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Ron Howard

May 2024

  • man in a baseball cap and a pale grey jacket

    Ron Howard on Jim Henson: ‘You could see there was nothing to hide’

    The Oscar-winning film-maker discusses his documentary about the legendary puppeteer and his unwavering desire to experiment

February 2024

  • Sophie Wilde won the award for best lead actress at the 2024 Aacta awards for her role in the horror film Talk To Me.

    Australian arts in focus
    Horror film Talk To Me cleans up at 2024 Aacta awards

    Film takes home awards for best film and direction – with Deadloch, The New Boy, The Newsreader and Margot Robbie also winning big

August 2023

  • The future could not have been brighter for everyone involved in American Graffiti, which launched too many hit TV shows and movies and acting careers to count.

    American Graffiti at 50: a classic hangout comedy with a surprising melancholy

    George Lucas’s 60s-set tale of California teens offers some freewheeling fun but also a lingering sadness

November 2022

  • Warwick Davis reprises his role as Willow Ufgood In Willow.

    ‘David Bowie had seven pairs of socks down his tights’: Warwick Davis on reboots, relationships and rock stars

    George Lucas wrote Willow for Warwick Davis after seeing him play an Ewok in Star Wars. As the actor returns as the baby-saving sorcerer, he talks about Val Kilmer pep talks, the Harry Potter shoot – and channelling a Ricky Gervais sitcom

July 2022

  • Viggo Mortensen and Colin Farrell in Thirteen Lives. Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures

    Thirteen Lives review – thrilling dramatisation of the Thailand cave rescue

    Ron Howard’s recreation of the 2018 rescue of a Thai junior football team is an impressively claustrophobic piece of cinema
  • Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton and Viggo Mortensen in Thirteen Lives.

    Thirteen Lives review – Ron Howard’s Thai cave-rescue saga told with non-Hollywood heroics

    Howard gives this stunning true story the Apollo 13 treatment but swerves Elon Musk’s grotesque ‘pedo’ comment
  • Colin Farrell as John Volanthen, Joel Edgerton as Richard ‘Harry’ Harris and Viggo Mortensen as Rick Stanton in Thirteen Lives.

    Going underground: inside Ron Howard’s explosive movie about the Thai cave rescue

    Viggo Mortensen plays a heroic firefighter in new movie Thirteen Lives, based on the dramatic 2018 rescue of 12 boys and their coach in Thailand. But the film isn’t simply a white-saviour narrative, as its director explains

June 2022

  • Down the rabbithole

    Down the rabbit hole
    What links Nixon and the Kennedys to the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park? We go down a rabbit hole to find out

    With a new Jurassic World film on the loose, let’s follow Laura Dern, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Richard Nixon down the rabbit hole on a dinosaur hunt

February 2021

  • A still from The Dilemma.

    Hear me out
    Hear me out: why The Dilemma isn't a bad movie

    The latest in our series of writers defending maligned films is a reappraisal of Ron Howard’s starry relationship comedy

November 2020

  • This image released by Netflix shows Owen Asztalos, left, and Amy Adams in a scene from “Hillbilly Elegy.” (Lacey Terrell/Netflix via AP)

    How Hillbilly Elegy tries and fails to show the 'real' America

    Ron Howard’s misjudged adaptation of JD Vance’s bestselling memoir is both histrionic and boring – and too shallow to act as social commentary
  • Glenn Close and Amy Adams in Hillbilly Elegy

    Hillbilly Elegy review – Glenn Close and Amy Adams trade Appalachian cliches

    Close and Adams are all platitudes and prosthetics in Ron Howard’s hackneyed adaptation of a rags-to-riches memoir
  • HILLBILLY ELEGY: (L to R) Haley Bennett (“Lindsay”), Glenn Close (“Mamaw”),Owen Asztalos (“Young J.D. Vance”). Photo Cr. Lacey Terrell/NETFLIX © 2020

    Hillbilly Elegy review – Glenn Close's grouchy gran saves the day

    A troubled teenager ends up at Yale Law School thanks to his eccentric grandmother in this adaptation of JD Vance’s bestselling memoir

October 2020

  • Hillbilly Elegy 3

    Trailer review
    Hair, glasses, Santa puppy T-shirt: get the Glenn Close Hillbilly Elegy look

    She might be best described as Jeremy Kyle Mrs Doubtfire, but I predict Glenn Close’s character will be your next style icon. Here are her looks from the trailer – ranked!

September 2020

  • Scattered … a man at his trailer on the edge of town, in Rebuilding Paradise.

    Rebuilding Paradise review – after the wildfire in a California town

  • Director Ron Howard

    Ron Howard: 'I'm introverted and risk-averse. But not when there's a story to be told'

June 2020

  • Heartwarming … Robert Selby and his son in Dads.

    Dads review – stars report from the frontline of fatherhood

  • Bryce Dallas Howard and her father Ron Howard in Dads

    Bryce Dallas Howard: 'Dads changing diapers is still somehow revolutionary'

July 2019

  • Pavarotti film still

    Pavarotti review – syrupy tribute to the legendary tenor

    From Bono to Domingo, the stars line up to sing the praises of their late friend in Ron Howard’s heart-sinking documentary

June 2019

  • This image released by Lucasfilm shows Alden Ehrenreich and Joonas Suotamo in a scene from “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” (Jonathan Olley/Lucasfilm via AP)

    Star Wars trolls to blame for Solo's box-office failure, says Ron Howard

    Director says ‘aggressive’ campaign staged via review aggregator sites was a major factor in spin-off film’s meagre ticket sales

May 2018

  • Alden Ehrenreich and Joonas Suotamo in Solo: A Star Wars Story.

    Week in geek
    How can Star Wars get back on track after Solo's disappointing debut?

    Solo: A Star Wars Story points to a promising future for the space saga. Here is what the beleaguered studio must do to move the franchise forward
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