Ebenezer review – Johnny Depp’s Scrooge tries to exorcise ghosts of business past

The latest film version of the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol is decent enough, though its star is rather better as the legendary miser before redemption arrives

‘Goats are good. They listen’: the herder who defeated Montenegro’s military – and can identify her cows’ herby burps

To Hold a Mountain tells the incredible story of a woman whose way of life was threatened when she heard her pastures were set to become a Nato training zone

NAZA: how and where to watch the Guardian’s acclaimed Gaza documentary

Film features testimony from 24 Israeli officials involved in surveillance and remote killing of Palestinian civilians

Adam and Joe on spoofing ‘Christopher No-Laughs’ with a toys’ Odyssey – and Patrick Stewart’s haunted house

Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish returned for a night on stage as packed with pop-culture pisstakes as the show that made them a 90s TV cult. Here’s what we learned

You can see everything on this list: the 20 most jaw-dropping documentaries – ranked!

Ahead of the UK release of Nathan Fielder’s hotly anticipated Elizabeth Holmes film, we count down the most shocking and affecting true stories ever committed to cinema

Victorian Psycho review – Maika Monroe has a blast in unsteady horror romp

The It Follows and Longlegs star tears into the role of a murderous governess in this hit-and-miss adaptation of Virginia Feito’s gory novel

Allen review – what would happen if ET came back for Elliott as an adult? Turns out nothing great

This good-natured if relentlessly unsubtle family film from Netflix and the studio behind Bluey relies on a cute alien with no personality

‘I trusted a lot of people, and the wrong people, and I shouldn’t have’: Charlotte Kirk on navigating Hollywood

The British actor took up writing and producing to have control over what she stars in after a scandal involving some of the most powerful men in the film business

You had me at LOL: some notes for the You’ve Got Mail reboot

Substackers in love, dodgy romance scams and Jeff Bezos as the dashing lead … the film-makers behind the remake of the dial-up classic will be facing an embarrassment of pitches

Grab the wigs – we’re going to the theatre! We meet the audience superfans going crazy for cosplay

Skeleton suits for Phantom of the Opera, garish wigs for Beetlejuice, a Don’t Tell Mama dress for Cabaret … our critic pulls on her cat ears and leotard to investigate a wild new craze

Veteran actor Irma P Hall, star of The Ladykillers, dies aged 91

Once a Dallas school teacher, Hall became a star in later life with roles in Soul Food and Collateral

Tyler Perry’s The Gospel of Christmas review – Netflix unloads more slapdash festive fare

Incompetent direction almost kills the Christmas spirit but American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino Taylor brings down the house

ITV to cut show budgets as UK TV and film production spend drops by more than £2bn

Broadcaster plans to make £30m in ‘temporary’ savings before inquiry into takeover by Sky

Stacy Keach obituary

Versatile American stage and screen actor whose roles ranged from Hamlet to the tough private eye Mike Hammer

How to Rob a Bank review – Amazon’s anti-capitalist caper is far from a riot

Nicholas Hoult, Anna Sawai and Pete Davidson play Robin Hood in this simple-minded and unexciting attempt to mix social commentary with action