Star Wars
How Disney spoiled Star Wars
This week, the new Star Wars movie – the first live action film since 2019’s commercially successful but largely ridiculed…
The movie brats who changed popular cinema
Paul Fischer celebrates the ‘era of the new Hollywood blockbuster’, exemplified in the films of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola
Fantastic beasts and where to find them
Claudia Massie explores the cinematic majesty and mind-bending visual trickery of stop-motion wizard Ray Harryhausen
Darth Vader is dirty and it’s not just me that thinks so
Star Wars taught Hollywood how to make children’s films for adults, says Tanya Gold
Live long and prosper
Without sci-fi, there would be no cinema, writes Peter Hoskin
The real dilemma of artificial intelligence
Having written (for a Times diary) a few sentences about consciousness in robots, I settled back to study readers’ responses…
Barometer
The not-so-great charter David Cameron wants every child to be taught about Magna Carta. Some bits he might want to…
