Bard behind bars
Johnny McDevitt investigates Mickey B, a new adaptation of Macbeth made in a maximum security prison
The Spirit
Frank Miller's adaptation of the antique comic strip by Will Eisner is brash, noisy and so alarmingly ill-paced that it should with a software package that allows viewers to recut it as they see fit
The Reader
Kate Winslet is good as a former Auschwitz guard, but she can't save Stephen Daldry's shallow adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's novel. By Peter Bradshaw
You review: Twilight
Was Catherine Hardwicke's adaptation of Stephenie Meyers' teen vampire romance bloody wonderful, or about as meaty as a nut cutlet, asks Ben Child
Luhrmann picks up film rights to The Great Gatsby
Baz Luhrmann's planned film of the F Scott Fitzgerald book will be the fourth big-screen adaptation, the most famous one being the version by Jack Clayton in 1974 with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow
‘I did have moments where I’d say, Oh my God …’
Kate Winslet is back with two films - one directed by her husband, Sam Mendes - and she's a hot prospect for the Oscars. Kira Cochrane meets an actor at the top of her game
Ready for my close-up
When Danny Wallace's book Yes Man was picked up by Hollywood, he was ushered into a strange new world. He reveals what it's like to pal around with Jim Carrey, and be the only man on set drinking pints
From real war to sci-fi war: Ari Folman’s next feature
Ari Folman's follow-up to Waltz With Bashir will be an adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's sci-fi novel The Futurological Congress
A nine-year-old pick-up artist?
Mary Richert: Alec Greven's book on how to talk to girls contains some good advice, but the boy still has much to learn about women
New ways of seeing
José Saramago: 'I don't make excuses for what communist regimes have done. But I have the right to keep my ideas'
After 007, it’s zombies for director Forster
Marc Forster has signed up to direct an adaptation of World War Z, a bestselling novel about flesh-eating zombies who destroy the word
You review: Easy Virtue
Was Stephan Elliott's adaptation of Noel Coward's play a smooth viewing experience, or did you find the whole thing pretty hard going?
Kidman to star in biopic of transsexual artist
Nicole Kidman will play artist Einar Wegener, who became the world's first post-op transsexual in the 1930s, in an adaptation of David Ebershoff's bestselling book The Danish Girl
Twilight spawns a new film demographic
Lisa Marks: This adaptation of the popular book for young female adults is set to be the year's breakout smash by tapping in to a whole new audience
Black on board for Gulliver’s Travels
School of Rock star Jack Black is to play Lemuel Gulliver in a new live-action adaptation of Swift's classic satire