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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

TV tonight: Emilia Clarke’s stylish, fun cold war thriller

Haley Lu Richardson, Adrian Lester and Harriet Walter also star in Ponies. Plus: inside the world’s biggest curry restaurant. Here’s what to watch this evening

‘I want to hit 100’: Derek Jacobi on Aids, ageing and failing to boil an egg

The giant of stage and screen is 87 and still hates looking in the mirror. At home with his husband, he talks about weeping, sleeping with Daniel Craig, terrifying directors and the joys of white wine and a nap

Lupita Nyong’o responds to rightwing criticism of The Odyssey: ‘Our cast is representative of the world’

The Oscar-winning actor’s role in the mythical drama has been attacked by Elon Musk and others on the far right

The Black Ball review – the complicated secrets of gay sexuality in Spain are brilliantly told

Cannes film festival: Threading together three stories from distinct eras of Spanish life, this narrative triptych is superlatively acted and beautifully shot

Passenger review – generic jumpscare horror offers bumpy journey to nowhere

A demonic entity attaches itself to travellers on the road in this competenelty directed but hopelessly indistinctive scare-free misfire

New Orleans prosecutors file formal battery charges against Shia LaBeouf

Prosecutors opt not to pursue hate-crime charges over February incident despite anti-gay slurs captured on video

‘I have a lot of rage inside me’: Bob Odenkirk on Saul, satire and his heart attack

He made his name as a conman, but now Bob Odenkirk is on the right side of the law in Normal. He answers your questions about Henry Winkler, Bruce Dern and Shakespeare

‘LA is not film friendly’: how Hollywood’s woes became a political cudgel in mayoral race

Troubled Baywatch reboot production echoes film-making woes in a city best known for its movie and TV industry

Finding Emily review – warm-hearted gen Z campus romcom is impossible to hate

A Mancunian singer-songwriter becomes a viral divisive figure while trying to track down a girl called Emily

Mick Jagger to play Josh O’Connor’s father in new film from Alice Rohrwacher

The Rolling Stone will play a lighthouse keeper in Three Incestuous Sisters, joining a cast including Dakota Johnson, Jessie Buckley and Saoirse Ronan

Eagles of the Republic review – seductive thriller of corruption and compromise in post-Mubarak Egypt

The third film in Tarik Saleh’s ‘Cairo trilogy’ is a about a washed-up movie star who is bullied into starring in government propaganda

Hen review – plucky chicken beats the odds in weirdly uplifting survival story

In a feat of cinematic mystery and skill György Pálfi coaxes a tour de force from his poultry cast in this parable of animal and human interrelations

Notre Salut review – a novelistic telling of day-to-day life in Nazi-occupied France

Cannes film festival: Swann Arlaud is excellent as Henri Marre, the director’s great-grandfather, as he finagles his way into a job at the Vichy ministry of labour

Diabolic review – Mormon-country horror takes ayahuasca down to the creepy cellar

Underground doors and regression therapy – it sounds like a can’t miss for the genre, but the knockout blow is never delivered

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