Jon S. Baird

Review: Stan & Ollie

Long gone are the days of the noughties rom-com and Jon S. Baird's charming biopic, Stan & Ollie, proves that the best way to warm our hearts is through the bromance comedy.

Stan & Ollie and The Favourite performing at box office

Steve Coogan, John C Reilly and happy audiences propel biopic to top of the rankings as The Favourite also comes up smiling after two weekends in cinemas

Stan & Ollie: story of Laurel and Hardy's final tour

The critically acclaimed film Stan & Ollie is released in UK cinemas on Friday. It documents the legendary comedy duo's final tour, which came to an abrupt end in the English city of Plymouth in May 1954.

Review: Stan & Ollie

This is an adorable film, sweetly melancholic, bathed in the golden (syrupy) light of a tender friendship. It will surely be a shoo-in for Christmas or Boxing Day TV for years to come.

Steve Coogan and John C Reilly are perfectly cast as Laurel & Hardy in Jon S Baird's late-years biopic Stan & Ollie, a gentle, melancholic look at the beloved duo long after they've fallen out of favour in Hollywood. Catching up with them as they're reduced to undertaking what seems like a humiliating British tour of regional music halls in 1953, the film explores the complexities of their partnership and the blurring of their on- and off-screen personas as an indifferent-at-first public start turning up in droves to see them. What's good about Baird's film is that it doesn't use their reignited popularity to deliver a bogus triumphalist message; it's more interested in pulling the curtain back on the ephemeral nature of stardom to reveal the fine mess talented performers can get themselves into as they try to negotiate its pitfalls.

Stan & Ollie proves Coogan's certainly no lightweight

A biopic of comedy duo Stan & Ollie has led to Oscar predictions for John C Reilly as Hardy, but Coogan shouldn't be overlooked.

Stan Laurel's rise to comedy legend started in Glasgow

The director of an upcoming Laurel and Hardy movie tells how Stan moved to Scotland as a boy and never looked back.

Stan and Ollie film is a 'love story' says director

The Scottish director of a new film about the world's most famous comedy double act, Laurel and Hardy, said when he first read the script he "actually cried".

Jon S Baird on bringing Stan & Ollie back to life

Telling the story of Laurel and Hardy's latter years was a labour of love and having Martin Scorsese's advice a dream come true, director Jon S Baird says.

Jon S Baird interview

Stan & Ollie director Jon S Baird reveals the agony and the ecstasy of returning Laurel and Hardy to cinemas.