Brighton Rock coasts along on Andrea Riseborough’s star turn

David Cox: The remake departs from the Boultings' 1947 classic but Rowan Joffé has turned Greene's story into a towering study of female suffering

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, David Zane Mairowitz and Catherine Anyango

Conrad's epic Congo tale returns – in graphic and terrifying detail, says Rachel Cooke

The Girl Who Played With Fire: is the Millennium trilogy still burning bright?

Ben Child: Does the Swedish film adaptation of Stieg Larsson's source trilogy impress with its gritty realism, or does it scream TV movie?

Angelina Jolie and George Clooney ‘set for Marilyn Monroe film’

News: Angelina Jolie is reported to be taking the lead in a movie version of Andrew O'Hagan's novel seen through the eyes of Marilyn Monroe's terrier, while George Clooney will play Frank Sinatra

Eat, pray, cash in

First a publishing sensation, now a Hollywood film, Elizabeth Gilbert's spiritual journey has plenty of followers. But does enlightenment come at a price?

Julie Taymor’s The Tempest to close Venice film festival

Director's second Shakespeare reimagining will feature Ben Whishaw as Ariel and Helen Mirren as a female Prospero

Comic-Con 2010: Preview night

Ryan Gilbey: Fresh off the plane to San Diego, it's time to pick out the events which are sure to be the highlights of Comic-Con 2010

Kenneth Branagh in talks to star in Laurence Olivier-Marilyn Monroe film

Michelle Williams may also join film depicting the squabbles between the two greats during the making of a 1957 movie

Notre Damned: with adaptations, fidelity is a virtue

Marianne M Gilchrist: There's more to Notre Dame de Paris than Quasimodo, but the latest movie adaptation sounds unlikely to do the novel justice

David Cronenberg to direct Lethem’s As She Climbed Across the Table

News: Cronenberg returns to The Fly territory with strange tale of a man who loses his love to a shapeless void

Edinburgh book and film festivals to join forces

Architect Norman Foster and author Margaret Atwood to spearhead partial tie-up between festivals

When will Nicholas Sparks stop making girls cry?

With Dear John and The Last Song arriving at the cinema, Stuart Heritage wonders if the author will ever deviate from his lucrative formula

The welcome return of Lynne Ramsay

Adam Dawtrey: Eight years after Morvern Callar, Ramsay is finally back behind the camera this week. Her edgy, poetic vision has been missing from our big screens for too long