book for 2023
Danny Boyle’s Matrix-inspired spectacular opens in Manchester, Succession star Brian Cox returns to the stage and standups Maisie Adam, Guz Khan and Catherine Cohen are on tour

Arifa Akbar, Lyndsey Winship and Brian Logan

26, Dec, 2022 @6:00 AM

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Danny Boyle says the British may not be ‘great film-makers’
Speaking at the BFI Southbank, the director said the UK instead excelled at theatre and ‘extraordinary’ pop music

Andrew Pulver

03, Nov, 2022 @12:15 PM

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Danny Boyle Matrix ‘spectacular’ to open Manchester’s Factory
Show entitled Free Your Mind will be the first production at the city’s much-anticipated new arts venue

Mark Brown North of England correspondent

29, Sep, 2022 @3:20 PM

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‘A Jerusalem for everyone’: was the 2012 Olympics the last gasp of liberal Britain?
Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony for the London games was meant to be a celebration of Britain’s diverse history and its open-minded values. Ten years later, it seems more like a requiem

Steve Rose

16, Jul, 2022 @10:55 AM

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‘It’s now or never, this is my chance’: Anson Boon on his biggest break, punk and Johnny Rotten
For young actor Anson Boon, playing Johnny Rotten Danny Boyle’s Pistol is a dream come true. But what did punk teach him about himself?

Richard Godwin

05, Jun, 2022 @2:00 PM

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The week in TV: Pistol; The Midwich Cuckoos; Once Upon a Time in Londongrad; State of the Union
Danny Boyle fails to capture punk’s filth and fury, while Sky nails a fresh take on John Wyndham’s creepy classic

Barbara Ellen

05, Jun, 2022 @8:30 AM

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Pistol review – Danny Boyle’s wonky Sex Pistols show is like Punk: the Panto!
Johnny Rotten is the Artful Dodger crossed with an animated rodent in Boyle’s frustrating series that feels so cartoonish it falls totally flat

Rebecca Nicholson

31, May, 2022 @5:00 AM

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‘I’ve seen bedsheets with my face on them’: Thomas Brodie-Sangster on obsessive fans, Love Actually and the Sex Pistols
The actor became famous at 13 in Richard Curtis’s yuletide romance. Now 32, he talks about playing Malcolm McLaren, the success of The Queen’s Gambit and coming to terms with not playing Ron Weasley

Hannah J Davies

30, May, 2022 @5:00 AM

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‘I want Johnny Rotten to attack it!’ Danny Boyle on his shocking Sex Pistols saga
How do you make a sympathetic TV show about the most cancelled, most banned, most shamelessly vile band ever – when your cast have barely heard of them and the frontman is taking you to court? The director reveals all

Alexis Petridis

20, May, 2022 @12:00 PM

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Derry Girl Dylan Llewellyn: ​’​I call things wee​ ​when they’re not even small​’​
As the final Derry Girls series airs, its ‘wee English fella’ recalls his transition from schooldays struggling with dyslexia to being an honorary Irishman

Michael Hogan

24, Apr, 2022 @8:30 AM

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John Lydon: court decision on Danny Boyle film ‘so destructive’ for Sex Pistols
Punk frontman, who lost case against bandmates over use of music in TV series, says he fears band’s legacy may be ‘watered down’

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

31, Aug, 2021 @1:57 PM

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