Smalltown sequel takes the action away from the city that made it exciting and turns it into a sub-Spielberg kids’ fantasy adventureThe Ghostbusters franchise now gets a pointless and ill-suited sequel-iteration, co-written and directed by Jason Reitma…
King Richard: ‘super surreal’ lives of Williams sisters is stuff of Hollywood films
Will Smith stars as the father of the precocious tennis talents in a movie depicting their improbable journeyThe story of Venus and Serena Williams’ rise to greatness, two legendary tennis careers propelled by the foresight of their father, has often b…
From The Card Counter to Diana Ross: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
Whether it is Vegas gamblers, Peruvian art treasures or one-off jazz collaborations you’re after, our critics have your plans for the week coveredThe Card CounterOut nowOscar Isaac (pictured, above) burns up the screen in the role of a former Guantánam…
Freeze!
François Leroy, aka Friendly Robot, is a concept artist, designer and creative director.Read more…
Hit Puzzle Game Unpacking Features 14,000 (!) Audio Files Replicating Ordinary Sounds
Unpacking is more than meets the ears. The chillwave puzzle game, developed by Brisbane-based Witch Beam and out this week for Switch, PC, and Xbox (via Game Pass), apparently features a whopping 14,000 individual Foley sound effects. No, that’s not a …
The Bonfire review – distinctive icy parable of guilt and remorse
Yakut director Dmitry Davydov’s first feature is an intriguing examination of redemption in Sakha, a remote Russian republicDmitry Davydov is the self-taught Russian director from the remote eastern republic of Sakha who has been gaining golden opinio…
Kathleen Stock’s departure shows universities can’t cope with argument | Rachel Cooke
Sadly, the philosopher’s resignation from Sussex is a victory for the bullies and anti-intellectualsHow profoundly depressing to hear that the philosopher Kathleen Stock has effectively been hounded from her chair at Sussex University by the mob. Howev…
Passing review – life is anything but black and white in Rebecca Hall’s smart period drama
Ruth Negga is magnetic in Hall’s adaptation of Nella Larsen’s story of race in 1920s HarlemAt a glamorous party in 1920s Harlem, a young black woman and an older white man perch at the edge of a dancefloor. “Can you always tell the difference?” he asks…
Juliet Stevenson: ‘The perception of women of my age is so reductive’
The actor, 65, on growing up in a loving family, recognising her partner, and getting more interesting while the parts she is offered get less interestingMy earliest memory is jumping off a little stone wall in the garden in Australia. I called it my j…
Original Observer Photography
A succession of actors, environmental activists and some live music – the best photographs commissioned by the Observer in October 2021 Continue reading…