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?

Black Panther review – Marvel’s thrilling vision of the afrofuture

The latest big-screen superhero story is a subversive and uproarious action-adventure, in which African stereotypes are upended and history is rewritten

Peter Rabbit review: James Corden’s twerking bunny gets away with it – just

The new Beatrix Potter adaptation tries to follow in the footsteps of the blockbuster Paddington movies, and largely manages to pull it off

Sofia Coppola on making The Virgin Suicides: ‘When I saw the rough cut I thought: Oh no, what have I done?’

The director relives the creation of her debut film, from the family tragedy that drew her to the story of five sisters taking their lives – to its terrifying Cannes premiere

Wildlife review – Carey Mulligan plays flirtatious under big skies in Paul Dano’s directorial debut

Mulligan is an unhappy wife and mother looking to break free in this adaptation of Richard Ford’s Montana-set novel

Juliet, Naked review – superb Rose Byrne can’t stop Hornby tale falling flat

Byrne is tremendous as the bored woman who connects with Ethan Hawke’s forgotten indie rocker, but is marooned in a poorly conceived film

Future shock: unearthing the most cutting-edge sci-fi movies of 2018

With films from Steven Spielberg, Duncan Jones and Alex Garland in the pipeline, there’s plenty to get excited about beyond the superhero franchises

Peter O’Toole was not the drunken hell-raiser he made out, says author

Actor’s biographer says personal archive reveals a ‘sensitive, organised man’ who was writing two screenplays just before his death in 2013

Marvel, DC, whatever … why all superhero movies look the same these days

Pow! DC’s Batman packs a comic punch in the new Justice League trailer – but isn’t humour Marvel’s shtick? Should movie fans look to films from other studios – such as new Wolverine and Spider-Man spin-offs – for fresh heroic twists?

Paddington 2 review – Hugh Grant steals the show in sweet-natured and funny sequel

Grant is on top form as a cravat-wearing villain who frames Paddington for theft in a follow-up that lives up to Michael Bond’s evergreen original

The Princess Bride review – golden-age throwback glows brighter than ever

Rob Reiner’s salute to Hollywood’s old swashbuckling adventures is a poignant pastiche gloriously unencumbered by CGI visuals and gender cliches

Lost in La Mancha’s Jean Rochefort, veteran French actor, dies at 87

Rochefort, who scored a major international success in The Hairdresser’s Husband, was also cast as Don Quixote in Terry Gilliam’s ill-fated Cervantes adaptation

The Room: the fall and rise of the men behind the ‘Citizen Kane of bad movies’

Derided as the worst film ever made, The Room has become a cult classic with a James Franco film about it on the way. Now its creators Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero are back with a surreal thriller. It can’t be as bad, can it?

Natalie Portman in first trailer of Alex Garland’s sci-fi thriller Annihilation

Portman plays a biologist looking for answers to her husband’s strange condition in the hotly anticipated new film from the Ex Machina director