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Martin Lister obituary

Other lives: Clear-thinking writer and professor of photography and new media

The Dreamed Adventure review – beautiful but opaque Bulgarian tale of digging up the past

Cannes film festival: Valeska Grisebach’s complex drama tracks an archaeologist whose mountain dig is interrupted by an old friend with rather dirtier hands

Coward review – soldiers find escapism and romance in wartime theatrical troupe

Cannes film festival: Lukas Dhont’s first world war-set gay romance is a heartfelt examination of cowardice and lives lived in secret amid the brutality of battle

Little glitz and underperforming auteurs: how Cannes 2026 went – and who will win

As this year’s Cannes ordinaire draws to a close, our chief critic examines what went wrong and predicts the who’ll take home the prizes – including the fabled Braddies

‘The days I had to have sex with randoms, I thought thank God!’ Jamie Bell on eye-popping drama Half Man

His starring role in Richard Gadd’s brutal toxic masculinity series is a far cry from his days as Billy Elliot. The actor opens up about gruelling shoots, dancing on toilets – and why he can’t ever just chill out

Why is Elon Musk so threatened by the casting of The Odyssey?

The world’s richest man can’t stop posting about how Lupita Nyong’o was chosen to play an imaginary woman

Digested week: memories of Covid resurface with hantavirus and Ebola news

Plus, John Travolta’s beret, Rachel Reeves reclaims basic civility and Judy Garland comes to east London

The Mandalorian and Grogu shows Star Wars is a cursed franchise – on the big screen at least

As a standalone, the new adventure is perfectly fine matinee fodder – but the galaxy is now so congested that we seem doomed to shiny retreads of the same old story

‘We’ve got 25 to 30% already shot’: sequel to Michael Jackson biopic on way, says studio

Lionsgate’s Adam Fogelson says there is ‘a ton of incredibly entertaining story’ still to tell, which may include unused footage shot for the first film

Boots Riley: ‘Theft is not outside of capitalism, it’s what it was built on’

The outspoken musician and film-maker talks I Love Boosters, his colorful follow-up to 2018 hit Sorry to Bother You, and the criticisms of his partnership with an Ellison

‘We needed a Hitler who really vibed with the dog’: meet Lexie, the world’s first cinemadographer

A new film, Blondi, takes audiences inside the Führer’s bunker in the final days of the Third Reich, from the point of view of his beloved dog

Is This Thing On? to Fuze: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Will Arnett uses standup comedy to tackle his midlife crisis in Bradley Cooper’s hilariously biting drama. Plus, the bookies’ favourites to be the next James Bond have a blast in a winning bomb disposal thriller

Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l’Échafaud review – harmonic openness for Louis Malle’s haunting noir thriller

The trumpeter’s improvised soundtrack for the new wave director’s 1957 film still glows with sensuality, tension and nocturnal beauty in this lavish reissue

Ladies First review – Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike come last in one-joke Netflix comedy

A misogynist is made to learn the error of his ways in this painfully dated and embarrassingly star-packed sexism comedy

End of the Rainbow review – Jinkx Monsoon’s Judy Garland could be the talk of the town

The Drag Race star brings nuance to the vocals and has a hoot with a frisky script but this bio-drama is too limited and ultimately cramps her style

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