‘I thought I was the saviour of the planet’: how Game of Thrones’ Hannah Murray found a wellness cult – and lost her mind

She landed a role in hit TV show Skins at 17 and went on to star in the fantasy epic. Then she was drawn towards a mysterious spiritual community. How did she end up being sectioned?

From The Mandalorian and Grogu to Dear England: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

The helmeted Star Wars hero and ‘baby Yoda’ get a big-screen adventure, while James Graham’s play about England boss Gareth Southgate comes to TV

French stars are rightly worried by billionaire Vincent Bolloré. Here’s how to rein him in

The conservative tycoon’s grip on media and cinema is unhealthy. An EU fund could protect democracy in perpetuity says Guardian Europe writer Alexander Hurst

Wuthering Heights director regrets not showing Margot Robbie’s ‘extremely hairy armpits’

Emerald Fennell says period-realistic scene emphasising Cathy’s lack of razors was shot but did not make final cut

The Birthday Party review – grimly compulsive unhappy occasion in deepest France

Cannes film festival: This could be better paced but the crisis which descends on an up-against-it dairy farm is delivered by some very memorable goons

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