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A Million Ways to Die in the West

July 2015

  • Getting a bad raptor … Jurassic World

    Film blog
    Don't look away now: the crucial movie moments you can't afford to miss

    A phone call meant I wasn’t present for Jurassic World’s important foreshadowed GM-shark. So what other pivotal scenes in potential masterpieces have trips to the loo led me to overlook?

December 2014

  • 140x84 trailpic for The Guardian Film Show: 2014 review

    The Guardian film show
    The Guardian Film Show: 2014 in review

  • Ellar Coltrane in Boyhood

    The Guardian Film Show
    The Guardian Film Show: 2014's hidden gems and total turkeys - audio

June 2014

  • Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum in 22 Jump Street

    Film blog
    22 Jump Street triples original's first weekend take at UK box office

    Charles Gant: The Channing Tatum/Jonah Hill action-comedy goes more than one better, while Angelina Jolie's wicked turn in Maleficent sustains the Disney fairy tale's magic

  • Angelina Jolie in Maleficent

    Box office analysis: UK
    Maleficent scores early at UK box office as England expects …

    Charles Gant: Before World Cup fever sets in, Angelina Jolie's fairytale film makes a wicked start in UK cinemas, while the X-Men and Tom Cruise prove they are not past their prime

  • Angelina Jolie in Maleficent

    Box office analysis: US
    Angelina Jolie's Maleficent return makes X-Men history

    Jeremy Kay: Jolie's digitally enhanced cheekbones – and Imax ticket sales – gave Disney the edge over Fox's superheroes at US box office

May 2014

  • A Million Ways to Die in the West, film

    A Million Ways to Die in the West review – a bloated Blazing Saddles

    Seth MacFarlane's comic timing is awry in this lame spoof western, writes Jonathan Romney

  • Charlize Theron

    Charlize Theron likens press intrusion to rape

    Oscar-winning actor makes remarks when asked while promoting new film in UK whether she Googled herself
    • The Guardian film show
      The Guardian Film Show: The Edge of Tomorrow, Maleficent, Heaven is for Real and A Million Ways to Die in the West - video reviews

    • A Million Ways to Die in the West review – more City Slickers than Blazing Saddles

    • Seth MacFarlane records Christmas album with Norah Jones

March 2014

  • Seth MacFarlane

    A Million Ways to Die in the West, review – Seth MacFarlane's first novel

    The highest-paid TV writer in history has written a weird western that had Harry Ritchie ploughing through brothel scenes with the glum doggedness he usually reserves for tax returns

January 2014

  • A Million Ways to Die

    Film blog
    A Million Ways to Die in the West: first trailer hits web

  • Seth MacFarlane

    Seth MacFarlane writes first novel based on A Million Ways to Die in the West

March 2013

  • Sarah Silverman

    Sarah Silverman joins Seth MacFarlane western

    Sarah Crawford: Silverman will play a prostitute in A Million Ways to Die in the West, a film that already promises controversy

January 2013

  • Charlize Theron and Seth MacFarlane

    Charlize Theron to saddle up for new Seth MacFarlane western

    Actor eyes starring role in Blazing Saddles homage A Million Ways to Die in the West, which MacFarlane will act in and direct