Jules Feiffer, award-winning political cartoonist and writer, dies at 95
The provocative Pulitzer prize-winner was known for his edgy comic strip and his screenplay for Carnal Knowledge
Vomiting! Fainting! Heart attacks! How dangerous can it be to watch a movie?
An early screening of the new Mission: Impossible film allegedly pushed an attendee close to a medical emergency, as movie-goers are increasingly promised visceral reactions
Rayner urged to approve Marlow film studios in test of Labour planning policy
Inquiry into plan backed by director James Cameron begins after council rejected it over use of green-belt land
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
Up the River With Acid review – intimate, abstract portrait of a father’s dementia
Harald Hutter sets his documentary in his parents shabby-chic home, a metaphor for his ageing academic father’s loosening threads of reality
Into the Deep review – Richard Dreyfuss brings the meaning to smugglers v sharks thriller
Full of cliche-riddled dialogue and bizarre flashbacks, this basic effort is only saved by a tacked-on lecture from Jaws star Dreyfuss
Are you being watched? Soderbergh’s ghost voyeur movie taps strange truths
Presence, the story of a family haunting where the camera’s eye is the spectre’s point of view, draws on what are for many people all too palpable phenomena
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
Grafted review – Face/Off-style skin-graft horror has layers of punky attitude
A Chinese student arrives in New Zealand and continues her father’s experimental research in Sasha Rainbow’s cosmetic chiller
The Brutalist and Emilia Perez’s voice-cloning controversies make AI the new awards season battleground
Two leading contenders for Oscars this year have revealed use of artificial intelligence in the editing suite – will it affect their chances?
Oscar buzz and genre snubs: will the Academy finally give sci-fi, fantasy and horror their due?
Genre films typically only get the technical gongs, but critical smashes such as Dune: Part Two, Wicked and The Substance could make ‘prestige’ category wins a reality this year
Dead Before They Wake review – brutal grooming-gang thriller marries mawkishness and bloodlust
Seemingly inspired by the Rotherham child rape scandal, Nathan Shepka’s film has both a streak of sentimentality and an appetite for violence
Sunray: Fallen Soldier review – staple guns pressed into service in brutal payback thriller
When a demobbed British marine goes after his daughter’s killers, his old comrades pile in to beef up the relentless gunfights
‘An unmitigated joy’: why Married to the Mob is my feelgood movie
The next entry in our series of writers recommending their favourite comfort films is a tribute to Jonathan Demme’s zesty gangster comedy
Share your tributes and memories of David Lynch – and your most Lynchian photograph
We would like to hear your memories of David Lynch, as well as whether you are attending today’s global group transcendental mediation at noon PT