Viola Davis plays a woman who brings together a group of women to pull off a heist after the deaths of their criminal husbands in ‘Widows’. She tells Laura Harding why this kind of film is so important.

Widows: Five stars Juliet, Naked: Four stars Peterloo: Three stars

Why would any woman support a power structure built on misogyny and led by a man whose contempt for women is part of his appeal to men? asks Suzanne Harrington

Women read crime novels twice as much as men — but are we really hardwired to love thrillers? Rowena Walsh examines the genre we can’t get enough of.

In light of the violent gun attack in the Greektown neighbourhood of their city the Toronto Film Festival’s CEO Piers Handling and artistic director Cameron Bailey announced this year’s first films today with little fanfare.

Marian Keyes, Eimear McBride, and Edna O’Brien join JK Rowling and Harper Lee on a list of the 100 essential books by female writers from the past 100 years, according to a new poll.

Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl.

International best-selling thriller Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn last year helped one of the largest independent booksellers in the country, O’Mahony’s Booksellers, return to profit after two years of losses.

Like the idea of being well read but can’t face actually reading the book?

If you haven't been watching Channel 4 TV show Utopia yet you've been missing out on one of the weirdest but most compelling series' around. Not to mention one of the most unique looking.

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After thoroughly enjoying Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl I decided to check out the rest of her output to date. Her first novel, 2006's Sharp Object was a spiky treat but 2009's Dark Places just never grabbed me.

A film about a team of comic superheroes and a compilation album of chart hits were the top-selling Christmas presents on Amazon.co.uk.

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Rosamund Pike has spoken about the urge she had to “bring something positive into the world” when she finished work on the highly-anticipated film Gone Girl.

So have seen Gone Girl yet? Lots of us have already read the book.

Our suggestions for five things to do this week.

Ben Affleck enjoyed ditching his strict diet for Gone Girl.

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A husband is suspected of foul play after his wife disappears in Gone Girl; Harry Connick Jr and Morgan Freeman star in the family-friendly sequel Dolphin Tale 2; a legendary vampire rises from the grave in the blood-sucking fantasy Dracula Untold, and Kevin Costner stars in American football yarn Draft Day.

When his wife goes missing, a husband falls under suspicion of murder.

From food to fashion, movies to music, our critics pick their hot 100 for autumn.

From religious tomes to best-selling novels and personal faves, Mark Evans wants you to get voting.

In honour of World Book Day - we're taking a look at the top book to movie adaptations coming to screens in 2014

Hollywood may be hoping for less drama in 2014. 2013 was a tale of two cinemas.

Christina Hendricks will co-star in 'Dark Places'.

CRIME fiction is regarded as a good vehicle for reflecting the times in which it is written.

The macabre Gone Girl, the surprise US bestseller, has been criticised as misogynist, but its author Gillian Flynn’s depictions of women eschew blandness for darker truths, says Suzanne Harrington

THE S/S 2013 Fashion Weeks were seeing double, with some of the biggest international names sending their models out twinned, two by two.

Charlize Theron is in talks to star in crime thriller 'Dark Places'.

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