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The Guardian Film Show

All Episodes 2015

  • Ended
  • 2015-01-10T00:00:00Z
  • 25m
  • 14h 35m (35 episodes)
  • Documentary, Talk Show
In our weekly film video show, Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard review the latest big releases, we speak to the film-makers and stars of the moment … and much more

35 episodes

Host Henry Barnes is joined by the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw and Benjamin Lee to review the week's key releases. The team sail downstream on the leaky ship Lost River, Ryan Gosling's much-panned directorial debut, gawp as former assassin John Wick (Keanu Reeves) comes out of retirement following the murder of his puppy, empathise with Ethan Hawke's tormented drone pilot in Good Kill and enter Nirvana via Kurt Cobain documentary Montage of Heck

2015x22 San Andreas, The Goob, Timbuktu

  • 2015-05-28T00:00:00Z25m

In this week's show, Xan Brooks is joined by Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard to review the big releases, including 3D disaster movie San Andreas, starring Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson as a helicopter pilot who must rescue his wife and daughter from a pulverising San Francisco, The Goob, a coming-of-age tale set in East Anglia from first-time director Guy Myhill and Timbuktu, Abderrahmane Sissako's controversial drama about jihadis in an African village.

Peter Bradshaw and Benjamin Lee join Xan Brooks for our weekly review of the big new cinema releases. This week the team go undercover and over the top with Paul Feig's action-comedy Spy; idle along with John Boorman's semi-autobiographical Queen & Country; marvel at the troubling miracle of a modern virgin birth in Second Coming; and watch a literary talent do more wrong than write in indie comedy Listen Up Philip. Plus, interviews with Spy's Jason Statham and Miranda Hart and ... your questions answered!

Catherine Shoard and Peter Bradshaw join Xan Brooks for our round-up of the week's big cinema releases. This week the team saur dinos run riot once again in the Jurassic Park sequel Jurassic World; followed director Joshua Oppenheimer back to the killing fields of Indonesia via the stunning documentary The Look of Silence; and watched Rufus Norris put serial killing to song with London Road, a musical based on the murder of several prostitutes in Ipswich 9 years ago. Plus, an interview with The Look of Silence director Joshua Oppenheimer

In this week's Guardian film show, host Xan Brooks is joined by Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes to review Mr Holmes, in which Ian McKellen plays a nonagenarian Sherlock struggling to recall a case, Entourage, in which the four trusty bros from the HBO TV show belatedly make it to the big screen, Accidental Love – aka Nailed – David O Russell's 2008 comedy starring Jake Gyllenhaal and The Longest Ride, the 10th Nicholas Sparks movie, in which a college girl is romanced by a bull-rider.

In this week's show, Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes review Paul Dano and John Cusack as Brian Wilson in Love and Mercy; the return of Seth MacFarlane's foul-mouthed teddy bear in Ted 2; Justin Simien's race satire Dear White People and the final instalment in the Human Centipede horror series. Plus, the team answer your questions.

Catherine Shoard and Peter Bradshaw join Xan Brooks for our weekly round-up of the big cinema releases. This week the team map out a new section of the Marvel cinematic universe with super small superhero Ant-Man; listen to the deathly dull True Story of Jonah Hill and James Franco's new crime drama; watch director Oliver Hirschbiegel plot out the assassination of Hitler in just 13 Minutes; and see Sir Ben Kingsley nab Ryan Reynolds' body in sci-fi thriller Self/Less

Henry Barnes and Peter Bradshaw join Xan Brooks for our weekly round-up of the big cinema releases. This week the team watch feelings deal with their feelings in Pixar's pop psychology comedy Inside Out; nod along sagely with the studiously cool scenesters of Mia Hansen-Løve's French house film, Eden; go many rounds with Antoine Fuqua's thudding boxing drama Southpaw; and have a close shave with Robert Carlyle's directorial debut The Legend of Barney Thomson, about a hapless Glaswegian barber. Plus, an interview with Southpaw star Jake Gyllenhaal

Henry Barnes and Peter Bradshaw join Xan Brooks for our weekly round-up of the big cinema releases. This week our team of critics accept the spy games, insane stunts and insaner ab-flashing of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation; hitch a ride with Reese Witherspoon's pot-holed road comedy Hot Pursuit; scream through the desert with Michael Douglas in Beyond The Reach; and watch Adam Sandler search for soul in supernatural shoe drama The Cobbler.

Henry Barnes and Benjamin Lee join Xan Brooks for our weekly review of the big cinema releases. This week the team watch the first family of Marvel set out on another lacklustre film adventure in Fantastic Four; listen to the confessionals of a pair of mixed-up teens in the 70s-set comedy-romance The Diary of a Teenage Girl and transgender family drama 52 Tuesdays; and see Al Pacino (slightly) rejuvenated as a grumpy locksmith gone rusty with grief in David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn

Peter Bradshaw and Benjamin Lee join Xan Brooks for our weekly round-up of the big cinema releases. This week the team wobble off the rails with Amy Schumer in Judd Apatow’s femme-slob rom-com Trainwreck; have the run of New York with an also-ran in Noah Baumbach’s comedy Mistress America; see the thin blue line blurred in cop corruption documentary Precinct Seven Five; and watch Guy Ritchie take The Man from UNCLE for a spin and bring it back broken

Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes join Xan Brooks for our weekly round-up of the big cinema releases. This week the team wonder howl honest The Wolfpack, a documentary about a gang of brothers raised in semi-isolation, is being with us; watch Gemma Arterton wander listlessly around rural France in Posy Simmonds adaptation Gemma Bovery; follow Alejandro Jodorowsky on a wonky waltz through his childhood in The Dance of Reality; and see a dictator plummet from power in Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s satire The President.

Catherine Shoard and Peter Bradshaw join Xan Brooks for our weekly round-up of the big cinema releases. This week the team watch a long-term relationship get taken apart by long-term lies in Andrew Haigh’s 45 years; slide into a downer with Zac Efron clubbing catastrophe We Are Your Friends; bounce back up with the energetic NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton; and face the beauty and terror of Antonioni’s reissued classic L’Eclisse.

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