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Charlie Kaufman: 'Making people laugh makes me feel validated as a human'

The screenwriter behind Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind has written a novel - about a film critic who hates Charlie Kaufman

Published: 11 Jul 2020

2 out of 5 stars.

Artemis Fowl review – Judi Dench gruffs it out amid rogue fairies
2 out of 5 stars.

Kenneth Branagh directs this family-fantasy-by-numbers adapted from Eoin Colfer’s bestselling teen novels

Published: 11 Jun 2020

4 out of 5 stars.

Little Women review – the freshest literary adaptation of the year
4 out of 5 stars.

Greta Gerwig brings the entire March family to life like never before in a respectful but bracingly current version

Published: 29 Dec 2019

Sarah Waters: ‘Some of my readers really did hate me. They felt let down’

As The Little Stranger opens in cinemas, the novelist shares the betrayal felt by some lesbian readers over her supernatural whodunnit – and why it is a perfect metaphor for Brexit Britain

Published: 15 Sep 2018

The art of the article: Hollywood looks to journalism for the future

Long reads are proving irresistible to film executives, with Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck and Robert Redford all signing on to star in fact-based projects

Published: 10 Aug 2018

Decline and Fall on TV – would Evelyn Waugh have approved?

The prospect of a new BBC adaptation of Decline and Fall, starring Jack Whitehall and Eva Longoria, is stirring mixed feelings – will Waugh’s wit be sold short once again?

Published: 28 Mar 2017

Five best moments Chris Cooper: five best moments

The Oscar-winning actor stars with Jake Gyllenhaal in this week’s oddball comedy-drama Demolition, but what have been his smartest career choices?

Published: 29 Apr 2016

Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons Tom Gauld on books adapted for the screen – cartoon

After John le Carré talked about his book The Night Manager being adapted for TV, Tom shows books have feelings too

Published: 3 Mar 2016

TV and radio blog 11.22.63: James Franco's creepy date with American history

Franco goes into a magical closet and back in time to save JFK’s life in this soapy Stephen King adaptation that – thanks to sinister subplots and sadistic cockroaches – gets more ludicrous as time goes by

Published: 15 Feb 2016

A life in ... Patrick deWitt interview: ‘Certain writers look down their noses at plot. I was one of them – until I tried it’

The books interview: The author and screenwriter talks about his lucky break in a bar, making readers laugh and kicking genres in the teeth

Published: 14 Nov 2015

My highlight My highlight: The Go-Between by Jenny Turner

Less arty than the 1971 film, the new BBC version lets the tensions within LP Hartley’s novel emerge: land, money, war and revolution as well as sex

Published: 19 Sep 2015
Producers hit back after London Fields pulled from Toronto film festival

Muse said in a statement that director Mathew Cullen, who has filed a $1m lawsuit claiming he played no part in the film’s edit, ‘can’t deal with the fact that he does not control the final cut’

Published: 18 Sep 2015

5 out of 5 stars.

The Diary of a Teenage Girl review – a scaldingly honest coming-of-age comedy
5 out of 5 stars.

Often close to the bone, this exceptional film pulls off something seldom seen in cinema: a document of nascent female sexuality

Published: 6 Aug 2015

Ethan Hawke: ‘Mining your life is the only way to stumble on anything real'

The star of Boyhood and Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy reflects on his past work, life experience and blurring the lines between reality and fiction

Published: 29 Nov 2014
Baddies in books Baddies in books: General Woundwort, the rabbit who ran his warren like a Stasi commander

In our series on fictional villains, Xan Brooks argues that Richard Adams’ villain in Watership Down is made all the more scary by his moral complexity

Published: 11 Nov 2014

Carrie Brownstein to complete Nora Ephron's Lost in Austen script

Portlandia star to take on the late Ephron's unfinished tale of a woman transported back in time to Jane Austen's England

Published: 6 Aug 2014

Unthinkable? Unthinkable? A rethink of classic remakes

Editorial: Andrew Davies, the man who had Darcy rise up from the waters of Pemberley, once said: 'You have to get sex into the spine of the story'

Published: 25 Apr 2014
4 out of 5 stars.

Tom at the Farm (Tom à la Ferme) review – 'Disorientatingly strange'
4 out of 5 stars.

The latest offering from wunderkind Xavier Dolan makes a pleasant change. It's disciplined and intriguing, writes Peter Bradshaw

Published: 3 Apr 2014

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