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August 2024
‘Sue Johnston’s first day on set, she was biting someone’s nose off’: Ben Wheatley on his zombie drama Generation Z
Autumn arts preview 2024
Rivals to Slow Horses: the must-see TV for autumn 2024
August 2023
Klokkenluider review – tough-guy actor Neil Maskell directs brooding black comedy
There is something of In Bruges about this Belgium-set tale of whistleblowers in hiding, with a little bit of David Brent
Neil Maskell: ‘If me and Idris Elba got into a physical altercation, I’d last about a second!’
From terrifying audiences in Kill List to squaring up to Elba in airline thriller Hijack, the actor has made his name playing a host of wrong’uns. Now he’s leaving the baddies behind to direct a Belgium-based whistleblower drama
Meg 2: The Trench review – Jason Statham v seamonsters, round two
Director Ben Wheatley serves up a busy but flavourless bouillabaisse of ideas nicked from Jaws, Jurassic Park, Alien and Sharknado, and leaves it to Statham to occasionally raise a droll smile
February 2023
The seven best films to watch on TV this week
The Strays to Kill List: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Ashley Madekwe heads up a smart, snappy psychological thriller about escaping a murky past, while Ben Wheatley’s visceral film about a hitman really packs a punch
August 2021
Blood, gore and a healthy dose of catharsis: why horror can be good for us
A grisly feast of scary British films is heading our way. Why now? Once seen as ‘video nasties’, many believe they have a positive role to play in a pandemic
June 2021
Mark Kermode's film of the week
In the Earth review – a breath of frightening fresh air from Ben Wheatley
Wheatley unleashes an hallucinogenic horror story of madness, malevolence and mushrooms
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
In the Earth review – Ben Wheatley’s trippy occult horror is a fine return to form
This low-budget folk-horror is back in Wheatley’s weird, sly world as Joel Fry and Ellora Torchia get lost in the forest
Observer New Review Q&A
Ben Wheatley: ‘Early on the pandemic felt like a time for getting a crossbow ready to hunt for petroleum’
The director on his new horror movie set during a pandemic, fearing he’d never work again, and why audiences love Jason Statham
May 2021
Reopening culture
From Black Widow to unseen Beatles footage: what films to see as cinemas reopen
The dazzling Nomadland leads the way with a medieval thriller, a Ben Wheatley chiller and Emma Stone’s Cruella hot on its heels
January 2021
First look review
In the Earth review – Ben Wheatley's patchy pandemic folk horror
Sundance 2021: which films might break out this year?
October 2020
Lily James: 'I got sucked into the vortex. I didn't know which way to turn'
She made her name playing sunny sweethearts, but now James is going gothic in a new Rebecca. She talks getting spooked on set, Covid bubbles and co-stars
Rebecca review – perfectly watchable romp
Kristin Scott Thomas is a flawless Mrs Danvers in Ben Wheatley’s conventional take on the Du Maurier classic
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Rebecca review – overdressed and underpowered romantic thriller
Ben Wheatley’s take on the Daphne du Maurier story has moments of spectacle and disquiet but hunky Armie Hammer is miscast as the troubled widower
September 2020
Call me by my dead wife's name: can Netflix persuade us we need another Rebecca?
You read the book, you know the drill. Will Armie Hammer and Lily James offer any surprises? You already know the answer
August 2019
Ben Wheatley to direct zombie-pensioner TV satire on divided Britain
Kill List and High-Rise director’s drama for Channel 4 will skewer tensions between age groups
October 2018
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead review – Ben Wheatley contrives a simmering hothouse of misery
Neil Maskell is the standout performer in Wheatley’s drama of dysfunction, as a man inviting his family to a New Year party in the country
February 2018
Best films
The best films of 2017 so far
La La Land and The Love Witch wove magic, Moonlight and Lion wrung out tears, while Get Out and Lady Macbeth got nasty. Plus, there were striking debuts, returns to form by seasoned directors and reunions for the Trainspotting rogues
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