Nightbitch review – Amy Adams doggy fantasy-satire stays fatally muzzled

While Adams delivers what could be the performance of her career, Marielle Heller’s film shrinks away from a properly funny or scary exploration of motherhood and midlife crisis

Cillian Murphy as Voldemort? Everything we know about HBO’s Harry Potter TV show

Details are beginning to emerge about the ‘decade-long’ adaptation of JK Rowling’s books – with some starry actors reportedly in negotiations

‘A dancer dances, even with replaced hips and scoliosis’: only one actor can play Liza Minnelli

Despite Minnelli’s memoir not being finished and a queue of ‘Academy award, Emmy, Tony and Grammy winners excited to talk’, the star of the upcoming biopic is already obvious

‘I had this animal, physical desire to be with my child’: author Rachel Yoder on writing Nightbitch

The novelist’s cult book about a stay-at-home mother who turns into a dog is now a film starring Amy Adams. She talks about modern parenting, breaking taboos, and how Trump’s win spurred her to write

On my radar: Nathan Stewart-Jarrett’s cultural highlights

The Culprits actor on his favourite film for Christmas, the humour and rebellion in the work of artist Mike Kelley, and an inspiring book about failure

Rochelle Stevens obituary

Other lives: Literary agent who showed as much care and dedication for smaller passion projects as she did for commercial big hitters

Conclave review – Ralph Fiennes shines as papal election results in high-camp gripper

Fiennes is broodingly compelling as a potential English pope caught up in murky Vatican intrigue around choosing the next pontiff

That Christmas review – seasonal Richard Curtis yarn is kid-friendly but short on ho-ho-hos

There’s a nice nod to Love Actually, but this tale of a seaside town hit by a blizzard may still leave you cold

Where to start with: Hanif Kureishi

It seemed the writer would have to retire after a devastating fall in 2022. But now, approaching 70, he has been more creative than ever. Here’s how you can get to know his work

Pretentious, moi?: Josh Brolin’s poetry about Dune has landed, whether we like it or not

Brolin’s verses about Timothée Chalamet and Florence Pugh have now found their way into a London art gallery in the form of Dune: Exposures

Can DC really pull off a Sgt Rock movie with Daniel Craig and Luca Guadagnino on board?

It’s the unlikeliest match-up of the year – having collaborated on Queer, rumours are the pair are bringing the gruff comic book soldier to the screen

Wicked review – Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are a blast in sugar-rush Wizard of Oz fantasy

Stephen Schwartz’s musical prequel has been brought to the big screen, with Erivo’s charismatic Elphaba exerting a planetary pull over a star-studded cast

Sergio Leone, ‘the Man with No English’, mimed directions to spaghetti western star Clint Eastwood

The Italian film-maker overcame the language barrier with his actors by using mime, as revealed in previously unseen photographs

Colm Tóibín: ‘Ireland today is a much freer place’

The Irish author on how the sequel to his bestselling novel Brooklyn was inspired by the film, life in LA, and his thoughts on Trump’s victory

In brief: Nobody’s Empire; Cocktails With George and Martha; Never: The Autobiography – review

A touching coming-of-age novel from the Belle and Sebastian singer; a blow-by-blow account of a classic film; and pop star Rick Astley’s idiosyncratic life story