Movie pirate avoids prison after bootlegging The Revenant
A former film studio employee has been ordered to pay $1.12m to 20th Century Fox for illegally uploading Leonardo DiCaprio film to the internet
January 2016
Box office analysis: global
Backward-looking The Force Awakens might pay the price beyond the west
Total global dominance eludes Star Wars Episode VII, while Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight is his worst wide US debut
December 2015
Snoopy & Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie review – wry comic strip update
Colourful 3D animation brightens up the beloved creations of Charles Schulz, but the humour and observations remain the same
Christmas culture 2015
Five of the best films for Christmas 2015
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the monster rolling into your local multiplex, but there’s plenty of romance, comedy and horror too
Why I loved Charlie Brown and the Peanuts cartoons
Charlie Brown – the anxious, bungling Peanuts cartoon antihero meant more to Stuart Jeffries as a boy than any rip-roaring adventurer
November 2015
Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz on the necessity of loserdom
Sam Thielman in New York
The Peanuts Movie leaves Charlie Brown fans with hope, but Peanuts – the comic strip – is enduring because it accepts life’s aches and pains
Box office analysis: global
Spectre pits 007 against his greatest adversary – international exchange rates
Strong dollar holds Spectre back, Peanuts Movie bids for a new generation and The Martian becomes Ridley Scott’s highest grosser in box office analysis
The Peanuts Movie review – Charlie Brown turns 21st-century klutz
On their first cinema appearance in 25 years, the Peanuts kids are still sweet and charming, but this upgrade could have taken some account of the modern world
