The star who was left out in the cold: will Gary Oldman ever play Smiley again?

Oldman got an Oscar nomination for his turn as John le Carré’s rumpled spymaster. So what’s stopping a repeat performance?

I’m Still Here review – loving family negotiates the horror of Brazil’s military rule

Walter Salles’s first drama feature since 2012 tells the story of the Paivas, whose sunny 70s existence is wrecked by the arrest and disappearance of their father

The Order review – Jude Law leads neo-Nazi-hunting thriller with confident authority

Law is commanding opposite an icy Nicholas Hoult in true-crime story about the takedown of a far right militia in the 1980s

And Their Children After Them review – racism and revenge festers in smalltown France

Nineties-set drama adapted from the bestselling novel zeroes in on tensions in a post-industrial community, sparked by a feud over a motorbike

The Count of Monte Cristo review – a good-looking gallop through Dumas’ tale of revenge

Pierre Niney plays the man behind the multiple masks in this fast-moving adaptation that needs a touch more finesse

Touch review – unashamedly emotional love story travels back to the 1960s

Baltasar Kormákur’s beautifully shot romance sees Kristófer try to track down Miko, a lifetime after their youthful love affair is unexpectedly cut short

Silent Sherlock Holmes film to be screened for first time since 1922 release

The Golden Pince-Nez features Eille Norwood as the detective and has been restored by the BFI national archive

Roddy Doyle: ‘People used to say I was undermining family life … ludicrous stuff’

The Dublin author once caused outrage for writing about domestic abuse. As he publishes his third Paula Spencer novel, he talks about optimism, new Irish fiction – and the genius of Roy Keane

‘We’re not as open about sex as we imagine’: Gillian Anderson on pleasure, powerful women, and collecting secret fantasies

When the actor asked women to share their erotic secrets for a new book, she found herself rethinking her own relationship with desire - and deciding to have more fun

‘Something is in that room’: Guillermo del Toro disturbed by ‘ghosts’ in Scottish hotel

The Shape of Water director reports supernatural disturbance while staying in Aberdeen to shoot an adaptation of Frankenstein

Nothing But the Best review – raffish Alan Bates comedy is a time capsule of 60s London

Millicent Martin and Denholm Elliott also star in Clive Donner’s 1964 satire on class, filled with macabre twists

Sorry, Blake Lively: using a movie about domestic violence to sell stuff is not a good look

In a car-crash promotional tour for the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s controversial novel It Ends With Us, the actor has tried to flog not only her husband’s gin brand, but also a haircare line, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The 39 Steps review – comic homage to Hitchcock thriller goes off the rails

With four actors playing 130 parts, this revival of Patrick Barlow’s take on the spy film is fitfully funny but ultimately frustrating

The Last Dream by Pedro Almodóvar review – fantastical fictions and candid personal curios

The Spanish director’s 12 tales, written between the late 60s and today, are a heady mix of factual and fictitious, befitting of one of cinema’s most imaginative storytellers

Jill Robinson obituary

Writer who drew on her Hollywood childhood for her successful memoirs and novels