James Corden’s Peter Rabbit: another kids’ classic wrecked forever

A new trailer reveals Beatrix Potter’s gentle rabbit has been turned into a house-trashing, cocky jerk. It looks like he’s gone the way of Postman Pat and Thunderbirds

Can Benedict Cumberbatch make Ian McEwan work on TV?

The Child in Time, starring Cumberbatch, kicks off a trio of adaptations that may make the author the most screen-friendly novelist of his generation

The Wife review – Glenn Close is unreadably brilliant as author’s spouse plunged in late-life crisis

As the apparently-perfect wife of a Nobel prize-winning writer, Close gives arguably her best ever performance in an adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s novel

Will the success of Stephen King’s It result in a Hollywood Kingaissance?

The stunning box-office returns for It mean that studios will be desperate for more King adaptations. They mustn’t waste the opportunity

What’s great about The Limehouse Golem? Glorious Victorian London grime

Smoke-blackened brick, the soot, the fog … Starring Bill Nighy, the film adaptation of Peter Ackroyd’s novel is a reminder that London is a Victorian city and its pea soupers and shadowy figures are made for cinema

Stephen King horror It: Pennywise, the Losers and Stranger Things – discuss with spoilers

How does the new film compare with the 1990 TV miniseries? What is it about kids being terrorised by a clown that is so scary? And where was the giant spider?

On Chesil Beach review – sensitive translation of Ian McEwan’s elegy to inhibited England

Billy Howle and Saoirse Ronan are on song as the young couple in Britain’s duffel-coated early 1960s, in a restrained adaptation of McEwan’s novella

It review – a feast of scary Stephen King, plus the haunted kitchen sink

A satanic leering clown who wants to trap kids in a sewer is terrifying, but this lively adaptation wants to squeeze in all the horror effects we’ve already seen

Tom Cruise still flying high at UK box office with American Made

Doug Liman’s CIA thriller took less than £1m at the weekend yet still ended up on top, while indie God’s Own Country charmed British cinemagoers

The Limehouse Golem review – lurid but literate Victorian serial-killer melodrama

Bill Nighy plays the detective in this racy, feminist look at pre-Ripper London, cleverly adapted from Peter Ackroyd’s novel by Jane Goldman

Why JK Rowling’s crime TV series strikes the right note

With Strike, JK Rowling joins Austen as one of the few British authors to have had all their novels adapted for the screen – and her use of a pseudonym only adds to her achievement

‘It’s not romantic at all’ – Merchant Ivory’s Howards End 25 years on

Not just bluebells and bookcases, EM Forster’s novel still has much to teach austerity Britain

Howards End review – sumptuous heritage cinema with real passion

Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter and Anthony Hopkins star in the rereleased Merchant-Ivory wealth tragedy based on EM Forster’s novel

Ready Player One: first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s virtual reality game thriller

The BFG director debuted the footage from his new film at a Comic Con event, showcasing elaborate VR and special effects

The Snowman: serious film by serious people – or least spooky serial killer thriller ever?

The trailer suggests Michael Fassbender’s Jo Nesbø adaptation is a high-tension, dread-laden thriller with one problem: it’s full of snowmen