movies
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Lights, camera, aliens … what we’ll be talking about at the movies next yearIn 2016, space invaders will take over from zombies, we shall laugh at international conflict and see Michael Bay finally getting serious -
Room author Emma Donoghue: ‘The situation is horrible, but the story is not’Like the five-year-old hero of her 2010 novel, the Irish writer has been on a journey of change. Now, having turned her tale about an enslaved family into a film – released later this month – she plans to reinvent it for the stage
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Michael Haneke to reunite with Isabelle Huppert for Calais-set dramaThe secretive director is said to be following up his Oscar-winner Amour with Happy End, a film that touches on the migration crisis in Europe -
History has a tendency to hard-bake in its own prejudicesThe star and director of a biopic about one of the first people to undergo gender reassignment surgery talk to Benjamin Lee
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In a warehouse far, far away, the galaxy's top Star Wars collector holds courtAs Force Awakens breaks box office records, Steve Sansweet has accumulated 350,000 franchise artifacts at his 9,000-square-foot Rancho Obi-Wan
best of 2015
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The best films of 2015: Guardian readers' choiceHow well do we know our readers? How far do the choices of Guardian critics and consumers intersect? The results are through – and the disparity is interesting …
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interactive full listThe Guardian film team’s favourite movies released in the US in 2015, counting down to the best of the year
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tell us your choice - and what you think of oursOur critics’ votes are in ... As we count down the best films of the year, it’s your chance to nominate the movie you enjoyed the most this year
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Gut-churningly beautiful storytellingBirdman director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s new movie pitches Leonardo DiCaprio against nature, bears and Tom Hardy in a tale of revenge, retribution and primal violence
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Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling superb as couple freshly possessed by the pastIn Andrew Haigh’s intelligent and moving drama, a retired husband and wife must rethink their whole lives together following the fallout from old news
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Agatha Christie with gags, guns and Samuel L JacksonA blood-splattered murder mystery in 19th-century Wyoming is the notional plot for Tarantino’s swaggering off-message and old-fashioned three-hour masterpiece
video & audio
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The Guardian film showThe Guardian film showThe Guardian film show: Joy, In the Heart of the Sea and The Danish Girl – video reviewsThe film team review this week’s big releases, include David O Russell’s biopic of the Miracle Mop inventor and Eddie Redmayne as the world’s first sex change operation patient
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The Dailies podcastThe Dailies podcastTim Roth's Fifa shame and Hollywood's best value actors – the Dailies film podcastThe Guardian film team’s daily round-up of the latest movie news and reviews
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Dame Barbara Windsor and James Nesbitt OBE react to New Year honours – videoNorthern Irish actor James Nesbitt jokes ‘I should have gone for a knighthood’ and Barbara Windsor says she’s ‘knocked out’
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Burt Reynolds meets Hadley Freeman - Guardian Live eventTo celebrate his autobiography But Enough About Me, veteran actor Burt Reynolds joins Hadley Freeman at a Guardian Live event to talk candidly about his career, Sinatra, Monroe and who would play him in the film of his life
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David O Russell on Joy: 'If you're going to live a fairytale you've got to go through the goblins' – video interviewThe director of Joy, which stars Jennifer Lawrence as the inventor of the Miracle Mop talks about everyday sublimity with Catherine Shoard
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The Guardian film show: Joy, In the Heart of the Sea and The Danish Girl – audio reviewsOur film critics review this week’s new releases
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Black Lives Matter's first science fiction filmThe only stormtrooper we see without his mask is John Boyega, leading us to imagine that the rest of them are black – and the film is an Afrofuturist parable Warning: spoilers
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Is Trading Places the best financial film ever?The Big Short is released in the new year, but greed and financial crashes have long been popular cinema themes. Here are our business team’s top picks
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The Revenant and The Hateful Eight leaked – and awards season is to blameGiven the way the film industry widely distributes DVDs to Oscar voters while hyping new movies to the skies, it’s amazing that they don’t leak more often
