JJ Abrams

The biggest new moneymaking scheme for Hollywood stars? Doing nothing | Arwa Mahdawi
Phoebe Waller-Bridge has received $60m from Amazon without making a new show, and it appears she’s not alone
Arwa Mahdawi
14, Apr, 2023 @5:00 AM

The Star Wars sequel trilogy was a galactic mess. Who should take the blame?
Rian Johnson has defended his contribution to the incoherent series – and he’s right: it wasn’t his fault they were an incoherent failure
Ben Child
02, Sep, 2022 @4:24 PM

JJ Abrams’ sci-fi series that was to be filmed in Northern Ireland cancelled
Production of Demimonde halted due to dispute between network HBO and director
Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent
09, Jun, 2022 @12:00 PM

‘A better deal than the Oscars’: the party celebrating the Irish in Hollywood
Jamie Dornan and Kenneth Branagh were honored at this year’s Oscar Wilde awards amid excitement over Belfast
Lois Beckett
27, Mar, 2022 @5:05 PM

‘Our fascination is rooted in hope’: why we’re so obsessed with UFOs
In a JJ Abrams-produced docuseries, the possible existence of alien life is given a serious and exhaustive examination
Veronica Esposito
17, Aug, 2021 @6:02 AM

Arif Hussein obituary
Other lives: Film producer, screenwriter and actor whose latest work, on refugees, is in production with Steven Spielberg and JJ Abrams
Kathryn Wolfe
25, Mar, 2021 @11:10 AM

Hear me out: why Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker isn't a bad movie
The latest in our series of writers defending unloved films is a defense of JJ Abrams’s troubled sci-fi sequel
Jordan Hoffman
15, Mar, 2021 @2:04 PM

Marvel's next wave of heroes will tear up tradition in the name of progress
Boundaries are being razed with Natalie Portman cast as Thor and Ta-Nehisi Coates set to write a black Superman film
Ben Child
12, Mar, 2021 @9:32 AM

Would George Lucas's Star Wars sequels have been better than Disney's?
It was a relief to many fans when the creator of Jar Jar Binks lost control of the space saga but his vision for the films that followed made a lot of sense
Ben Child
12, Nov, 2020 @3:48 PM

'Women are so much more than the way we look': Brittany O’Grady on Apple TV's Little Voice
The cast and creators of the musical drama on how it explores life for women in the music industry juggling jobs, low pay and teeny, tiny living spaces
Dylan B Jones
08, Jul, 2020 @9:30 AM

Can Taika Waititi revive the cosmic sweep of classic Star Wars?
Excellent film-maker that he is, Watiti seems to fit the Marvel blueprint far more easily than he does Star Wars’ more venerable, old-school template
Ben Child
07, May, 2020 @11:57 AM

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker review – may the ninth be with you…
JJ Abrams proves a safe pair of hands in this crowd-pleasing but unadventurous finale to the latest trilogy of the space opera
Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
22, Dec, 2019 @8:00 AM
1 / 29 pages