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Scott Tobias

July 2024

  • Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump.

    Forrest Gump at 30: a wildly popular movie that remains as light as a feather

    Tom Hanks is an affecting lead but the popularity of Robert Zemeckis’s much-loved Oscar-winner is still a curious mystery

June 2024

  • CHINATOWN<br>FAYE DUNAWAY &amp; JACK NICHOLSON ARTWORK Film 'CHINATOWN' (1974) Directed By ROMAN POLANSKI 20 June 1974 SSS73474 Allstar Collection/PARAMOUNT **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. For Editorial Use Only.

    Chinatown at 50: has there been a greater screenplay since?

  • Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic, Simba in The Lion King and Nancy Allen in Blow Out.

    ‘It always destroys me’: our writers on their saddest movie deaths

  • A cute, little, furry, brown-and-white magical creature, with wide black eyes and big pink ears, peeks out of a red toolbox.

    Gremlins at 40: Joe Dante’s untamed classic is a love letter to chaos

  • An expansive image in blue hues, of men in long black coats and hats crossing a damp street toward a boy in a newsboy hat, amid steam rising from the street beneath a bridge in New York City.

    Once Upon a Time in America at 40: Sergio Leone’s brutal gangster epic endures

May 2024

  • A composite of five images: a young white couple canoodling on a park bench, a scary white mask in a black hood, a white man holding up a young white woman's arm on a stage as if she's just won something, a white man on a motorcycle speeding on a road, and a cartoon cowboy.

    Alien? Mission: Impossible? Toy Story? What is the greatest movie franchise ever?

  • film still of man in a hat and child looking at something

    Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom at 40: Spielberg’s hit-and-miss relic

April 2024

  • black and white film still of man handing something to another man in an office

    The Conversation at 50: Francis Ford Coppola’s paranoid and predictive masterpiece

    The 1974 suspense thriller smartly predicted the increasing importance of technology and lack of privacy in our lives

March 2024

  • 2004, ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLE<br>JIM CARREY &amp; KATE WINSLET Character(s): Joel Barish &amp; Clementine Kruczynski Film 'ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND' (2004) Directed By MICHAEL GONDRY 19 March 2004 SSC8574 Allstar/FOCUS FEATURES **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of FOCUS FEATURES and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To FOCUS FEATURES is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind at 20: a love story that’s impossible to forget

    Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet forget they used to be in love in a wonderfully inventive and moving reminder of why romantic pain is an important thing to remember

February 2024

  • Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles.

    Blazing Saddles at 50: the button-pushing spoof that could never get made today

    The 1974 spin on westerns sees Mel Brooks pointing at the absurdity of racism and the history of human evil while always ensuring a steady stream of laughter

January 2024

  • black and white film still of man sitting on the floor next to a wheelchair wearing a suit and sunglasses with a gun in the air

    Dr Strangelove at 60: is this still the greatest big-screen satire?

  • Joker: Folie à Deux film still

    2024 culture preview
    From Megalopolis to Joker 2: the 2024 films Guardian writers are most excited about

December 2023

  • Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, Influencer and Outlaw Johnny Black

    The best films of 2023 … you may not have seen

  • four film stills: a couple in a room, a couple on a boat, a man and a child in a boat and an animated superhero

    Pigeons! Superheroes! Farts! The best movie moments of 2023

  • A black-and-white image of a very cold-looking outdoor setting, with snow on the ground. In the foreground, a man in a trenchcoat and hat holds a child, perhaps ten, across the shoulders as he speaks with an armed guard. Beyond them huddle dozens of people in coats.

    Schindler’s List at 30: Spielberg’s Holocaust drama is as essential as ever

  • A man in a beanie in front of a city skyline.

    Serpico at 50: a daring look at police corruption anchored by Al Pacino

November 2023

  • Will Ferrell in Elf

    Elf at 20: Will Ferrell ensures that this remains a Christmas staple

    A knockout performance anchors a mostly charming fish-out-of-water comedy that has remained a seasonal favorite ever since

October 2023

  • Final Destination, The Omen, The Mummy, Suspiria, and It Follows.

    ‘Viscerally terrifying’: writers on their scariest movie moments ever

    For Halloween, Guardian writers have looked back at their biggest movie nightmares, from The Omen to It Follows
  • composite image of Seven, Fight Club, The Social Network, Zodiac and Gone Girl

    From Seven to Gone Girl: writers on their favourite David Fincher movie

    As his chilly new Netflix thriller The Killer is released, Guardian writers look back on their top picks by the director
  • composite of Taxi Driver, The Wolf of Wall Street, Goodfellas, The Irishman and The Departed

    From Taxi Driver to The Irishman: our writers pick their favourite Scorsese movies

    With the highly anticipated release of Killers of the Flower Moon, Guardian writers look back at their top Scorsese films
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