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February 2024

  • Timothée Chalamet as Paul and Zendaya as Chani in Dune: Part Two.

    Dune: Part Two review – second half of hallucinatory sci-fi epic is staggering spectacle

    Denis Villeneuve’s monumental adaptation expands its extraordinary world of shimmering strangeness. It’s impossible to imagine anyone doing it better

September 2023

  • Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried in Mamma Mia! (2008).

    ‘Can they reincarnate me?’: Meryl Streep discusses options for Mamma Mia! 3

    The multi Oscar-winner and her co-stars in the hit 2008 Abba musical have revealed their enthusiasm for a second sequel – despite Streep’s character having died

August 2023

  • Bedside manner … Stellan Skarsgård and Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves.

    Breaking the Waves review – Emily Watson adds brilliance to von Trier’s windup of a movie

    In Lars von Trier’s otherwise ridiculous film, Watson brings generous substance to a punishing role as a dangerously selfless wife

December 2021

  • Hope.

    Hope review – sensitive study of the grief that lies behind a cancer diagnosis

    Stellan Skarsgård plays a man whose attention has been more focused on his career than his family wrestles with accepting his wife’s terminal illness

November 2021

  • 'Hope' photocall, Stockholm, Sweden - 14 Oct 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by IBL/REX/Shutterstock (10954229b)
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'Hope' photocall, Stockholm, Sweden - 14 Oct 2020

    The reader interview
    Stellan Skarsgård: ‘My tips for fatherhood? Don’t lie. Even about Santa Claus’

  • Stellan Skarsgård, who will take on your questions.

    The reader interview
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October 2021

  • Timothée Chalamet and Rebecca Ferguson in Dune.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Dune review – Denis Villeneuve’s awe-inspiring epic is a moment of triumph

    Villeneuve’s take on the sci-fi classic starring Timothée Chalamet, Oscar Isaac and Zendaya has been given room to breathe, creating a colossal spectacle

September 2021

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    First look review
    Dune review – blockbuster cinema at its dizzying, dazzling best

    Denis Villeneuve’s slow-burn space opera fuses the arthouse and the multiplex to create an epic of otherworldly brilliance

January 2020

  • ‘I’d never had any girl take an interest in me before acting’: Stellan Skarsgård.

    This much I know
    Stellan Skarsgård: ‘I don’t give advice to my children’

    The actor, 68, tells James McMahon about dreaming of being a diplomat, smashing telephones with skill and the days before Marvel ruled the world

December 2019

  •  How bad was it? Worse than you thought – so much worse … Chernobyl.

    2019 in TV
    The 50 best TV shows of 2019: No 3 – Chernobyl

    This tale of the 1986 Soviet nuclear meltdown combined disaster movie and conspiracy thriller into a near-perfect example of TV making

September 2019

  • The Painted Bird.

    The Painted Bird review – savage, searing three-hour tour of hell

    Stellan Skarsgård, Harvey Keitel and Udo Kier star in this phantasmagorical horror about eastern Europe that saw half the Venice audience walk out. I couldn’t look away

July 2018

  • Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Universal press publicity film still

    Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again review – feta fever dream sequel is weirdly irresistible

  • Cher and Meryl Streep

    Mamma Mia 2 makers hope to repeat box office success

September 2017

  • Stellan Skarsgård: ‘It’s kind of silly, isn’t it?’

    Borg vs McEnroe’s Stellan Skarsgård: ‘I’ve been changing diapers for 40 years’

    He’s both one of Sweden’s most prolific actors and the father of eight kids – including actors Alexander and Bill. So it’s no surprise that – despite starring in the nail-biting tennis drama – he doesn’t have much time for sport

February 2017

  • Stellan Skarsgard and Nina Hoss in Return to Montauk.

    Return to Montauk review – beached affair takes time to connect

    Past lovers Nina Hoss and Stellan Skarsgård border on the unlovable in this slow-paced drama, but Volker Schlöndorff’s film rewards patience for its final twist

May 2016

  • Shia Labeouf and John McEnroe

    Shia LaBeouf to play John McEnroe in movie of Wimbledon legend's 1980 battle with Borg

  • Stellan Skarsgard is excellent as a Russian gangster in Our Kind of Traitor.

    Our Kind of Traitor review – spy thriller without the wow

  • Troubled couple … Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris.

    Our Kind of Traitor review – Ewan McGregor gets smart in Le Carré potboiler

  • Damian Lewis Our Kind of Traitor

    Damian Lewis in a clip from John le Carré's Our Kind of Traitor - video

January 2016

  • Flying solo ... Harrison Ford’s role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens had made him the highest grossing actor of all time.

    Harrison Ford reclaims highest-grossing actor record from Samuel L Jackson

    The 73-year-old Ford nudged Jackson from the top of the all-time US box office list after appearing in the latest Star Wars adventure
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