Jane Lapotaire obituary
Stage and screen actor hailed for her work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and for her TV role as Marie Curie
Billie Eilish set for big screen acting debut in Sarah Polley’s adaptation of The Bell Jar
Grammy-winning singer is in advanced talks to lead an adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s novel for Oscar-winning writer-director
A Pale View of Hills review – two-stranded adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro novel in the shadow of the A-bomb
Kei Ishikawa’s take on Ishiguro’s first published work is frustrating and bland, undermining its fascinating characters’ emotional truths
Project Hail Mary review – Ryan Gosling’s charm carries unserious last-ditch space mission
Tale of a brilliant molecular biologist cast into outer space with only a helpful alien for company is a bit silly, but Gosling’s charisma keeps it watchable
Sex with Scorsese, beef with Sondheim … and inventing the moonwalk? The wildest moments in Liza Minnelli’s memoir
From Peter Sellers dressing like a Nazi, to having to manage her mother Judy Garland’s addiction, jaws will drop at Minnelli’s anecdotes
Scarlet review – Mamoru Hosoda turns Hamlet into tale of prowling knights and deep ‘nothingness’
The normally great director misses the mark with a wonderfully animated but narratively clunky retelling of the Shakespearean staple
Why Train Dreams should win the best picture Oscar
With its meditative pace and sincere interest in moral questions, Clint Bentley’s film of a rudderless man cutting down trees in Idaho’s verdant vistas has the air of a Hollywood classic from another era
Which are more like life, novels or films?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
The Game of Thrones movie is coming – but how are they going to make audiences root for the baddies?
The early intel from George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels paints the Targaryens as tyrants – so making them the heroes is going to require some hefty literary PR
From luxury ‘dupes’ to literary doubles: why doppelgangers are everywhere right now
AI ‘twins’, Mar-a-Lago lookalikes, Melania impersonator conspiracies … doubles proliferate in today’s culture – and nowhere more so than in a series of unsettling new novels that draw on a rich gothic tradition to tap into our paranoid times
The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley is electrifying as frizzy-haired, black-tongued monster’s wife
The actor has a blast as bride to Christian Bale’s lonely creature in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s darkly comic and gleefully bizarre reimagining of the 1935 film
Flagship Harry Potter store to open on London’s Oxford Street
British outlet for the Hogwarts-adjacent ‘interactive retail experience’ will include ‘photo moments’ and exclusive merchandise
Game of Thrones film adaptation in the works at Warner Bros
Blockbuster adaptation of George RR Martin’s fantasy world will focus on events 300 years before the HBO series’ pilot
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A Lonely Dragon Wants to Be Loved review – sword, sorcery and smartphones
Those not up to speed on the Miss Kobayashi manga may struggle with the full nuance of this dimension hopping anime, but the visuals are stunningly to look at
The Last Kings of Hollywood by Paul Fischer review – the rise and reign of Spielberg, Lucas and Coppola
An epic account of how three demigod directors, in pursuit of indie freedom, redefined American film-making