To Kill a Mockingbird: a call to compassion that’s more urgent than ever
The 1962 adaptation of Harper Lee’s enduring courtroom drama is a manifesto for tolerance. It’s lost none of its power today
Daisy Edgar-Jones to lead new big-screen take on Sense and Sensibility
The Normal People and Twisters star will play Elinor in a new version of the Jane Austen classic
Clueless review – Alicia Silverstone and Brittany Murphy are class acts in 90s Jane Austen parallel
Amy Heckerling’s high school romcoming-of-age classic, composed entirely of quotable funny lines, remains a sophisticated pleasure 30 years on
It Used to Be Witches by Ryan Gilbey review – an idiosyncratic guide to queer cinema
This engaging and experimental book explores the complex politics of LGBTQ+ representation in film
Reconstruction review – teens re-enact crimes for state-driven pantomime in communist Romania
Lucian Pintilie’s grimly ironic 1968 film is based on real events, in which delinquents are forced to act out their brawl in front of government cameras
Mark Peploe, Oscar-winning scriptwriter of The Last Emperor, dies aged 82
Screenwriter, whose 1987 collaboration with Bernardo Bertolucci won nine Oscars, was also known for The Passenger directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Michael Rabiger obituary
Other lives: Pioneering documentarian and author who wrote ‘the bible’ for documentary film-makers
‘The risk was worth it’: All Fours author Miranda July on sex, power and giving women permission to blow up their lives
The artist and author’s hit book had so much in common with her own life that even her friends forgot it wasn’t real. How did this revolutionary portrayal of midlife desire come to inspire a generation of women?
Cal review – grieving Helen Mirren superb in compassionate Troubles romance
Mirren won best actress at Cannes in 1984 for her role as Marcella, who forms a relationship with John Lynch’s Cal – a man complicit in her husband’s murder
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life review – witty, well-played French comedy in a Bridget Jones vein
Camille Rutherford is endearing as a writer who wins a place on a Jane Austen retreat, but will she discover love or something more realistic?
Frederick Forsyth obituary
Foreign correspondent who went on to become a hugely successful thriller writer best known for The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth, Day of the Jackal author and former MI6 agent, dies aged 86
Writer used his experience reporting on De Gaulle’s France to plot his thriller, and continued to draw on real-world research for subsequent bestsellers
Tom Felton expresses support for JK Rowling despite controversy over her views on trans issues
The actor who played Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films says he is ‘incredibly grateful’ to Rowling, and that her books have ‘brought the world together’
Kwesi Owusu obituary
Writer and film-maker at the heart of the African Dawn group who directed the critically acclaimed 1991 feature Ama
Walk on the wild side: Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs on their epic hiking movie The Salt Path
Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir about her and her husband’s 630-mile trek around England’s south coast has become a film. Its stars, makers and Winn talk floods, fog and forgiveness