‘It was to make bank managers less uptight’: the toy that put Newton’s law on executive desks
The eccentric British design firm behind Ballrace, the bestselling shiny 1970s Newton’s cradle, is celebrated in a new book
K-pop, K-movies, a Nobel prize … and now K-poetry: book of wise words adds to Korea’s cultural glory
After Han Kang’s Nobel award and South Korean cinema hits, Penguin publishes new English edition of maxims by Lee Seong-bok in wake of US success
Luca Guadagnino to direct new take on Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho
Call Me by Your Name and Challengers film-maker to bring new interpretation to hit novel to the screen
‘Trump, the movie’ is a fun watch, but read the book if you really want to know all about him
Lucky Loser reveals just how much Donald owes to his father (spoiler alert: everything), says the Guardian journalist Emma Brockes
Carrie review – Brian De Palma’s horror masterpiece is a death metal spectacle of carnage
Sissy Spacek unforgettably evolves from ugly duckling to swan to something else entirely in the groundbreaking film of Stephen King’s novel
The Crime Is Mine review – François Ozon’s 1930s crime comedy is a moreish crowdpleaser
Ozon and a stellar cast serve up an entertaining, if shallow caper that shades a little too close to #MeToo
Alienation effect: why film-makers can’t get enough of Franz Kafka
A string of auteur directors – from Orson Welles to Steven Soderbergh to Lorenza Mazzetti – have fallen for Kafka’s visionary brilliance, with always-intriguing results
‘Engrossing and mysterious’: the Powell-Pressburger masterpiece that might have been
Lyon’s Lumière festival screened a fascinating footnote to the great duo’s career: Behold a Pale Horse, an adaptation of Emeric Pressburger’s novel by Fred Zinnemann
Sonny Boy: A Memoir by Al Pacino review – from fish out of water to Hollywood star
The method actor traces his path to success, spending as much time on the films that flopped as the greatest hits
Robert Coover obituary
One of the leading lights of US postmodern fiction best known for his 1969 short story The Babysitter and The Public Burning
My Hero Academia: You’re Next review – old-style superhero battle anime with hint of the surreal
The fourth film spin-off from the daffy Japanese X-Men knock-off beams its dream-like action into a flying fortress where victims are turned into superfolk
What I Ate in One Year by Stanley Tucci review – one bite too many?
The Hollywood star’s fourth food book starts well enough but quickly descends into bland anecdote, leaving his endearing charm and wit to season an empty plate
In brief: The Catchers; Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife; Every Man for Himself and God Against All – review
Xan Brooks’s second novel takes readers on a musical road trip through 1920s Appalachia; a story-packed history celebrates inspirational medieval women; and a characteristically unusual memoir from Werner Herzog
On my radar: Evan Dando’s cultural highlights
The Lemonheads musician on crazy websites, cosy restaurants and a bar where it’s always Christmas
What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts) by Stanley Tucci review – starry friends and tasty morsels
Slop with Ralph Fiennes and champagne with Jilly Cooper – a gastronomical actor’s escapades