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The third instalment in James Cameron's mega-hit blockbuster franchise is "197 minutes of screensaver graphics, clunky dialogue, baggy plotting and hippy-dippy new-age spirituality".

From a controversial recreation of a Disney cartoon to an awards-tipped sports biopic starring The Rock, why did so many high-profile Hollywood films fail at the box office this year?

In a daring raid 75 years ago, four university students stole back an early symbol of the Scottish kings. It had been taken by an English monarch more than six centuries before.

From a "richly atmospheric" novella to a "virtuosic" debut - this is the very best fiction of the year, as chosen by BBC journalists.

As the new Knives Out film, Wake Up Dead Man, is released on streaming, here are more ingenious - and confounding - whodunnits to watch and read.

Fancy a change from The Muppet Christmas Carol? BBC journalists pick the films that get them in the holiday mood.

Tom Brook reported from the scene of John Lennon's death in 1980, later interviewing his young son. The two reconnect to discuss how Lennon's message reverberates today.

From the Breaking Bad creator's smart new sci-fi to the Alien franchise's first small-screen outing and the new season of Severance, we pick the year's greatest programmes to stream.

The pioneering primatologist destroyed the myth of gorillas as savage brutes before being killed by human hands, 40 years ago this month.

There is an art to rivalry. Mastering its rules has, since ancient times, shaped cultural history over millennia.