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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler: sisters in comedy rip into the boys' clubThe duo’s Saturday Night Live success helped women wisecrack their way to the top of the box office and now the pair are back with a new film
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Michael Moore: 'Donald Trump is a performance artist'On the eve of the limited US release of his film Where to Invade Next, the film-maker says that he expects Trump to be the Republican candidate
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Will Ferrell: ‘Ignorance is a key part of comedy’Will Ferrell knows exactly how to make us laugh. He’s back with Mark Wahlberg for his latest film, Daddy’s Home, and will soon return as Mugatu in Zoolander 2. Tim Adams meets him to see what’s behind the most expressive jowls in America
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Pilou Asbæk: ‘I didn’t know what I had with Borgen’The Danish actor on regrets, his strict upbringing and how time spent with soldiers on his new film, A War, changed his views
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Viola Davis: ‘We have to live our truths through our work and define ourselves in our own terms’She won an Emmy for her role in How to Get Away With Murder – and admiration for her inspiring acceptance speech
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Paul Dano on acting, love and embarrassing parents: 'They have way too many pictures of me'He’s known for playing misfits in There Will Be Blood and Little Miss Sunshine – now the actor is turning his back on Hollywood to take on Tolstoy
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Bruce Campbell: ‘Some guy called me the Gregory Peck of B-movies’He’s made a French film and played Ronald Reagan but, for a loyal army of fans, he will always be Ash from The Evil Dead. We salute a cult legend
regulars
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Five best momentsFive best momentsRobert De Niro: five best momentsWith a sparky new role in David O Russell’s Miracle Mop biopic Joy, here is a look back at the Oscar winner’s finest performances
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The film quizThe film quizPause for thought: the 2015 movie screengrab quizTo cap off a cinematic year filled with superheroes, dinosaurs and existential pigeons, here is 2015’s ultimate film quiz. Can you match the deliberately obscure screengrab to the movie?
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DVDs and downloads
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Philip French's classic DVDPhilip French's classic DVDThe Ladykillers review – the greatest comedy caperAlec Guinness’s thieves without honour are no match for Katie Johnson’s Mrs Wilberforce in this allegory of postwar Britain
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentMaking A Murderer, a frighteningly addictive true-crime taleBegun before the streaming platform even existed, this new Netflix documentary is made for binge-watching
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsRicki and the Flash; The Wolfpack; The Company You Keep; On the Beach – reviewA Meryl Streep masterclass and an outlandish documentary about six brothers are among this year’s surprising omissions from the Oscars race
you may have missed
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What 2015's movie posters would look like if they told the truth – in picturesWhat the ad campaigns for Minions, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, 50 Shades and others should really have looked like
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A woman’s place? How Hollywood learned to love superheroinesMove over Leo and Eddie. It’s female stars who will dominate next year’s releases
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The film predictions we got right – and wrong – in our 2015 previewWe were correct about the likely quality of new movies by Andrew Haigh and Noah Baumbach – but miles off the mark when we predicted future classics from Cameron Crowe and Gus Van Sant
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My favourite Christmas film: Christmas HolidayThe brassy confidence of Robert Siodmak’s twisted 1944 tale – starring Gene Kelly cast against type as a charming murderer – deserves to win it more plaudits during the annual Frank Capra love-in
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Saddle up and head for the cinema: the western is back in townQuentin Tarantino leads a stampede of movies harking back to the days of the old frontier – and TV is transplanting the genre to Yorkshire
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On strike at 8,848 metres: Sherpa and the story of an Everest revolutionJennifer Peedom set out to make a documentary about the untold role the Sherpas play in helping wealthy western climbers conquer Mount Everest, but when an avalanche hit during her shoot, she ended up with an even bigger story
David O Russell: ‘I relate to Joy – she manages a lot of commerce that is unforgiving and nasty’