Logan

How The Predator remake is ushering in a new golden age of gore

Before family-friendly PG-13 became the norm, action hits relied on blood and guts. Post-Deadpool, we’re in the midst of a sea change

Steve Rose

03, Sep, 2018 @9:00 AM

Bravo, Ethan Hawke, for showing us that superhero films have no clothes | Caspar Salmon

It’s high time critics like me were more demanding of the all-conquering genre, says film writer Caspar Salmon

Caspar Salmon

28, Aug, 2018 @2:44 PM

Ethan Hawke: superhero movies are overrated

The actor has drawn anger for comments suggesting that commercial concerns are behind presentation of films such as Logan as highbrow entertainment

Catherine Shoard

27, Aug, 2018 @11:14 AM

Hugh Jackman superhero film Logan most complained-about film of 2017

BBFC’s worst offender list topped by X-Men spin-off, Indian epic Padmaavat and violent Charlize Theron spy romp Atomic Blonde

Andrew Pulver

19, Jul, 2018 @12:55 PM

Boba Fett Star Wars movie in the works

Logan director James Mangold will helm the long-gestating origins story, which will become the third Star Wars ‘anthology’ film after Rogue One and Solo

Andrew Pulver

25, May, 2018 @10:42 AM

The best films of 2017 so far

La La Land and The Love Witch wove magic, Moonlight and Lion wrung out tears, while Get Out and Lady Macbeth got nasty. Plus, there were striking debuts, returns to form by seasoned directors and reunions for the Trainspotting rogues

Gwilym Mumford and Andrew Pulver

07, Feb, 2018 @12:35 PM

From Blade Runner 2049 to It: Week in geek's top science fiction and fantasy films of 2017

Hugh Jackman’s grumpy mutant returned, Stephen King’s sinister clown terrorised audiences and The Last Jedi mesmerised us. But the dystopian wonder of Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 triumphed over all

Ben Child

26, Dec, 2017 @8:00 AM

The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: the full list

A heartrending coming-of-age love story tops our assessment of the best films on US screens over the past year, pipping a kid’s-eye view of Florida, political intrigue, dystopian futures and nightmarish presents

05, Dec, 2017 @12:00 PM

The 50 top films of 2017 in the UK: the full list

A heartrending love story tops our list of the year’s best films, which also features a kids’-eye view of Florida, political horror, erotic thrills, sci-fi noir, ghosts, grief and communism

05, Dec, 2017 @9:00 AM

Marvel, DC, whatever ... why all superhero movies look the same these days

Pow! DC’s Batman packs a comic punch in the new Justice League trailer – but isn’t humour Marvel’s shtick? Should movie fans look to films from other studios – such as new Wolverine and Spider-Man spin-offs – for fresh heroic twists?

Ben Child

31, Oct, 2017 @11:48 AM

Is climate change Hollywood's new supervillain?

Eco-thriller Geostorm, with Gerard Butler as a weather-busting scientist, is the latest movie to battle the environment. From Blade Runner 2049 to Alexander Payne’s Downsizing, film are turning up the heat on the big screen

Graeme Virtue

19, Oct, 2017 @11:18 AM