A Clockwork Orange at 50: Stanley Kubrick’s biggest, boldest provocation
The controversial 1971 adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s button-pushing novel remains both utterly repellent and utterly compelling
June 2021
AI at 20: Spielberg’s misunderstood epic remains his darkest movie yet
The odd combination of Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg brings a unique quality to this heartbreaking story of a robot in search of love
January 2021
Space oddity: song rejected by Kubrick for 2001 released after 52 years
Stanley Kubrick asked a young publicist to write a track for his movie, but didn’t use it. Now we can all hear it
November 2020
Stanley Kubrick and Kirk Douglas wanted Doctor Zhivago movie rights
Director wrote to Boris Pasternak in late 1950s, previously unpublished material reveals
August 2020
Ranked
The top 10 long-awaited films – ranked!
Following substantial delays, anticipation is sky-high for Tenet and the new Bond, No Time to Die. But from Eraserhead to The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, plenty of movies have made their audiences wait
July 2020
Malcolm McDowell: 'I have no memory of doing most of my films'
He was once the embodiment of youthful rage and rebellion. Now, the Clockwork Orange star is reconciled to a life of golf, gangster flicks and the odd glimpse of genius
June 2020
10 of the best ...
From Platoon to Winter Soldier: 10 of the best Vietnam war films
As Spike Lee releases new war drama Da 5 Bloods, we look back at the ways cinema has represented the 20-year conflict
May 2020
Lockdown watch
Claes Bang: 'I've been watching a great Danish show … what was it called?'
The Shining at 40: will we ever fully understand what it all means?
March 2020
The classic film I've never seen
I've never seen … 2001: A Space Odyssey
The classic film I've never seen
I've never seen … The Shining
February 2020
Wellness or hellness?
Hyperbaric chamber therapy: I’m under a lot of pressure – and I love it!
Kirk Douglas obituary
Film blog
Kirk Douglas: a career in clips
Kirk Douglas: Hollywood's impossibly handsome Colossus of Rhodes
January 2020
Inside the odyssey: taking a closer look at Stanley Kubrick's 2001
At an expansive new exhibition in New York, the director’s defining science fiction opus is explored in detail with help from those who made it with him
December 2019
Sue Lyon, Kubrick's Lolita, dies aged 73
Actor who starred in the controversial 1962 adaptation of Nabokov’s novel as a 14-year-old never matched its impact in her subsequent career
November 2019
Eyes Wide Shut review – chilling secrecy, quaintly soft-porn sex
Doctor Sleep review – The Shining sequel has its own spooky sparkle
October 2019
Doctor Sleep review – sedate Shining sequel battles a new evil … boredom
Ewan McGregor as grownup Danny Torrance fights his own demons and others in this meandering follow-up to The Shining
