Alan Rickman: 10 key performances
From the Sheriff of Nottingham to Severus Snape, Alan Rickman played some of the most memorable roles cinema had to offer. Here are 10 of the best
George Clayton Johnson obituary
Writer whose success was guaranteed after the novel Logan’s Run was turned into a Hollywood film
A War and Peace for our time
Andrew Davies’s new TV adaptation of War and Peace may be racy and pacy, but how does it compare to the Hollywood and Soviet movie versions, or the epic 1970s BBC series?
The superfan strikes back. Star Wars shows us where the creative force lies
George Lucas let go of his Star Wars baby and it’s back bigger and better than ever, with The Force Awakens. Shrewd minds stay open to outside ideas
The 50 best films of 2015 in the US – No 3: The Revenant
Continuing our countdown of the best movies released in the US this year, we go on the march with Leonardo DiCaprio and Alejandro González Iñárritu for this epic frontier revenge western
Sam Taylor-Johnson to make Ted Kennedy thriller Chappaquiddick
The Fifty Shades director is working on a thriller about Ted Kennedy’s notorious driving incident, which left a young woman dead and derailed his political career
Berlin film festival adds Midnight Special and Genius to lineup
Drama starring Michael Shannon drama as a dad on the run from extremists joins biopic of legendary editor Max Perkins, played by Colin Firth
X-Men: Apocalypse – five things we learned from the first full trailer
Among other things, Oscar Isaac’s omnipotent big daddy mutant is a sizeable foe; Sophie Turner’s Jean Grey is front and centre; and James McAvoy’s Professor X finally has a canonical haircut
Sarah Polley takes on David Gilbert’s novel & Sons
The Canadian writer-director is adapting Gilbert’s acclaimed 2012 book about a reclusive novelist and his three sons for Brett Ratner’s film company
Derek Malcolm reviews Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, 1975
To mark 40 years since the first screening of Kubrick’s period drama film, we republish the Guardian’s original review
Golden Globes 2016: Carol, Mad Max and Trainwreck shine in nominations
Expected nominations for The Revenant, Spotlight and Room offset by outside bets such as Mad Max: Fury Road, a surprise inclusion in best picture
Victor Frankenstein dead on arrival at UK box office
Daniel Radcliffe can’t bring life to the horror reboot as it takes a mere £375,000 at cinemas, while festive offering Christmas With the Coopers comes in at fifth place
Tokyo Story’s Setsuko Hara dies at 95
Muse of Yasujuro Ozu who rose to fame in the 1930s and 40s was a key face of Japan’s postwar cinematic revival
Kenneth Branagh on track to play Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express
Actor will also direct adaptation of 1934 Agatha Christie mystery about a killing on board a long-distance passenger train
Studio apartment: Room’s tiny, innovative film set goes on display
Claustrophobic self-contained set of the Oscars contender, about a kidnapped mother and child raised in confinement, has been reassembled in an LA cinema