The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society review – an outbreak of world war twee
Populated by Downtown Abbey graduates, this glutinous postwar rom-dram is a load of cobblers
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, the radical brothers who electrified Italian cinema
From Palme d’Or-winner Padre Padrone to adaptations of Tolstoy and Pirandello, the Tavianis challenged convention and upended cliche
Miloš Forman: the director who brought the spirit of anti-Soviet rebellion to Hollywood
The Czech film-maker forged a brilliant career after overcoming the obstacles of both postwar communism in his homeland and Hollywood to where he escaped
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest director Miloš Forman dies aged 86
Film-maker became key figure of the Czech new wave before emigrating to the US and establishing a successful career in Hollywood
From a fortune cookie to a Pulitzer: the story behind William Kennedy’s Ironweed
Ironweed’s hero navigates the Great Depression in a drunken haze, but his journey is lit by glowing writing about love, friendship and redemption
Top 10 books about horses – Jane Smiley picks her favourites
Childhood classics, colourful racers and memoirs of horse whisperers … the novelist and horse lover gallops through the best riding reads
Ready Player One: Ernest Cline on how his gamer fantasy became a Spielberg film
The author and screenwriter talks about his real-life geek-to-riches story – and what it was really like working with Steven Spielberg
Neil Gaiman on Coraline the terrifying opera: ‘Being brave means being scared’
The writer’s gripping tale of a young girl trapped in a button-eyed world has been turned into a macabre opera. Did they tone down the horror? Our writer meets composer Mark-Anthony Turnage as she goes backstage
Peter Rabbit review – in a hole with James Corden’s unfunny bunny
This attempt to turn Beatrix Potter’s creation into a sassy, low-grade British Bugs – voiced by Corden – is cynical and tiresome
From kickass heroine to soppy student snowflake: the many lives of Lara Croft
Hot pants in the tundra? As Tomb Raider hits cinemas, Lara Croft’s writers and developers explain her evolution from pneumatic bait for teenage boys to global sensation – and reveal why motherhood may be next
James Ivory is oldest Oscar winner ever with screenplay award for Call Me by Your Name
The 89-year-old Room with a View director won his first Oscar for his adaptation of the impassioned gay romance novel
Who put the spark in Frankenstein’s monster?
On the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s gothic horror, a new edition discusses its roots in experiments with electricity on the dead
Profile review – Skyping-with-Isis thriller dials up the suspense
Timur Bekmambetov’s film about a journalist investigating women online being lured to Syria is silly but effective
Dev Patel to star in Armando Iannucci’s ‘modern take’ on David Copperfield
The Slumdog Millionaire actor will play the title role in The Personal History of David Copperfield, from ‘Dickens aficionado’ Iannucci
Kit de Waal: ‘Make room for working class writers’
When Kit de Waal was growing up in 1970s Birmingham, no one like her – poor, black and Irish – wrote books. Forty years on, the author asks, what has changed?