Sidney Poitier, who has died aged 94, was one of cinema’s most beautiful giants

Donald Clarke: The mellifluous Poitier didn’t just break down barriers, he was also of the great movie stars

Peter Bogdanovich, Last Picture Show director, dies at 82

Oscar-nominated film-maker’s many credits include What’s Up, Doc? and Paper Moon

Alec Baldwin kills cinematographer with prop gun on film set

Incident occurred during the making of US actor’s independent movie Rust, in New Mexico

Budd Schulberg: The screenwriter who made Marlon Brando a star

He spent a weekend with F Scott Fitzgerald, saw Nazi Germany and wrote On The Waterfront

Maureen Dowd: How did we go from Abraham Lincoln to a Sharknado reject?

Even if Joe Biden wins on Tuesday, it will not be easy to restore what has been lost

Steve Martin at 75: ‘The name Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr still makes me laugh’

Sarah Silverman, Reginald D Hunter and more on a ‘profoundly stupid, completely brilliant’ comic

Armageddon time: how Stanley Kubrick made us laugh at the annihilation of the human race

Re-issued in cinemas next week some 55 years after its initial theatrical run, Dr Strangelove is arguably the most improbable comedy ever made

Maureen Dowd: We are in a war over what kind of America we want

Trump’s genius for hate and division has driven us into a canyon that won’t be easy to exit

In 1979 nobody bat an eyelid about Woody Allen's character (42) dating a 17-year-old

Four decades on, Woody Allen’s classic movie 'Manhattan' is majorly compromised

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest review: Still raising hell

The sexual politics have dated but the themes of Miloš Forman’s classic remain potent and urgent

Benjamin Cleary: ‘I keep thinking I’ll wake up and discover this isn’t real’

In any other year, Oscar nominee Benjamin Cleary would be the name on everyone’s lips – but he’s delighted to be in the race with Room and Brooklyn

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