Ghostbusters (2016)

Bill Murray’s 20 best performances – ranked!
As the actor swigs with Zac Efron and Russell Crowe in new comedy The Greatest Beer Run Ever – and celebrates his 72nd birthday – we rate Murray’s finest work
Hadley Freeman
29, Sep, 2022 @11:07 AM

Who ya gonna call? Ivan and Jason Reitman on resurrecting Ghostbusters together
Tears were inevitable when Hadley Freeman finally met the man behind her favourite film, and his son, who has made a belated second sequel. But few expected them to flow quite so freely
Hadley Freeman
19, Nov, 2021 @6:00 AM

Ghostbusters: Afterlife review – defanged retread that is lacking in spirit and laughs
Smalltown sequel takes the action away from the city that made it exciting and turns it into a sub-Spielberg kids’ fantasy adventure
Peter Bradshaw
17, Nov, 2021 @2:00 PM

Has Ghostbusters: Afterlife forgotten it is supposed to be funny?
Teenagers take over in the latest reboot of the comedy franchise – but trailers suggest the mood will be more Stranger Things than laugh-out-loud slimefest. Are fans right to be spooked?
Ben Child
30, Jul, 2021 @12:16 PM

Can Ghostbusters: Afterlife unite fans of the original and the 2016 reboot?
With Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd set to return, nostalgia for the first film should be well served. But director Jason Reitman is also a fan of the all-female sequel
Ben Child
09, Apr, 2021 @11:49 AM

TV tonight: Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar open another cold case
The fourth series of Unforgotten gets under way. Plus: MasterChef Australia Junior welcomes a new brigade. Here’s what the watch this evening
Ammar Kalia, Hannah Verdier, Jack Seale, Phil Harrison and Paul Howlett
22, Feb, 2021 @6:20 AM

Melissa McCarthy's 20 best films – ranked!
With the actor’s new release, Superintelligence, seeing her try to save the world, here’s a look at the films that made her a comedy star
Peter Bradshaw
26, Nov, 2020 @12:00 PM

Paul Feig: 'Male humour always devolves into homophobia and name-calling'
The director adores working with women – but did the all-female Ghostbusters furore change that? Not a bit, he says
Rebecca Nicholson
18, Oct, 2019 @7:00 AM

Who ya gonna call? Ivan Reitman sends son Jason to direct Ghostbusters 3
Up in the Air film-maker to take charge of ‘secret’ sequel to father’s original comedies, unconnected to Paul Feig’s contentious 2016 female reboot
Andrew Pulver
16, Jan, 2019 @11:50 AM

Mary Poppins, The BFG and Spectre: your complete Christmas film guide
The best festive films, from the classic The Grand Budapest Hotel, to modern favourites such as Up and Brooklyn, plus the creepy baby from Twilight and everything in between
Paul Howlett and Phil Harrison
15, Dec, 2018 @10:00 AM

Claws out: how Black Panther fought off a toxic Ghostbusters-style online campaign
The pushback against an attempt to lower the superhero movie’s score on Rotten Tomatoes has show that culture war’s latest battleground is still raging
Graeme Virtue
05, Feb, 2018 @1:05 PM

Lord of the Flies to Ocean’s Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender
The plan for an all-girls remake of the dystopian 1960s classic is just one of many new projects reimagining hit films with female leads
Emine Saner
02, Sep, 2017 @11:05 PM
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