‘All that hyperventilating makes you dizzy’: Brendan Fraser and Darren Aronofsky on The Whale

The actor and director are joined by screenwriter Samuel D Hunter to discuss career comebacks, the hazards of Hollywood and the importance of human connection

Will Smith begins road to redemption with Oscar-tipped slavery drama

Emancipation premiered to gushing reviews for the actor whose infamous slap left his reputation in tatters. Is the comeback on?

Box office blues: why are so many films bombing this season?

A poor Thanksgiving showing is the latest sign that Hollywood is struggling to lure consumers back to the multiplex

Sr review – Robert Downey Jr paints an affectionate portrait of his father

Downey Jr starred in Robert Downey Sr’s wacky counterculture movies as an child; now he puts this radical and potent personality in a documentary of his own

‘Wow, Samuel L Jackson is here!’ – how Yorkshire became Marvel’s go-to location

Why did the superhero franchise descend on the moors? What made Tom Cruise film Mission: Impossible nearby, and Shane Meadows follow suit? We report from new screen star hotspot Halifax – now being renamed Haliwood

Claydream review – claymation genius behind California Raisins tells own story

Animation geeks will enjoy following the twists and turns in the remarkable career of claymation expert Will Vinton

Juanita Moore: the Oscar nominee who fought stereotypes and racism

The Imitation of Life star was pigeonholed and undervalued by Hollywood but years later, she is finally receiving the recognition she deserves

‘My dad Roy Kinnear died filming a stunt. Why are lives still at risk?’

Decades after the star’s death, safety on set for cast and crew is not the priority it should be, says the award-winning actor Rory Kinnear

Hollywood: The Oral History by Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson review – dinner with the stars

From pancakes with Jack Nicholson to drinks with Billy Wilder – stories from the great and good of Tinseltown

‘Storytelling has become the art of world building’: Avatar and the rise of the paracosm

James Cameron’s sequel to his 2009 fantasy epic continues cinema’s love of imaginary worlds formed in childhood that have produced some of film’s most bankable blockbusters

Danny Boyle says the British may not be ‘great film-makers’

Speaking at the BFI Southbank, the director said the UK instead excelled at theatre and ‘extraordinary’ pop music

Kunle Afolayan on Aníkúlápó : ‘I said this movie would be bigger than Game of Thrones’

The Nigerian director explains how his film has become a huge Netflix hit and why he doesn’t care it’s been overlooked for an Oscar

Ian Whittaker obituary

Set decorator who worked for Merchant Ivory productions, and with Ken Russell and Ridley Scott

Andrea Riseborough: ‘I needed to shake off the studio system. You feel like a cog in a vast machine’

The chameleonic star excelled in everything from sci-fi to comedy, but felt her creative spark waning. She talks about finding it again – and coming to terms with the oddness of acting for a living

Martin Scorsese: obsession with box office takings is ‘repulsive’

Speaking at the New York film festival, the director said that cinema was ‘devalued, demeaned, belittled from all sides’