David Chase

The Many Saints of Newark review – Sopranos prequel keeps it in the family

Michael Gandolfini is goosebump-inducing as the young Tony Soprano, amid race riots and antagonism towards rival African American gangs

Peter Bradshaw

21, Sep, 2021 @4:00 PM

West Side Story, a Sopranos prequel and Bond: the best films to see in autumn 2021

Spielberg revamps Bernstein, young Tony is lured by the mob, Phyllida Lloyd tackles spousal abuse, Top Gun returns – and Daniel Craig calls time on 007 with bangs galore

Peter Bradshaw

24, Aug, 2021 @7:00 AM

The Sopranos: David Chase and mobster Johnny Sack on how they made a TV classic

‘Fox turned down the first draft because I didn’t put any murders in it. People watch mob shows because they like to see murders’

Interviews by Rich Pelley

08, Mar, 2021 @3:12 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 – crime films and thrillers

The Sopranos gets a prequel, Jennifer Lawrence jumps back into action and Jim Broadbent stars as a real-life cabbie who stole a Goya in next year’s buzziest crime capers and thrillers

Guardian Film

26, Dec, 2019 @10:50 AM

David Chase on why he wrote The Sopranos: 'I needed help. I needed therapy'

As his mobster-in-therapy masterpiece is named the best TV of the century, its creator says he was just thrashing out his own issues with his domineering, suffocating mother

Emma Brockes

16, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM

Hate the Sopranos finale? You're not a real fan of the series | Lanre Bakare

The series ending is a masterstroke – don’t quibble with greatness, says culture editor and writer Lanre Bakare

Lanre Bakare

15, Jan, 2019 @9:00 AM

The Sopranos, glorious pioneer of today’s TV golden age | Dorian Lynskey

Twenty years ago, the depiction of a grisly murder helped spark a cultural big bang that still reverberates on our screens

Dorian Lynskey

13, Jan, 2019 @5:59 AM

David Chase to make Sopranos prequel movie The Many Saints of Newark

The Emmy-winning creator of the hit crime drama series will revive the franchise with a 60s-set film featuring some familiar characters

Guardian staff

08, Mar, 2018 @5:37 PM

Can you imagine a world without Star Wars, Harry Potter or Oasis?

Or how about The Sopranos as a film? From The Apprentice to Seinfeld, our writers have a tinker with pop cultural history

Tim Jonze, Gwilym Mumford, Hannah Jane Parkinson, Steve Rose, Jack Seale & Graeme Virtue

10, Dec, 2016 @9:00 AM

David Chase finally explains The Sopranos ending – or does he?

News: For a few short hours, it appeared as if Chase had revealed the fate of Tony Soprano – but of course, solving this seven-year-old mystery was never going to be so simple

Guardian TV

28, Aug, 2014 @9:13 AM