We Need to Talk About Kevin scoops top prize at London film festival
Lynne Ramsay's drama starring Tilda Swinton fights off opposition from a strong shortlist to win best film at ceremony
Lionel Shriver: The dangers of film adaptations
Lionel Shriver: Awful film adaptations follow authors for the rest of their lives but Lynne Ramsay's version of my book We Need To Talk About Kevin is terrific
Wuthering Heights realises Brontë’s vision with its dark-skinned Heathcliff
Tola Onanuga: At last, Andrea Arnold has bucked the trend of casting white actors in the role of Emily Brontë's 'gypsy' foundling hero
We Need to Talk About Kevin review – a brilliantly extreme parable of parenting and pain
Lionel Shriver's award-winning novel has become a superb film, with director Lynne Ramsay putting her finger on unpalatable truths
Bringing along Baby: Tinker Tailor Babble and Wail on the big screen
In the first of a new occasional series, Esther Walker and her daughter Kitty offer a view from parent-and-baby cinema screenings – this time at Hampstead's Everyman
La Reine Margot: sober dispatch or shameless massacre?
Alex von Tunzelmann: This Dumas adaptation drags French history kicking and screaming into the town square
Steve Jobs the movie: Sony buys rights
Makers of The Social Network plan big-screen biopic of Jobs's life, after buying rights to Walter Isaacson's authorised biography
Stieg Larsson, the author who could not get on a journalism course
Letter of rejection for campaigning reporter who went on to write Millennium trilogy likely to fetch £8,000 to £12,000 at auction
New Paradise Lost film needs more art house and less Hangover
Ben Child: Alex Proyas's adaptation of Milton's epic poem will no doubt make for a fun CGI blockbuster, but casting Bradley Cooper as Satan would make the poet turn in his grave
Niall Griffiths meets Kelly and Victor, the people he created
Niall Griffiths: I'd long since grown bored with the characters in my third novel, Kelly+Victor – until a film set brought them clamouring back for my attention
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo looks promising – but why so many Brits?
Ben Child: David Fincher's remake of Stieg Larsson's bestseller is shot in Sweden but, oddly, appears to have a distinctly British flavour
Harlan Ellison sues to stop release of Justin Timberlake movie
Science fiction author claims In Time borrows from his 1965 short story, and is seeking an injunction to prevent its release
Stephen Mangan bags title role in Postman Pat movie
Rupert Grint, David Tennant and Jim Broadbent also set to deliver first-class performances in big-screen 3D animation
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy review – brilliant study of the 1970s spy game
The new adaptation of John le Carré's novel is a uncompromisingly cerebral and austere account of disenchantment and tension
Albert Nobbs – review
Glenn Close serves up a terrific performance as a gender-bending butler in Rodrigo García's intriguing ensemble piece, writes Catherine Shoard