Magpie

Ridley Scott returns to Rome with his sequel Gladiator II this week, while a family gets together for Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point and horror lurks beneath an ancestral house in Tumbbad. A neglected 12-year-old goes looking for adventure in Bird - see what director Andrea Arnold said about it - and jazz and decolonisation intertwine in Soundtrack To A Coup d'Etat. There's an exploration of masculinity in Silent Men and a dark fairytale is brought up to date in Piper - we spoke with director Anthony Waller. A Second World War veteran embarks on a journey in The Last Rifleman and an Irishman meets his American cousin in The Problem With People - we interviewed stars Paul Reiser and Colm Meaney. An 11-year-old goes on a quest with her failed stage magician father in Bookworm and a woman faces up to her partner's infidelity in Magpie. Meanwhile, a teenager is imprisoned by agoraphobia in Fright, Exhibition On Screen presents art documentary Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers, and there's a big screen re-release for the original Point Break.

We also have a great selection of film and streaming suggestions in our Stay-at-Home Seven. Plus read our selection of London Film Festival highlights.

• Silent Men
• Soundtrack To A Coup d'Etat
• Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point
• Gladiator II
• Magpie
• Bookworm
• Piper
• Changing The Game
• Tumbbad