There’s swashbuckling and explosions, but Adam Driver is the real star of the ninth and final film in the Skywalker saga

Chinese film-maker Bi Gan’s movie slips into a beautiful, bewildering netherworld

Tom Hooper’s musical adaptation is weird, wonderful and worryingly erotic

In five decades, Nigel Andrews saw every movie and met all the stars. This is what he learnt

From ‘Raging Bull’ to ‘Spirited Away’, the FT’s outgoing film critic picks his top movies

Saoirse Ronan shines as the tomboyish lead sister in this adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel — with sly feminist subtexts

The director’s satire on consumerist culture shines through in this sparkling new print

Nigel Andrews on how the Italian auteur abandoned neorealism for something looser and more fantastical

The versatile Monty Python star who sided with the underdog

For a postwar movie generation Kirk Douglas was the definition of ‘macho’

Ever since I was knee-high to Nosferatu, I have loved steps and stairs on screen

Master of high miserabilism who starred in ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘The Seventh Seal’

War films 1917 and the upcoming Painted Bird are the latest entries in a sub-genre driven by relentless adversity and survival

Uber cuts 3,700 staff, Libra’s first CEO, Microsoft Surface surfeit

Swiss firm hired to test mainstream software despite launch of go-it-alone system

Projects under way range from more efficient legal aid to facilitating esignatures

Posts from high-profile accounts found to be promoting questionable virus therapies and cures

Inflexion has become majority shareholder following sexual assault allegations against former CEO

NHS team is told to build alternative on system being developed by Apple and Google

Flexibility and lower fees appeal — but not all providers are competing on price

Ease of access and (sometimes) greater affordability are attracting a broader demographic

Would-be students need to consider the trade-off between flexibility and networking

Online learning modules boost students’ academic confidence and business knowhow

Find out which schools are offering distance-learning post-graduate business degrees

Online courses grow while future of campus-based qualifications is questioned

Enrollees from India and China make up a third of intake

Teaching geared to developing ‘ability to use wide range of career skills’

Robot teachers are the start of an evolving relationship with artificial intelligence

Universities and business schools are facing unprecedented challenges across the world

Online learning group grants free access to teaching platform for institutions in lockdown

The coronavirus crisis has created new ways to learn and collaborate

Candidates at Wharton among those protesting over diminished educational experience

Growing understanding of the costs and fading stigma is driving demand 

Executive education courses are teaching how to manage multigenerational teams 

Hidden paradise blossomed for 150 years until settlements overrun by plunderers

Legislation has improved but signs of progress are thin on ground

Controversial cigarette tycoon and ex-president still wields influence

Widely spoken indigenous vernacular has problems around official adoption and online presence

Time wasted is time lost, says the Kresge Foundation as it makes a public pledge

Reform continues under Pope Francis with South American summit tackling shortage of clergy

Plans for asylum seekers come despite state department advice to ‘reconsider travel’ due to crime

Organization of American States voted to accept Venezuela’s US-backed alternative regime

White House threatens to use remittances from US as leverage in migration dispute

Farc declaration of war raises fears of a fresh outbreak of conflict

Colombia seeks $1bn in funds as UN aid appeal falls well short of target

As ‘slum priests’ try to fill the gap left by the state, the populist movement is on the rise again

From Chile to Bolivia, revolts against leaders from left and right have root causes in stagnant growth and weak investment

Marches come as discontent grows over labour reform, pensions and corruption

Protesters urge overhaul of system once lauded as the ‘Mercedes-Benz’ of retirement provision

With the exodus set to continue, the strains on Bogotá and other governments are set to intensify