Paul Greengrass

Forget Batgirl, where’s Superman Lives? The inside stories of Hollywood’s biggest abandoned films

Eliot Ness hunts a killer, Nicolas Cage plays the Man of Steel and Marilyn Monroe is The Girl in Pink Tights in films that were never released. A writer, a producer and a film expert tell the movies’ hidden histories

Lizzy Dening

12, Aug, 2022 @10:00 AM

From United 93 to Worth: how Hollywood grappled with 9/11

In the two decades since the terror attack on New York City, films and TV shows have tried to revisit or reflect on a culturally traumatic event

Adrian Horton

10, Sep, 2021 @5:37 PM

News of the World review – Tom Hanks fights fake news in the wild west

Paul Greengrass’s hybrid western, which has depth, beauty, topical resonance – and a mesmerising rising star

Mark Kermode Observer film critic

14, Feb, 2021 @8:00 AM

News of the World review – Tom Hanks rides straight down the middle in Paul Greengrass western | Peter Bradshaw's film of the week

Hanks’s former Confederate captain tries to help Helena Zengel’s terrified orphan across lawless post-civil war Texas in this Paul Greengrass western that rarely comes alive

Peter Bradshaw

05, Feb, 2021 @7:00 AM

Ten female directors make 2021 Baftas shortlist

Of the 20 films in director category, half have a female director or co-director, but there’s little love for Da 5 Bloods or Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Catherine Shoard

04, Feb, 2021 @4:57 PM

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 – dramas

Paul Thomas Anderson announces his new film, Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci play a long-term couple and Tom Hanks maximises his awards chances with three releases

Guardian Film

30, Dec, 2019 @2:47 PM

Utøya: July 22 – Is it right to make movies out of real-life acts of terrorism?

Two recent films portray events surrounding the horrific 2011 massacre in Norway. But do they really honour the victims?

Steve Rose

22, Oct, 2018 @8:59 AM

22 July review – Paul Greengrass’s tough telling of the Breivik massacre

The focus on the survivors of the 2011 Norwegian murders fails to give the docudrama new insights

Simran Hans

14, Oct, 2018 @7:00 AM

Massacre at the movies: why must cinema torture the young?

From Utoya to The Hate U Give, a new wave of films offer an unflinching vision of violence against children. What does the bloodletting tell us about how we live now?

Danny Leigh

12, Oct, 2018 @8:00 AM