‘If my babysitter’s evil, I’m screwed!’: horror director Ti West on outraging the moral majority
Weekend
Actor Kevin Bacon on learning selflessness, the secret lives of porn addicts, and what’s it like to be a private tutor for the rich? – podcast
‘This sucks. I want to go back to being famous’: Kevin Bacon’s experiment as a ‘regular person’
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F review – fish-out-of-water Eddie Murphy chases past glories
June 2024
‘You have to get over the me thing’: Kevin Bacon on money, marriage – and learning to live with himself
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Original Observer Photography
January 2024
Stream team
Wild Things: this 90s erotic thriller is smarter than you may remember
Kevin Bacon, Denise Richards, Neve Campbell and Matt Dillon elevated this underrated neo-noir beyond bargain-bin titillation
October 2023
How we made
‘Kevin Bacon’s death delighted me the most’: how we made Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th review – original teen horror classic now looks bizarrely innocent
September 2022
The reader interview
Kevin Bacon: ‘I turned down dancing to Footloose dressed as an M&M. My wife doesn’t like it when food talks’
The actor answers your questions on filming in zero gravity, what happens if they play Footloose at a wedding he’s attending, and that scene in A Few Good Men
August 2022
One Way review – Machine Gun Kelly gets on board for coach-bound crime thriller
The reader interview
Post your questions for Kevin Bacon
May 2022
Fred Ward obituary
Actor who played ‘second lead’ to perfection and brought comic relief to the cult horror thriller Tremors
August 2021
Stream team
Stir of Echoes: Kevin Bacon attempts to unearth dark secrets in working-class Chicago
Disadvantage in dark suburbia casts a looming shadow over a man suddenly beset by terrifying visions in this 1999 thriller
December 2020
Pass notes
Swine of the times: why is Kevin Bacon looking for a new home?
Kevin Bacon is looking for a new home for a pig with the same name. What’s going on?
October 2020
Kevin Bacon: 'I couldn't care less about being heroic or handsome'
Having broken through off Broadway with Sean Penn and Val Kilmer, it’s no surprise that the actor has spent 35 years striving to put being a teen idol behind him. ‘I’m drawn to dark things,’ he says
June 2020
You Should Have Left review – Kevin Bacon v evil house in flat horror
An adaptation of Daniel Kehlmann’s eerie novella about an otherworldly house smooths out the cracks and loses much of its haunting power
November 2018
The Q&A
Kevin Bacon: ‘Who would play me in the film of my life? Harry Styles’
The actor on being the youngest of six by eight years and how he met his wife, Kyra Sedgwick
May 2017
Kevin Bacon: ‘I thought I'd be sent to the TV graveyard’
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I Love Dick review – Jill Soloway pushes boundaries even further than Transparent
