‘As a film lover, I want more’: the Black female directors taking centre stage
The curator of the BFI’s Black Debutantes season on piracy, truncated careers and the frustrations of dealing with big studios
Francis Ford Coppola unveils Megalopolis graphic novel
In a statement, the 86-year-old director of the critical and box-office flop said the book confirms his feeling that ‘art can never be constrained’
Pedro Pascal calls JK Rowling a ‘heinous loser’ in wake of supreme court gender ruling
The actor has long been an activist for LGBTQ+ rights and has a transgender sister who often accompanies him on the red carpet
Heartstopper to end with feature film finale
Alice Oseman’s hit series starring Kit Connor and Joe Locke will end with a story based on the as-yet-unpublished sixth book, with the pair facing a long-distance relationship
The Ugly Stepsister review – body-horror take on Cinderella is ingenious reworking of fairy tale
Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt upends audience expectations in a feature debut that’s hyper-aware of the origin story’s sexual and patriarchal imagery
Baby boomers: if Sue Storm is pregnant then what’s going to happen in the Fantastic Four’s first outing?
That Vanessa Kirby’s character might be having a baby raises mind-bending questions about the trajectory of Matt Shakman’s instalment of the new Marvel franchise
Adventurer, horse photographer, killer: Eadweard Muybridge’s extraordinary life told in a comic book
He is famed for being a pioneer of the moving image – but there was so much more to Muybridge than that. The great graphic novelist Guy Delisle explains why he turned his life into a rollicking read
Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story review – richly bittersweet portrait of an Irish literary great
The dizzy highs and bitter lows of the late writer’s life are laid bare in Sinéad O’Shea’s moving documentary
JK Rowling’s journey from Harry Potter creator to gender-critical campaigner
Doyenne of children’s literature has regularly utilised social media in support of women-only spaces
The Penguin Lessons review – Steve Coogan seabird comedy drama tries to sell feelgood mood
Coogan does his best, but there’s a tonal mismatch here: the animal-teaches-lonely-human narrative jars with a depiction of lives in totalitarian Argentina
The Rock to co-author true crime book about Hawaii mob boss to be adapted by Martin Scorsese
Dwayne Johnson is working with investigative journalist Nick Bilton on the project, with a film in the pipeline starring Emily Blunt and Leonardo DiCaprio
‘I’d love Keanu to read it’: Ione Skye on bisexuality, infidelity and her wild tell-all memoir
The actor’s aptly named memoir Say Everything has been praised as raw, revealing, disarming and horny
Ted Kotcheff, director of First Blood, Weekend at Bernie’s and Wake in Fright, dies aged 94
Prolific Canadian director also made one of the country’s first internationally successful films, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, starring Richard Dreyfuss
Epic win: why the Odyssey is having a moment
With new translations, a film starring Ralph Fiennes and a Christopher Nolan blockbuster on the way, Homer’s saga about a soldier’s return from battle speaks to our times in unexpected ways
‘You must read my diaries’: unlocking the private life of Edna O’Brien
Towards the end of her life, the groundbreaking Irish novelist granted film-maker Sinéad O’Shea access to her most personal writing. What she revealed was shocking and inspiring