Sophia Loren returns to movies aged 86

Italian superstar plays a Holocaust survivor who befriends an orphan in Netflix film The Life Ahead, directed by her son Edoardo Ponti

After We Collided: does this shock hit point the way to cinema’s future?

Ignored by critics, barely marketed and released in just 47 cinemas, the YA romance has eclipsed X-Men at the UK box office and even ran Tenet close. What’s its secret?

When art films attack: why The Painted Bird’s try-hard horrors fail to land

From Haneke to Von Trier, the arthouse provocateur has a long, grim history. But there’s a thin line between trauma and tedium

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune could be the version we’ve all been waiting for

The first full trailer reveals that Villeneuve conjured a dark and doom-laden reading of Herbert’s masterwork that will draw awestruck gasps

Call me by my dead wife’s name: can Netflix persuade us we need another Rebecca?

You read the book, you know the drill. Will Armie Hammer and Lily James offer any surprises? You already know the answer

One Night in Miami review – a pivotal moment for black America

Regina King’s movie puts Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke in a hotel room together in 1964. The result is immensely watchable

Regina King makes history at Venice film festival with One Night in Miami

King’s directorial debut is the first film directed by an African-American woman to be selected in the festival’s history

The New Mutants review – troubled kids add hit of horror to X-Men saga

The superhero franchise is refreshed with a thoughtful study of childhood trauma before noisy CGI battles come to the fore

The Lost Husband review – farm romance is all cheese, no flavour

A grieving widow escapes to a rural idyll of horses and hunky farmhands in a rustic heartwarmer that leaves you cold

‘No aspect of writing makes you rich’ – why do authors get a pittance for film rights?

Joanne Harris has revealed that she was paid only £5,000 for the film rights to Chocolat. So why do some authors get the big bucks and some have to settle for the crumbs?

Pinocchio review – Matteo Garrone crafts a satisfyingly bizarre remake

Drawing on the original children’s story for his new live-action version, the Gomorrah director combines sentimentality and the grotesque in a unique way

Alan Parker: a maker of glorious films with a gift for connecting with audiences

From Bugsy Malone to Mississippi Burning, Shoot the Moon to Angel Heart, Parker was a craftsman committed to entertaining cinemagoers

Toronto film festival announces line-up with Mark Wahlberg drama premiering

Halle Berry’s directorial debut also on programme but whether physical screenings will take place remains up in the air

Greyhound review – Tom Hanks goes to war on the high seas

Hanks plays a ship’s captain under attack from a wolf pack of Nazi U-boats in a tense and poignant second world war drama

The Old Guard review – Netflix immortality thriller won’t live long in the memory

Not even Charlize Theron can save an action movie crying out for a comic touch to match the silliness of its premise