Jordan Peele

Writer and director Jordan Peele

Twenty new horror films to scare the living daylights out of you

Whether you prefer big-budget spectacles or subversive indie splatter fests, there’s something for everyone to enjoy this Halloween

Sat Oct 29 2022 - 05:00

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Absolute bloody rubbish

Review: There’s very little to be said for this squalid sequel to the 1974 original

Fri Feb 18 2022 - 05:00

Candyman: There goes the neighbourhood, again

This sequel to the horror classic is a blood-soaked treatment of the United States’ racial tensions

Fri Aug 27 2021 - 05:00

The best new movies coming to cinema and TV this summer

Films are once again being shown on big screens, as well as on Netflix and Disney+

Sun Jun 27 2021 - 05:00

US pop culture has struggled to come to terms with Trumpism

The angry pop culture of the Nixon years is better than that of the Trump era

Sat Oct 31 2020 - 05:00

Koko-di Koko-da: The singing villain will haunt your dreams

Review: Johannes Nyholm’s unforgettable woodland reverie is grotesque and glorious

Fri Sept 11 2020 - 05:00

Lovecraft Country: American TV shows its true colours. And it’s exhilarating

Racist sheriffs, not tentacled beasts, provide the real scares in this take on Jim Crow’s US

Tue Aug 18 2020 - 10:55

Emma Dabiri: On My Culture Radar

The author and activist on Jordan Peele’s comedy, the art of Genieve Figgis and why Philosophy Tube is her YouTube channel of choice

Sat Feb 22 2020 - 05:00

Hunters: There’s not enough Al Pacino in this absurd, overheated Nazi hunter drama

TV review: Hunters founders under a dead weight of recycled Quentin Tarantino-isms

Fri Feb 21 2020 - 06:00

Life after care: ‘We’re all just trying to grow up’

‘There are over 6,000 kids in the care system and there are 6,000 different stories’

Sat Feb 15 2020 - 06:00

Daniel Isn’t Real: Trippy but very creepy

Review: Schwarzenegger makes for an imposing shadow to Robbins’ hapless hero

Fri Feb 07 2020 - 09:46

Film is still dodging bullets despite being under heavy fire

The Decade in Culture: As we move into the roaring twenties many things remain the same about the seventh art

Sat Dec 21 2019 - 05:00

Fifty Shades, Kanye, Love/Hate: The films, TV, books and music that defined the decade

The Decade in Culture: The most impactful books, series and performers of 2010-19

Fri Dec 20 2019 - 06:00

The best 50 films of 2019: Odd, rich, startlingly varied. And brilliant

We start with Monos, Marriage Story and Midsommar. Find out what else makes the cut

Sun Dec 08 2019 - 06:00

Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood review: Exhilarating and infuriating

The film isn’t about the murder of Sharon Tate and friends in 1969. It’s about the end of eras

Tue Aug 13 2019 - 10:00

The untold stories of Toy Story

Woody started out as a jerk, Barbie is a Marxist . . . much like Andy’s toys, the fan theories around the franchise have taken on a life of their own

Fri Jun 21 2019 - 06:15

Toy Story 4: A bolted-on afterthought to a tidy trilogy

Review: It’s not an embarrassment but Toy Story 4 is not a top-flight Pixar movie

Fri Jun 21 2019 - 05:00

Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend

New this weekend: Us is a macabre American satire from the maker of Get Out

Fri Mar 22 2019 - 06:00

Us: Macabre American satire from the maker of Get Out

Review: All credit to a cast that includes Lupita Nyong’o and Elisabeth Moss

Wed Mar 20 2019 - 10:05

New wacky sci-fi future justifies cost of YouTube Premium

Web Log: Jordan Peele’s Weird City is one of best YouTube Original series

Thu Mar 14 2019 - 08:15

Lorena Bobbitt: I was the subject of so many jokes. It was just cruel

She was famous for cutting off her husband’s penis. A new documentary tells the full tale

Tue Mar 12 2019 - 11:53

Barry Jenkins: ‘Being poor and black in Miami was all I knew’

The 'If Beale Street Could Talk' director on the Oscars mix-up and what's next

Sat Feb 02 2019 - 05:00

Nothing like a little luck to swerve the box-office sinkhole

It’s good to admit that line between hits and flops can be unpredictable

Tue Jan 22 2019 - 05:55

Spike Lee: ‘Nothing Trump has done has surprised me’

His 25th film tackles US racism but director says far right's rise a global phenomenon

Thu Aug 23 2018 - 05:00

BlacKkKlansman: New Spike Lee movie is funny, agitated and dynamic

Review: Spike Lee also manages something unexpected from a political film: warmth

Tue Aug 21 2018 - 10:31

Gabrielle Union: ‘We are underrepresented compared to white men’

‘Breaking In’ star and producer talks about her new film, and the long road ahead to achieve fair representation

Fri May 04 2018 - 06:30

Which films will be up for next year’s Oscars? These ones will

Donald Clarke predicts 2019’s Best Picture nominees. He was nearly half right this year

Tue Mar 06 2018 - 16:24

Independent Spirit Awards: ‘Get Out’ wins best picture and best director

On eve of Oscars Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell win awards for Martin McDonagh’s ‘Three Billboards’

Sun Mar 04 2018 - 16:53

Oscars 2018: Who’ll win, who won’t and 10 other questions

Who is in the running to win the Oscars in every category?

Sat Mar 03 2018 - 05:00

Oscars 2018: 10 talking points from the nominations

Netflix has its first nod, Cinematography has its first woman, ‘Three Billboards’ could struggle

Tue Jan 23 2018 - 17:12

Oscars 2018: full list of nominations

Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin McDonagh’s ‘Three Billboards’ and Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon nominated

Tue Jan 23 2018 - 15:28

Golden Globes: Everything you need to know

It’s shaping up to be a big night for Saoirse Ronan and the #MeToo movement

Sun Jan 07 2018 - 07:00

The best in film 2017, according to the Dublin Film Critics Circle

Dunkirk blows away the competition

Thu Dec 14 2017 - 16:38

So what is the meaning of Lowery’s existential fable ‘A Ghost Story’?

Writer-director thinks there may be a Catholic sensibility underscoring his new film

Fri Aug 11 2017 - 05:00