The Great Arch review – a visionary architect crushed by the politics of prestige
Claes Bang plays the Danish designer of Paris’s Grande Arche in a meticulous drama about artistic purity colliding with bureaucratic ego and national vanity
Scarlet review – Mamoru Hosoda turns Hamlet into tale of prowling knights and deep ‘nothingness’
The normally great director misses the mark with a wonderfully animated but narratively clunky retelling of the Shakespearean staple
‘Cathartic violence’: why Kill Bill: Volume 1 is my feelgood movie
The next in our ongoing series of writers picking their favourite comfort films is an argument that Tarantino’s bloody revenge saga is a feelgood winner
Why Train Dreams should win the best picture Oscar
With its meditative pace and sincere interest in moral questions, Clint Bentley’s film of a rudderless man cutting down trees in Idaho’s verdant vistas has the air of a Hollywood classic from another era
Terraforma review – unhurried portrait of Ascension Island’s human-made nature
Documentary reflects on how Victorian botanists began to remodel a barren ocean outpost, but omits some crucial environmental and social questions
Which are more like life, novels or films?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
The making of Fargo at 30: ‘Man, you don’t give me this role, I’m gonna shoot your dog’
As the Oscar-winning Coen brothers classic reaches its three decade anniversary, stars of the film discuss the stories behind its production
‘A very paternalistic attitude’: why is female desire still not taken seriously?
In documentary The Pink Pill, the fight to provide access to the so-called ‘female Viagra’ exposes an industry that still discounts the needs of women
‘Kitty karma’? Jessie Buckley tries to claw back approval after enraging cat-lovers
Oscar favourite insists she is a ‘lover of cats’ after telling podcast about ultimatum she once gave to now husband
From The Bride! to Harry Styles: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
Maggie Gyllenhaal gives us a new take on The Bride of Frankenstein, and the stadium-conquering pop prince is back with a new album
‘A piece of supremely nasty mischief’: the Guardian’s film critic on the latest White House war video
In a chilling social media video that is beyond irony, clips from Braveheart, Gladiator, Superman and Top Gun are crassly interspersed with real kill-shot footage of the attacks in Iran
Daryl Hannah slams Ryan Murphy’s Love Story as ‘tragedy-exploiting’ and ‘textbook misogyny’
Actor penned scathing essay for the New York Times, criticising show’s portrayal of her and sharing she’s received ‘threatening’ messages since it aired
The Game of Thrones movie is coming – but how are they going to make audiences root for the baddies?
The early intel from George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels paints the Targaryens as tyrants – so making them the heroes is going to require some hefty literary PR
Ben Affleck sells his AI postproduction startup to Netflix
Announcing the InterPositive deal, the actor says he was moved from being scared of the technology to embracing it
From luxury ‘dupes’ to literary doubles: why doppelgangers are everywhere right now
AI ‘twins’, Mar-a-Lago lookalikes, Melania impersonator conspiracies … doubles proliferate in today’s culture – and nowhere more so than in a series of unsettling new novels that draw on a rich gothic tradition to tap into our paranoid times