Barry Keoghan as John Lennon? Who Sam Mendes should cast in his Beatles movies
Following the news that Mendes will direct four fab films about the Fab Four, our critic picks his fantasy lineup
‘Nothing off limits’: Sam Mendes to direct four Beatles films – one about each member
Director of 1917 announces ambitious project which has full approval of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the families of John Lennon and George Harrison
The Hills of California review – Jez Butterworth’s fractious family of singing sisters
The Jerusalem playwright’s new drama, directed by Sam Mendes, follows four siblings coached as children to become stars and now reunited at their mother’s bedside
June 2023
‘I’ve become more fearless’: Tuppence Middleton on OCD, motherhood and playing Elizabeth Taylor
The Downton Abbey actor loves to keep a low profile. So how does she feel about portraying one of Hollywood’s most glamorous and headline-grabbing stars – and writing a book about her own mental health?
Safe pair of hands or time for a shakeup: who’s going to get the biggest job in UK theatre?
After Rufus Norris’s departure from the National Theatre, who is most likely to be the London powerhouse’s next artistic director? We look at eight potential candidates
Best culture of 2023 so far
The best films of 2023 so far
Cate Blanchett’s unravelling conductor, Spielberg’s semi-memoir and the stop-motion tale of a shell wearing shoes all feature in the pick of the year released in the UK to date
May 2023
The week in theatre: The Motive and the Cue; A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction; Jules et Jim; Supernova – review
The Motive and the Cue review – Gielgud and Burton battle it out
April 2023
‘We get inside their shame, their ego, their destruction’: Jack Thorne brings Burton and Gielgud back to the stage
The Motive and the Cue depicts John Gielgud’s struggle to direct Richard Burton in Hamlet on Broadway. Its writer describes the task of putting his words into such celebrated mouths
February 2023
The Lehman Trilogy review – Sam Mendes’ banking saga returns with dividends
From She Said to Devotion: this season’s ignored Oscarbait movies
January 2023
Heavenly powers or something rotten? When Richard Burton played Hamlet
It was a box-office hit directed by John Gielgud and created turmoil on stage and off. Now, the 1964 Broadway staging has inspired The Motive and the Cue, a new play by Jack Thorne
The great era of going to the movies is dying, says Sam Mendes
Director, whose new film is a love letter to cinema, says many of his past hits would have been for streaming
Empire of Light review – Sam Mendes’s sprawling love letter to cinema
‘She’s breaking the walls down!’ Olivia Colman and Sam Mendes on mothers, mental illness and the movies
You ask the questions
Sam Mendes: ‘Who would make a great Bond villain? José Mourinho’
December 2022
2023 culture preview
The best films of 2023 to look forward to
New movies from Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, Sam Mendes, Greta Gerwig and Florian Zeller, among others, mean there’s a feast of cinema to look forward to in the coming months
November 2022
Johnny Flynn and Mark Gatiss to play Richard Burton and John Gielgud in new play
You ask the questions
Send us your questions for Sam Mendes
September 2022
Toronto film festival 2022 roundup – Spielberg, Mendes and a deep, joyous love of cinema
Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes offered paeans to the silver screen, Viola Davis dazzled as a gung-ho warrior and Daniel Craig brought the house down
