Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! by Liza Minnelli review – a heady brew of gossip, glamour and defiance
Lady Gaga and David Gest are among those who get ferocious dressings-down in this brutally candid memoir
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
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
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 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
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
The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley is electrifying as frizzy-haired, black-tongued monster’s wife
The actor has a blast as bride to Christian Bale’s lonely creature in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s darkly comic and gleefully bizarre reimagining of the 1935 film
Flagship Harry Potter store to open on London’s Oxford Street
British outlet for the Hogwarts-adjacent ‘interactive retail experience’ will include ‘photo moments’ and exclusive merchandise
Game of Thrones film adaptation in the works at Warner Bros
Blockbuster adaptation of George RR Martin’s fantasy world will focus on events 300 years before the HBO series’ pilot
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A Lonely Dragon Wants to Be Loved review – sword, sorcery and smartphones
Those not up to speed on the Miss Kobayashi manga may struggle with the full nuance of this dimension hopping anime, but the visuals are stunningly to look at
The Last Kings of Hollywood by Paul Fischer review – the rise and reign of Spielberg, Lucas and Coppola
An epic account of how three demigod directors, in pursuit of indie freedom, redefined American film-making
‘What’s under my saucepans? Rage!’ Claire Foy, Andrew Garfield and cast on the set of The Magic Faraway Tree
The trippy film of Enid Blyton’s much loved novels has been 20 years in the making. We catch up with its adult and child stars – inside a giant cake as disco-dancing elves rollerskate past
Dirty Business to Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir: the week in rave reviews
A damning fact-based drama about a UK water pollution scandal, and the French survivor of rape tells her harrowing story. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews
Scholar, seductress, alchemist: who was the real Cleopatra?
The Egyptian queen has fascinated me from childhood, but following the archives led only to ancient gossip and Roman propaganda. Fiction was the way to liberate her from misogynist myth
All You Need Is Kill review – time loop anime offers giant alien flower for Groundhog Day with mechs
New version of the sci-fi day-on-repeat sees a perplexed duo repeatedly battle monstrous plants but leaves you feeling as bored as the protagonist appears