Ghostbusters: Afterlife

TV tonight: can strangers acting out movie sex scenes lead to romance?

Channel 4’s new dating show asks singletons to recreate sex scenes from TV and film. Plus 1989 revisited in music. Here’s what to watch tonight

Hollie Richardson, Graeme Virtue, Phil Harrison, Jack Seale and Simon Wardell

13, May, 2022 @5:20 AM

Have we witnessed the death of the Hollywood remake?

Meagre turnout for West Side Story shows that these days, the way to cash in on intellectual property is via sequels and reboots

Nicholas Barber

20, Dec, 2021 @2:52 PM

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

Ghostbusters: Afterlife review – a slimy, stinking corpse of a sequel

Jason Reitman takes over his father’s franchise and immediately tanks it with a tonally misjudged blend of fan service and bizarrely played-straight spectacle

Charles Bramesco

11, Oct, 2021 @2:13 PM

Actor Carrie Coon: ‘My husband says I have ice-water in my veins’

The star of Fargo and The Leftovers on performing with Jude Law, sophisticated British audiences, and her ‘showmance’ with husband Tracy Letts

Michael Hogan

15, Aug, 2021 @12:00 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

Sigourney Weaver’s 20 best films – ranked!

With her new film My New York Year released on 21 May, plus Ghostbusters: Afterlife and endless new Avatars in the offing, we sift through the career of Hollywood’s imperious, stylish powerhouse

Peter Bradshaw

06, May, 2021 @11:30 AM

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

War epics, airmen and young Sopranos: essential films for 2020

Daniel Craig bows out as Bond, the original Ghostbusters make a slimy return and Dickens gets a razor-sharp reboot – our preview of movie highlights this year

Peter Bradshaw

01, Jan, 2020 @9:00 AM

The most exciting movies of 2020 – blockbusters

Maverick swoops back on screen, Ghostbusters comes back to life and the 25th Bond film arrives (finally) in next year’s impressive array of big-budget knockouts

Guardian film

24, Dec, 2019 @7:00 AM