Anthony Hopkins | The Guardian
- ️Sun Feb 16 2025
February 2025
‘The snake fell out of my wig’: why Judi Dench lost her voice when playing Cleopatra
The actor recalls a terrifying moment when playing the doomed Egyptian queen during a 1987 production of the Shakespeare classic
January 2025
LA wildfires: key things to know about the blazes so far
What began as a wildfire in Pacific Palisades on Tuesday has expanded to five fires still burning fiercely on Thursday
December 2024
Why Anthony Hopkins’ Netflix Herod is Hot Frosty 2 – sort of
Mary review – turgid bibical tale has you rooting for Anthony Hopkins’ hammy Herod
November 2024
Paul Mescal interviews Ridley Scott: ‘I was so ahead of the game. The Oxbridge lot were aghast’
As Gladiator II roars into the arena, its Oscar-winning director and star talk about horse-riding, Blade Runner, vodka, Scorsese, Elon Musk, vulnerability, AI … and Russell Crowe
July 2024
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Those About to Die; Lady in the Lake; The Jetty; Simone Biles Rising – reviewAnthony Hopkins fights for his life in a Game of Thrones-lite ancient Rome; Natalie Portman is a small-screen natural; a great twist lifts a clunking crime drama; and from trauma to domestic bliss with the star gymnast
TV review
Those About to Die review – Anthony Hopkins’s Rome epic is disgustingly effectiveThis attempt to be Game of Thrones in togas is all about the cheap thrills. It’s packed with gore, gladiators and gratuitous brothel tours
The watcher
Those About to Die: this mega-budget Roman epic is as close to actual time travel as it’s possible to getBlood, guts, gore and Anthony Hopkins … this swords-and-sandals extravaganza may only be historically accurate-ish, but it’s the best ancient Rome to ever grace our screens
June 2024
Freud’s Last Session review – what-if meeting of minds with Anthony Hopkins as the master analyst
Best culture of 2024 so far
The best films of 2024 in the UK so far
April 2024
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver review – Zack Snyder’s bombastically fun sequel
The divisive director’s sci-fi follow-up is both original and derivative and will be unlikely to convert anyone, but there’s something charming about its sincerity
January 2024
One Life review – stirring tale of the ‘British Schindler’ predictably told
James Hawes’s workmanlike biopic of Nicholas Winton, who saved 669 children from the Nazis, is lifted by a stellar cast
One Life marketing materials altered following Jewish backlash
The promotional terms for the biopic of ‘British Schindler’ Nicholas Winton have been amended following criticism of the term ‘central European’ to describe the children he saved
Nicholas Winton saved my father from the Nazis – here’s how One Life betrays him
Matthew Reisz
The new film about the British humanitarian who rescued 669 Czech Jewish children sticks to a feelgood script, and misses the more compelling reality
December 2023
‘The worst meeting I have ever had’: why a Kindertransport hero rejected a film about his life
As One Life is released, producer says that Nicholas Winton – the ‘British Schindler’ who saved 669 children – was reluctant for his story to be told
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
One Life review – Anthony Hopkins in extraordinary true story of ‘British Schindler’Hopkins stars as Nicholas Winton, who rescued 669 Jewish children from the Nazis – alongside Helena Bonham Carter on mighty form
‘It will always be less hellish than the reality’: why cinema keeps returning to the Holocaust
Kindertransport success of ‘Britain’s Schindler’ celebrated in new film and exhibition
How Nicholas Winton saved 669 children (and counting) from the Holocaust: ‘He became everybody’s grandfather’
September 2023
First look review
One Life review – Anthony Hopkins moves in stirring second world war dramaThe two-time Oscar winner makes a convincing play for a third statuette in the powerful story of Nicholas Winton, who saved Jewish children before the war began
About 229 results for Anthony Hopkins