Alicia Vikander on pregnancy: ‘Half the women in the audience will be thinking: she doesn’t know what it’s like’

The Oscar-winner spoke at the premiere of The Light Between Oceans about co-star Michael Fassbender, and the challenges of playing a pregnant woman and having a family

Emma Thompson set for adaptation of Ian McEwan’s The Children Act

Actor in talks for lead role in Richard Eyre-directed film about high court judge dealing with a life-or-death legal case

The bigger they come: how to film an ‘unfilmable’ book

Can Philip Roth’s epic novel American Pastoral work as a film? Screenwriter Hossein Amini, who has taken on two ‘impossible novels’, reveals the secret to cracking the classics

Gene Wilder – five key performances

From The Producers to Stir Crazy, via Willy Wonka and Blazing Saddles, we pick out the key roles by Gene Wilder, who died on Monday aged 83

Cell review – Stephen King zombie satire lacks a pulse

John Cusack and Samuel L Jackson are phoning it in as survivors of a crisis that turns mobile users into mindless grunts

Why it wasn’t all plain sailing for Swallows and Amazons’ author

Arthur Ransome continues a long tradition of journalists turned bestselling novelists – but the background to his success is more complex than it first appears

Greta Gerwig rewriting Little Women adaptation

The Frances Ha star and screenwriter is taking over the Louisa May Alcott remake from Sarah Polley

Practically perfect: Meryl Streep to play Mary Poppins’ cousin in Disney sequel

Reuniting with Emily Blunt, the actor will play Topsy Tartlet, a supporting role who didn’t feature in the 1964 Julie Andrews version of PL Travers’s book

Venice 2016: Terrence Malick and Tom Ford set for red carpet in bumper year

Premieres of new films from Ford, Malick and Mel Gibson join highly-anticipated Michael Fassbender/Alicia Vikander romance and Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy on the Lido

Swallows and Amazons review – sails on merrily, despite spy ballast

Children messing about in boats is not enough for this adaptation, which injects an adult espionage twist more Famous Five than Arthur Ransome

Feed me a line: Idris Elba joins Ridley Scott in hunt for UK scriptwriters

Competitions aim to help new writers get a break in fiercely competitive world of film and television

Kirsten Dunst to direct The Bell Jar starring Dakota Fanning

The Melancholia actor is to make her directorial debut with a version of Sylvia Plath’s 1963 novel

Roman Polanski and Olivier Assayas join forces on new film

The two plan respectively to direct and script an adaptation of French writer Delphine de Vigan’s novel about a writer and an obsessive fan

Are comic book movies actually fascist?

Die Hard director John McTiernan claims superhero films are ‘made by fascists’, pointing to Captain America as exhibit A. But the truth is a lot less definitive

Cinema paradiso: Bologna’s magical Il Cinema Ritrovato

From the beautiful Coeur Fidèle to a perfectly restored 1899 film projector, the city’s festival of rediscovered gems induced strained necks and gasps of delight