Ben Kingsley

The ‘Night at the Museum’ franchise limps into Bloomsbury: it should go no further

Utopia and dystopia loom large in the work of the Cork-born painter, who died last year

The Oscar winner will voice the role of Bagheera, alongside Luther star Idris Elba. Lupita Nyong’o and Scarlett Johansson are also in talks to join the remake

He has made just three films in 14 years – the first was universally praised, the second is a continuing puzzle to most, and now, Glazer latest,Under the Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson, is cleaving audiences into impassioned opposing camps

Patrick Morrison: November 16th, 1945-December 20th, 2013

This big budget adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s popular space opera is a bracing, if dubious, orgy of youthful militarism, writes Donald Clarke

Only 16, Hailee Steinfeld’s CV already boasts an Oscar nod and roles alongside the likes of Bridges, Ford Streep and Kingsley. How did she find herself in such illustrious company? “I never really found something that I loved as much as I love acting,” she tells Tara Brady

What better way to get you through the dark winter nights than beneath the flickering lights of a warm movie theatre? Donald Clarke runs through all the cinema releases between now and the new year

It took John Banville three years to write a book, and three days to turn it into his first film script. Money for jam, or beginner’s luck?

He has an Oscar, a Grammy and a knighthood. And now he’s an action figure. Ben Kingsley talks Iron Man Three.

Joss Whedon’s zippy ensemble adventure confirmed the continuing Marvel saga as a cinema staple for at least a decade to come