Paul McWilliams obituary
Other lives: Visual effects specialist who worked on films and later switched to become a PE teacher and charity volunteer
Would starring in Men in Black really have made David Schwimmer a movie star?
The Friends actor says he regrets not going for the role made famous by Will Smith, but could he have made ‘I make this look good’ as good?
Norman Spencer, David Lean’s collaborator and UK’s second oldest man, dies aged 110
The producer, screenwriter, production designer and actor worked on some of the most acclaimed films of British cinema including Blithe Spirit, The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia
Film industry ‘nowhere near’ gender parity, says London festival head
Kristy Matheson bemoans ‘alarmingly’ low number of mid-career female directors as festival lineup unveiled
My First Film review – charismatic new star beefs up audacious grad school-style project
Slippery and unsubtle, Zia Anger’s film about a film-maker is saved from self-indulgence by its sly humour
‘You’re part of the tornado’: the summer of moviegoing game-changer 4DX
The immersive theatrical experience, which sees your seat move, shake and often spray water, has seen a record summer
Summer box office 2024: what were the big winners and losers?
Early concerns at underperformance of big bets dissipated with string of megahits from Inside Out 2 to It Ends with Us
Is this really the end of the line for Deadpool? Disney will never turn off the money tap
Poised to take a billion dollars at the box office, the sweary and ultraviolent Deadpool & Wolverine proves where there’s muck there’s brass – so there can’t not be a sequel
Tell us: do you bring your own snacks to the cinema?
We’d like to hear from people about whether they bring their own food and drink or prefer to choose from the cinema’s own options
A woman brought her own snacks to Despicable Me 4. Then the police arrived
Many struggling cinemas depend on sales of pricey food and drink as ticket revenue mainly goes to film studios. But does banning outside supplies really add up, asks Stuart Heritage
Breaking the bank: are Hollywood stars getting paid too much?
Robert Downey Jr’s return to the Marvel universe will make him the highest-paid actor in the industry but post-strikes, should A-listers be taking all the cash?
More than half UK’s film and TV workers still unemployed after Hollywood strikes
Bectu survey shows just 6% of workers have seen a full recovery in employment a year on from joint industrial action by Sag-Aftra and the Writers Guild of America
Jimmy Kimmel and John Mulaney turn down Oscars host role
Mulaney had been tipped as a successor after his supporting turn this year, when Kimmel presented the awards show for a fourth time
‘Hold on to your seats’: how much will AI affect the art of film-making?
The future is here, whether some like it or not, and artificial intelligence is already impacting the film industry. But just how far can, and should, it go?
Pamela Cullen obituary
Other lives: London regional manager for the National Film Development Corporation of India in the 1970s and 80s