Scene Stealers

Peter Farrelly's Green Book may be a politically regressive movie directed by a onetime sex pest, but at least it also wastes three very talented actors. Viggo Mortensen has been a household name since his...

It’s fair to say that Jack Black is a bit of a ‘marmite’ actor. You’ll either love his unique brand of brashness and lack of subtlety, or it’ll have you avoiding a film at all costs. This persona has...

If you've only got to know Ann Dowd through her recent roles in Hereditary and TV's The Handmaid's Tale (like a certain writer, ahem), you'd be forgiven for wanting to steer well clear of her if you ever met...

Love, Actually is one of those movies that, come December, you either embrace wholeheartedly, or avoid like the Bubonic plague. Aside from Andrew Lincoln's wooing of Keira Knightley via Bob-Dylan style cue...

Why do we never talk about how great the villains in Pixar movies are? From Sid in Toy Story to Randall in Monsters, Inc., the cold and analytical autopilot in WALL-E to Antoine Ego in Ratatouille, Pixar's...

Samuel L. Jackson? A scene stealer in Deep Blue Sea? But wasn't he the star of that movie? Well, yes and no. Just go with this. 1999's cult favourite, about a group of genetically engineered sharks going on...

Though the majority of our Scene Stealers inductees are made up of scenery-chewing tour-de-forces and unexpectedly bizarre cameos, our latest entry stands as perhaps one of the series' most understated...

In recent months, we’ve been absolutely spoiled when it comes to great parents onscreen. Laurie Metcalf got a deserved Oscar nom for Lady Bird, Michael Stuhlbarg should have got the same for Call Me By Your...

It seems like every other day we get an announcement of another actor that Quentin Tarantino has convinced to join his upcoming Manson-era epic, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The last time Tarantino assembled...

Jeff Goldblum has been stealing scenes on silver screens for a long time now, and so it should come as no surprise that he was at it again in 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok as the eccentric Grandmaster. Sporting...

It’s a phrase bandied about quite a lot in the entertainment world, but Donald Glover is quite genuinely a man of many talents. When he’s not preparing to join a galaxy far, far away as a young Lando...

The first thing to come to mind when someone mentions Pacific Rim – and now its sequel, out this Friday – is bombastic cartoon violence between kaiju monsters and giant mecha, writ large in 3D-IMAX glory....

Andrea Riseborough is having a bit of a moment. Of course she’s not exactly a newcomer to success or critical acclaim. Still, the almost simultaneous releases of The Death of Stalin and Battle of the Sexes...

Yesterday marked Martin Scorsese’s 75th birthday, and to mark the great man reaching three-quarters of a century, what better way to celebrate his enduring contribution to cinema than by recalling one of the...

Who dares to face down Malcolm Tucker? By 2009, Peter Capaldi’s tartan terror had been blazing through the halls of Westminster for four years – obliterating all who unknowingly stumbled into his path. His...