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Luke Holland

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Luke Holland is a culture writer for the Guardian. Bluesky: @lukeholland.bsky.social

October 2025

  • Anya Chalotra

    ‘I’ve tried to separate myself from this job’: The Witcher’s Anya Chalotra on fan abuse, Henry Cavill and saying goodbye to the show

    After seven years in Netflix’s fantasy epic, the actor has cast her final spell. She talks about the genre’s toxic fans, welcoming new boy Liam Hemsworth to the cast – and what sorcery really sounds like

September 2025

  • Cronos: The New Dawn

    Cronos: The New Dawn review – survival horror is dead on arrival

    An intriguing setup sees an unnamed protagonist time-travel to discover the origins of a devastating outbreak, but a stingy inventory and one-sided battles lead to frustration

April 2025

  • Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader  in Obi-Wan Kenobi.

    May the force be with you! How to save every tired TV superfranchise, from Star Wars to Game of Thrones

  • Arnie as Hamlet in Last Action Hero (1993).

    Pink smoke, pigs and Pixar: a dozen movie Easter eggs to feast on

January 2025

  • Culture 4 Jan Main

    The big chill: warming, nourishing culture to help you hibernate until spring

    Whether it’s wintry films and music, time-absorbing games or compelling telly and podcasts, with all this goodness to get stuck into there really is no reason to go outside

October 2024

  • Starfield: Shattered Space screenshot.

    Starfield: Shattered Space review – much Va’ruun for improvement

    Bethesda’s gigantic space RPG’s first major expansion only highlights the game’s fundamental limitations

September 2023

  • Terry Crews, Stephanie Beatriz and Andy Samberg in Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

    10 years of Brooklyn Nine-Nine: the most relentlessly funny show of the last decade

    It had one of TV’s all-time best casts, the highest laugh-rate of the millennium, and confronted inequality – while still being hilarious. A decade has zipped by since this landmark comedy’s first episode

October 2022

  • Sadoc Burrows (Lenny Henry) in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

    Now we’re Tolkien! After six glacial hours, The Rings of Power is finally worth watching

    It’s been a painstaking buildup – mainly of people chatting by pretty trees – but now, faithful fans who haven’t already given up have been rewarded with the best big-budget TV in years

June 2022

  • Our only hope (is less of him) … Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi.

    Less of Ewan McGregor please! The big problem with Obi-Wan Kenobi

    No stakes, no danger, nothing of substance: the show has atoned for many of the Star Wars prequels’ sins, but if it’s ever going to be exciting, the action needs to focus less on the ageing Jedi

March 2022

  • The telescope’s 2015 photograph of the Pillars of Creation

    Cultural prescription
    Astral peaks: music, books, art and more about the majesty of space

  • Composite image of stills from different Batman movies

    Kapow! Our writers pick their favorite Batman movie

November 2021

  • Masterchef: The Professionals , Strictly Come Dancing 2021, 'The X Factor: Celebrity'

    From Louis Walsh to Motsi Mabuse: our favourite TV judges

    The X Factor’s master of indecision, Strictly’s hilarious dancing queen, plus the least qualified foodie on TV and more. Our writers pick their top telly adjudicators

September 2021

  • GoldenEye 1997

    10 of the best ...
    From GoldenEye to South Park: 10 of the best video games based on films and TV shows

    Taking the greatest bits of their source material, these games allow players to enter the worlds they love via epic lightsaber battles and balletic flights of fancy

August 2021

  • God Damn

    This week's new tracks
    This week’s new tracks: God Damn, the Lost Trades, Adam Levine

  • Complex and twisty ... The Forgotten City.

    The Forgotten City review: sliding into your diems

July 2021

  • MILYMA

    This week's new tracks
    This week’s new tracks: MILYMA, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Mabel

    This week we’ve got a spiritual rollercoaster, some blissed-out 70s-style groove, and an enjoyably daft glitter-pop banger

May 2021

  • Kirsty MacColl and Shane MacGowan, and Celine Dion.

    Solved
    Repeat offenders: what is the most overplayed song?

    It has to be an omnipresent, year-round stinker. So which is it?

April 2021

  • Drive-in movies

    ‘Don’t get out of the car!’: how to survive drive-in cinemas this summer

  • Years & Years Credit Hugo Yangüela

    This week's new tracks
    This week’s new tracks: Years & Years, Pizzagirl, Rina Sawayama

March 2021

  • Disney Plus Disney+ logo TV streaming

    Solved
    The price is not right: are there too many streaming services?

    The sheer volume of TV platforms on offer, from Netflix to Now TV, means constant entertainment now comes with a whopping price tag
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