Sigourney Weaver

Why Avatar: The Way of Water should win the best picture Oscar

People may sniff, but this was a superbly realised grand spectacle, which has done far more to literally save cinema than any of the other nominees

Steve Rose

01, Mar, 2023 @9:00 AM

Avatar: The Way of Water – the new aliens, daddy issues and Cameron’s message – discuss with spoilers

As we take a deeper dive into Pandora’s depths will this turn out to be The Empire Strikes Back of the seven-film saga?

Ben Child

20, Dec, 2022 @3:36 PM

‘It’s got to be an experience, first and foremost’: James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver and Kate Winslet on the return of Avatar

The director and actors discuss his typically gruelling film-making process, including learning to free dive, the tech v nature message of the new films – and why there’s still room for ‘big boy toys’

Steve Rose

16, Dec, 2022 @6:00 AM

Call Jane review – timely, if occasionally jarring, abortion drama

Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver are charismatic in Phyllis Nagy’s directorial debut, about a group of women in the 60s providing abortions outside the law

Wendy Ide

06, Nov, 2022 @11:00 AM

James Cameron releases extended trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water

New footage from the sequel to the highest-grossing movie of all time has been released on YouTube

Guardian film

02, Nov, 2022 @1:42 PM

‘We pick up where we left off’: Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline on working together again

Actors discuss their third film collaboration, an ‘elaborate hoax’ one pulled on the other and having more horny older characters

Benjamin Lee

29, Sep, 2022 @5:22 AM

Master Gardener review – Paul Schrader’s plantation drama struggles to blossom

Sigourney Weaver and Joel Edgerton can’t save this stilted, eccentric crime story

Peter Bradshaw

04, Sep, 2022 @2:29 PM

‘Sisters, you’re flowing through me!’ The director whose horror film channels centuries of female rage

Charlotte Colbert reflects on her debut film She Will, which sees a veteran actor channel the energy of women burned as witches against an ageing predator who groomed her decades earlier

Cath Clarke

08, Jul, 2022 @7:00 AM

Alien 3 at 30: David Fincher’s divisive threequel remains a fascinating failure

The first-time film-maker memorably disowned his grim and grimy Alien movie but a devoted fanbase insists it’s better than its bad reputation

Noah Gittell

22, May, 2022 @5:27 AM

A moment that changed me: a film director gave me the push I needed to finish my novel

I was desperate to finish my book but couldn’t afford a computer. Then a man I barely knew stepped in …

Courttia Newland

20, Apr, 2022 @7:00 AM

Call Jane review – abortion drama is sensitive if not revelatory

Screenwriter Phyllis Nagy’s film on the pre-Roe underground abortion network features strong performances but never rises to a rousing battle cry

Adrian Horton

24, Jan, 2022 @8:38 PM

Ridley Scott films – ranked!

With The Last Duel out now, and House of Gucci at the end of the month, we rate the top 20 movies by the go-to director for swords, sandals, cyborgs and Sigourney