The Rules of Attraction: a surprisingly poignant Bret Easton Ellis adaptation

Starring James Van Der Beek, this 2002 film offers more than misanthropy in its portrait of young love and thwarted desire

Blackwater Lane review – medieval mansion is the star in haunted house stalker thriller

A teacher becomes increasingly paranoid as she roams around her fabulous home and gardens in this flimsy adaptation of BA Paris’s novel The Breakdown

‘Stuff happens and it sucks’: Brooke Shields on abuse, ageing and telling her own story

Brooke Shields, sexualised child star at just 11, is no stranger to tabloid controversy. Now 59, perhaps now she can tell us how she ended up so… normal?

On my radar: Naomi Alderman’s cultural highlights

The author of the bestselling The Power on her favourite video game, the courses she takes with the Open University, and why she is addicted to George Saunders’s substack

Send us your questions for Pamela Anderson

Got something you’d love to ask the former Baywatch star about her life and new career directions? Now’s your chance

A life in quotes: David Lynch

The visionary film-maker and prolific artist, purveyor of the dark, mysterious, abstract and unspoken, died aged 78

David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director, dies aged 78

Film-maker who specialised in surreal, noir style mysteries made a string of influential, critically acclaimed works including Wild at Heart and Eraserhead

Magic Beach review – Alison Lester’s classic picture book is enchanting on screen

Ten animators have produced 10 beautiful stories in this anthology film, ranging from fabulous stop-motion to delicate illustration

Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old by Brooke Shields review

The former child star on Hollywood’s ridiculous expectations of women – at every age

Here review – Hanks and Wright add folksy charm to Robert Zemeckis single-place drama

Set in the same spot – from prehistory onwards – Zemeckis’s sentimental drama is an odd combination of cosmic ambition and domestic intimacy

Magic Beach: how the beloved picture book became a spell-binding animation

Alison Lester’s 90s bestseller now has a big-screen adaptation from the director of The Dry, featuring 10 animated adventures by 10 different artists

Richard Price: ‘I don’t like to write, I just don’t – it’s too much anxiety’

The US novelist and co-writer of The Wire on why his new book isn’t about cops and robbers, his 80s drug addiction and the authors who have inspired him

On my radar: Siobhan Finneran’s cultural highlights

The actor on the band she can’t wait to see, the best place to meet friends for food in Manchester, and performance poetry that made her laugh and cry

Marilyn Monroe by Eve Arnold review – intimate, tender and witty photographs

In front of the camera Monroe was luminous, but in this reissued and sumptuous collection of pictures Arnold also captured the insecurity and pain

Harlan Coben says ‘quite a bit of tragedy’ in his 20s made him a better writer

Bestselling author and Netflix producer said extensive early experience of grief was ‘very cruel but effective teacher’