David O Russell

From She Said to Devotion: this season’s ignored Oscarbait movies

While Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Banshees of Inisherin lead, the season saw other films with all the requisite ingredients fail to score

Benjamin Lee

07, Feb, 2023 @9:13 PM

Andrea Riseborough: ‘I needed to shake off the studio system. You feel like a cog in a vast machine’

The chameleonic star excelled in everything from sci-fi to comedy, but felt her creative spark waning. She talks about finding it again – and coming to terms with the oddness of acting for a living

Fiona Sturges

15, Oct, 2022 @10:55 AM

Amsterdam review – don’t try to keep up

David O Russell brings plenty of pizzazz to this 1930s mystery, but the ambitious jigsaw puzzle of a plot is almost impossible to follow

Wendy Ide

08, Oct, 2022 @2:00 PM

What links David O Russell’s crime romp Amsterdam to Gloria Steinem and Bob Dylan?

Ahead of the shouty director’s latest film, we venture down the rabbit hole with Christian Bale, Julianne Moore and Spike Lee

Larry Ryan

08, Oct, 2022 @12:00 PM

Amsterdam review – turn of the screwball in David O Russell’s starry muddle

Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington bring laughs to a exhaustingly wacky riff on a real-life fascist conspiracy in 1930s New York

Peter Bradshaw

28, Sep, 2022 @3:39 PM

‘Nepo baby’ fall preview: new films and TV from children of famous parents

The offspring of Denzel, Uma, Phoebe, Andie and Judd – and a Gainsbourg for good measure – follow in their parents’ celebrated paths

Caspar Salmon

12, Sep, 2022 @6:00 AM

The Batgirl you’ll never see: why some films disappear for ever

She cost a cool $90m but the comic book heroine won’t even be streamed. Why do some productions deserve such an extreme fate?

Guy Lodge

06, Aug, 2022 @2:00 PM

What links Harry Styles to Ipswich Town and Humphrey Bogart?

When you dive down the rabbit hole, you can go in only one direction: straight to pop’s foremost charmer, via Shania Twain, John Huston and Olivia Wilde

Larry Ryan

21, May, 2022 @12:00 PM

Red carpets and banana skins: Jane Campion and the Oscars hopefuls who jeopardised their chances

The Power of the Dog director has apologised for remarks about the Williams sisters, but they could cost her a gong. If so, she wouldn’t be the first nominee to fall from A-list to blacklist

Ryan Gilbey

17, Mar, 2022 @3:33 PM

Lights! Camera! Infraction! Mad Max shows why Hollywood indulges bad behaviour

Charlize Theron felt so threatened by Mad Max co-star Tom Hardy that she asked for a female producer as protection. Yet the industry still relies on film sets being lawless bubbles where you question macho posturing at your peril

Ryan Gilbey

24, Feb, 2022 @6:33 PM