‘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

The Man I Love review – Rami Malek needs a lighter touch in Ira Sachs’ 80s Aids drama

Cannes film festival: Sachs’ film about an HIV-positive actor in the homophobic Reagan-era 80s is well-intended, but Malek’s mannered performance is hard to love

Michael Bay to direct film based on US military rescue mission in Iran

Director of Armageddon and Transformers to team up with Universal Pictures for drama based on recent events

Jeff Bezos calls Amazon’s $40m Melania film ‘a good business decision’

The Amazon founder has denied any personal involvement in the film, which failed to recoup its budget on release

Pedro Almodóvar says film-makers have a ‘moral duty’ to speak out against the far right

‘Europe must never be subjected to Trump’ says Spanish film-maker at a Cannes press conference for his new film, Bitter Christmas

The lesson from John Travolta’s dramatic new look: always dress for the job you want

The first-time director admitted he wore a beret to channel ‘old school’ auteurs at Cannes – though mimicry can only take you so far, says Guardian fashion and lifestyle editor Morwenna Ferrier

Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass review – furry foes out of their depth in candy-coated Chinese adventure

Cat and mouse are transported to a quasi-medieval China in this luridly bright animation that has none of the inventiveness of the Hanna-Barbera originals

The Balloonists review – divas and disasters in tale of first round-the-world hot-air balloon flight

Polite documentary about Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones, who faced off much wealthier rivals Richard Branson and Steve Fossett in the race to circumnavigate the globe

I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning review – sweet, sad portrait of gen Z discontent and disillusion

Cannes film festival: Clio Barnard’s absorbing tale depicts five friends who grew up together in Birmingham but now face divided destinies