Guardian Unlimited: Film

Former Bond says interview in which he reportedly said Bond should be ‘English-English’ was taken out of context by both Paris Match and Daily MailRoger Moore has denied making racist comments about Idris Elba’s chances of replacing Daniel Craig as James Bond.

As cinemas gear up to release the latest 007 film, Spectre, the Guardian’s film critic looks back at how its predecessors measure upSean Connery’s first outing in the Bond role.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The actor, 86, on the women in his life, his humanitarian work – and Daniel Craig’s trunksI’m one lucky bastard. During my early acting years I was told that to succeed you needed personality, talent and luck in equal measure.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

From All the President’s Men to the Bourne series, wiretapping is widespread in Hollywood. No wonder Trump is twitchy …

‘There’s been talk of Stockholm syndrome with the Beast, but Belle changes him’Disney hired me to write a Winnie the Pooh spec that was never made. But chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg read it, and asked me to start working on Beauty and the Beast.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Has Disney really turned Beauty and the Beast into a feminist fairytale? Or is it all just posh frocks and women’s work with a slice of Stockholm syndrome thrown in?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Hollywood studio to make more family movies and rebrand TV channel after duds such as Ben-Hur and Star Trek BeyondWith Star Trek Beyond failing to hit warp speed and Zoolander 2 and Ben-Hur bonafide box office bombs, Paramount racked up one of its biggest losses last year.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

As the 1991 film that inspired Beyoncé heads to Blu-ray, its meditative take on the nature of the past and the future feels as vibrant and necessary as everIt’s now widely known Beyoncé’s Lemonade drew very heavily on the visuals of Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust and was instrumental in helping to bring the 1991 film back into the forefront of culture.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

British actor who found global fame in the rebooted Star Wars franchise to take lead role on London stageLike many overnight sensations, John Boyega worked on his craft for a very long time indeed before he became famous.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The original film was criticized for the way it dealt with skin-color prejudice within the black community, but the new series shows why skin tone matters