Albert Finney, legendary star of Tom Jones and Miller’s Crossing, dies aged 82

Celebrated actor who rose to fame in the ‘kitchen sink’ era before evolving into one of the screen greats of the postwar period, has died

Mortal Engines review – Peter Jackson’s steampunk Star Wars stalls

Jackson has turned Philip Reeve’s dystopian adventure novel into a tiringly frenetic and derivative fantasy-adventure movie

Green Book back in Oscars race after winning National Board of Review award

Best film prize goes to drama starring Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen, in US awards with form in picking Oscar contenders

Nicolas Roeg: a daring film-maker of passionate and visceral brilliance

Roeg will be remembered for a clutch of masterly films – including Don’t Look Now, the best scary movie of all time, and the unclassifiable Man Who Fell to Earth

Filming a Great Gatsby origin story shows our culture is eating itself

New series Gatz isn’t repeating the past but missing the point of the book, says film writer Caspar Salmon

From Fellini to Ferrante: the cinematic vision of My Brilliant Friend

The television adaptation Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend is a reminder of Italy’s strong tradition in the coming-of-age genre, from Life Is Beautiful to Cinema Paradiso

Lily James and Armie Hammer to star in Rebecca movie remake

A new adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier novel will be directed by High Rise’s Ben Wheatley

Adrift in Soho review – tedious times in London’s louchest locale

Adapted from angry young man Colin Wilson’s novel, this painfully self-conscious drama of drunks and dreamers never comes alive

Why Hollywood’s new The Time Machine is doomed

Whether he sticks to author HG Wells’ outdated ideas or modernises sacrificing the 1895 book’s bite, director Andy Muschietti’s next film is history

The Grinch review – an unwanted Christmas gift

Benedict Cumberbatch voices the festive grump in this frenetic, family-friendly animation of the Dr Seuss story

Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret to be adapted for film

After half a century of batting off Hollywood offers, beloved US children’s author agrees to movie version of her best-known novel

Massacre at the movies: why must cinema torture the young?

From Utoya to The Hate U Give, a new wave of films offer an unflinching vision of violence against children. What does the bloodletting tell us about how we live now?

Crazy Rich Asians is no racial triumph. It’s a soulless salute to the 1%

With its plummy accents, couture gowns and clumsy merging of cultures, this ‘tale of empowerment’ is just Sex and the City in Singapore

The Hate U Give review – Amandla Stenberg shines in tough teen movie with radical bent

Stenberg lives up to her promise in a hard-hitting adaptation of Angie Thomas’ bestselling YA novel about a police shooting and racial strife

Out of Blue review – Carol Morley conjures a cosmically uncanny noir

Patricia Clarkson is drawn into a black hole of murder, murk and existential angst in this adaptation of Martin Amis’s Night Train