Edinburgh film festival 2024: 12 of the best movies on show
From uplifting drama to gonzo body-horror and an intensely personal documentary, here are our favourite picks
Coraline review – delightfully creepy coming-of-age fantasy offers more than just scares
Henry Selick’s adapted from Neil Gaiman’s book about a young girl who finds new parents with buttons for eyes is a nifty stop-motion animation
Aliens, artists and Abscam: Amy Adams’ 20 best performances – ranked!
The six times Oscar-nominated actor, who turns 50 this month, stars in comedy horror Nightbitch releasing in December. We look back at some of her best roles
Post your questions for Teri Hatcher
What’s it like playing a Bond girl? Lois Lane? Being one degree from Kevin Bacon? The actor is here to tell all. And she might even talk about starring in the odd era-defining comedy drama
It Ends with Us review – Blake Lively anchors glossy romance adaptation
Colleen Hoover’s smash hit novel gets a winning and emotionally effective transfer to the big screen
Caligula: The Ultimate Cut review – 1970s Roman empire sex shocker returns to the source
Without the extra sex that made writer Gore Vidal want his credit removed, Tinto Brass’s epic of imperial eroticism showcases a powerhouse Malcolm McDowell
The Weak and the Wicked/No Trees in the Street review – tough, old school British drama
★★★★☆ / ★★★☆☆Two of J Lee Thompson’s early films – a gritty women’s prison drama and a postwar crime thriller – serve as a reminder that the director deserves more kudos as an artist
Historian Richard J Evans: ‘I’m planning to write a book about pandemics next. I’ve had enough of Nazis’
The author of the definitive account of the Third Reich on revisiting nazism one last time, the ongoing need to discredit Holocaust denial and fact-checking Martin Amis’s novel The Zone of Interest
On my radar: Sue Perkins’s cultural highlights
The broadcaster and standup comedian on her love of Angela Carter, bewitching Budapest, and a pizza restaurant that fuses Indian and Italian cuisine
Britney Spears memoir The Woman in Me headed to the big screen
Universal has acquired the rights to the bestselling tell-all, with Wicked’s Jon M Chu set to direct
The NeverEnding Story review – a wondrous world of beasts and young heroes
A grieving boy is drawn into a magical land in Wolfgang Petersen’s ambitious fantasy adventure, rereleased for its 40th anniversary
Werckmeister Harmonies review – Béla Tarr’s brooding masterpiece of a town sleepwalking into tyranny
Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky’s 2000 film moves slowly around a small town where a very strange circus has arrived. Its eerie power has only grown in a time of rising fascism
Kensuke’s Kingdom review – Michael Morpurgo’s desert island boy’s own adventure
Morpurgo’s yarn about a kid on a round the world voyage is adapted by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and attractively packaged as a family-friendly animation
Three review – Yugoslavian trilogy of tales tracks the horrors of the second world war
Aleksandar Petrović’s 1965 interlinked stories focus on the changes wrought in one young Yugoslavian by the brutality of the war and its aftermath
In brief: Banal Nightmare; Feeding the Monster; Burning Angel and Other Stories – review
Midlife millennial angst abounds in Halle Butler’s sardonic novel, while Anna Bogutskaya bites into our love of horror films, and Lawrence Osborne spans the globe with gripping tales