George Clooney

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

I’ve started, so I’ll panic: what it’s really like to go on Mastermind

I applied for the quiz show to get bragging rights over my pub quiz teammates. Then I found myself sweating in the famous chair. What had I done?

Sirin Kale

11, Feb, 2022 @10:00 AM

The Tender Bar review – George Clooney directs almost farcically uneventful 70s-set drama

Amiable is the best that can be said of this adaptation of JR Moehringer’s Long Island coming-of-age memoir

Wendy Ide

19, Dec, 2021 @12:30 PM

The Tender Bar review – George Clooney’s pain-free coming-of-age tale is a gritless oyster

This adaptation of JR Moehringer’s memoirs, directed by Clooney, is strikingly empty of plausible emotion

Peter Bradshaw

15, Dec, 2021 @12:00 PM

Interview series is a December delight | Brief letters

Letters: Hadley Freeman | The joy of musicals | School inspections | Burglars

Letters

06, Dec, 2021 @5:40 PM

‘I was offered $35m for one day’s work’: George Clooney on paydays, politics and parenting

The Oscar-winner discusses directing the coming-of-age drama The Tender Bar, raising twins in a pandemic and choosing causes over cash

Hadley Freeman

03, Dec, 2021 @6:00 AM

Toast of the town: why George Clooney’s Warburtons ad is the best thing since sliced bread

The suave superstar follows Stallone, De Niro and Kermit the Frog in hawking Warburton. Let’s put the results under the grill

Stuart Heritage

07, May, 2021 @11:37 AM

Hear me out: why Tomorrowland isn’t a bad movie

The latest in our series of writers sticking up for maligned films is a defence of Brad Bird’s imaginative sci-fi adventure with George Clooney

Al Horner

23, Apr, 2021 @6:29 AM

Sitting in a tin can: why sci-fi films are finally telling astronaut life like it is

New Netflix drama Stowaway is the latest in a crop of movies that suggests space travel is more random death and boredom than warp speed nine

Nicholas Barber

14, Apr, 2021 @11:54 AM

George Clooney joins reboot of classic sci-fi series Buck Rogers

Star to be executive producer, with reports new series will go back to 1928 story Armageddon 2419 AD

Lanre Bakare

29, Jan, 2021 @1:55 PM

From apocalypse beards to Zoom shrugs: this week’s fashion trends

What’s hot and what’s not in fashion this week

22, Jan, 2021 @7:00 AM

Grizzly II review: long-lost George Clooney horror is truly unbearable

Laura Dern and Timothy Spall are among the stars-to-be in this abandoned project, now finished for a cynical belated release