The Guardian view on booming poetry sales: Homer, meet the Instapoets
Editorial: In an unexpected twist, a Hollywood epic has contributed to Britain’s best-ever half-year in poetry sales
Out There review – saucer-eyed teen searches for aliens in YA comedy drama
Wales, 1999: Maz is convinced her dead father was abducted by extraterrestrials in Simon Ryninks’s likable film, with a funny turn from Michael Sheen as a new age type
These Violent Delights review – Scottish Ballet’s feverish Romeo and Juliet is bold and unsettling
A taut, dreamlike reimagining of Shakespeare’s tragedy strips away romance in favour of dread, creating an engrossing and fiercely physical dance film
Mad Rush review – an intricate phone scam isn’t quite enough to drive this very Melbourne movie
In Hollywood’s hands this would be a pulse-pounding thriller, but Maddelin McKenna’s lithe feature debut is all about street-level authenticity
‘I felt so inspired’: Guardian readers on trying Homer’s epics after seeing The Odyssey
Readers describe how Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster has ignited or reawakened their interest in classical texts
How the mob took Hollywood: the story of organized crime and the movies
Hollywood Crime Story: The Mob Takes Over the Movies looks back at how criminals insinuated themselves in the film business
The Beast to Novak Djokovic: The Wolf in Winter: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Léa Seydoux and George MacKay look for love in a soul-searching sci-fi romance. Plus, a rare documentary that might change your opinions on tennis ace Novak Djokovic
Something Wile E this way comes: how the Looney Toons reboot movie came back from the dead
Cartoon royalty were lined for a live-action toon hybrid Coyote vs Acme. Then it was shelved as a tax write-off. But its cast, crew and fans fought for its release. Three years later it’s set to be a surprise summer hit
Post your questions for Robert Carlyle
Bond villain, Begbie, male stripper … the Trainspotting and Full Monty star has played everyone from Sherlock Holmes to Rumpelstiltskin. As his latest directorial project premieres in Edinburgh, he is here to answer your questions
Nicole Kidman opens up about divorce from Keith Urban – and ‘throwing my career away’ for Tom Cruise
Actor, 59, reflects on high-profile marriages in Vogue interview, saying she felt ‘deeply vulnerable’ after split from Urban
Brian Robinson obituary
Other lives: BFI press officer and programmer for its Flare film festival
Borges, ballet and BDSM: 10 must-see movies at Edinburgh international film festival
The great Argentinian’s Highlands holiday, a mischievous doc about Jack the Ripper, the hypnotic latest from Nicolas Winding Refn and a kinky noir romp are among the best of this year’s lineup
Edinburgh international film festival showcases a Scottish industry in rude health
This year’s festival is superpowered by a strong year for Scottish cinema, showing it can thrive under the ‘four dimensional perpetual catch-22’ of global ambitions
‘It was fun to get pushed around’: Andrew Rannells on ‘razzle dazzle’, kissing co-stars and being a better friend to Lena Dunham
The star of Girls and The Book of Mormon talks about coming out, turning a showmance into a romance, and going toe to toe with the West Wing’s Allison Janney in new film Miss You Love You
Imelda Staunton: ‘Umbridge’s giggle needed to be short and sharp. So I just did a boom, boom’
The actor answers your questions on working with her dog, becoming a dame, Harry Potter, and making televisual history in The Singing Detective