Anna Karenina – review
Set in a fantasy theatre world, Tom Stoppard and Joe Wright's bold adaptation – starring Keira Knightley and Jude Law – sacrifices the novel's poignancy for creative flair, writes Peter Bradshaw
Bret Easton Ellis says James Deen may star in Fifty Shades of Grey
Ben Child: The author has tweeted that US porn actor Deen is in the running to play kinky business magnate Christian Grey in EL James's knee-trembler
Boxing Day – review
Bernard Rose updates Tolstoy's mysterious tale Master and Man and delivers a shrewd and intimate slow-burner, writes Peter Bradshaw
Domhnall Gleeson: ‘Having Levin in the mix is a really good move’
Domhnall Gleeson talks to Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy about his role as Levin, the young landowner who finds love with Kitty, in Anna Karenina
How Joe Wright’s vision of Anna Karenina was brought to life
Daunting challenges had to be met to get the costumes, sets and camera angles right
Why Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina transcends the ages
Five writers give their personal takes on the appeal that makes Anna Karenina a literary masterpiece
Keira Knightley: ‘I was trying to keep hold of a real, raw Anna Karenina’
Keira Knightley tells Jason Solomons that the key to playing Tolstoy's tragic heroine in Joe Wright's adaptation of Anna Karenina was endless research
Holy-wood: the film industry’s new passion for Christ
Karen Krizanovich: With Russell Crowe playing Noah, Paul Verhoeven bringing us Jesus and Warner Bros tackling Moses, the movies are well and truly back in the good book
Ang Lee’s Life of Pi to open New York film festival
Big-screen adaptation of Yann Martel's prize-winning novel will become the first 3D film to open the festival next month
Sean Penn in talks to direct Crazy for the Storm
Actor set to return to director's chair for first time in five years with adaptation of Norman Ollestad's survival memoir
Autumn movie preview: how this year’s Oscar contenders warn of America’s fall
From Killing Them Softly to Queen of Versailles, the autumn's big US films paint a harrowing portrait of a country gripped by class envy, loss and fear of ruin
Earth to Bret Easton Ellis: you needn’t be straight to play a lady-spanker
Patrick Strudwick: Plenty of gay actors have convinced the world otherwise, so why not let one play Fifty Shades of Grey's Christian Grey?
Jennifer Lawrence set for $10m pay deal for Hunger Games sequel
Oscar-nominated actor, who will reprise her role as Katniss Everdeen in Catching Fire, is reportedly in line for a pay rise
Warner Bros considers The Shining prequel
Studio has employed Shutter Island screenwriter to write script telling story of Overlook Hotel before Jack Torrance's arrival
Why don’t Dr Seuss’s books make good movies?
David Armand: Hollywood has a bad habit of making the simple, funny moral tales like The Lorax too complex. Film-makers should stop trying so hard