Michael Pennington, Shakespeare and Star Wars actor, dies aged 82
‘Brilliant, wise’ co-founder of English Shakespeare Company celebrated for roles including Macbeth and Mercutio
‘Using his Terminator voice, Arnie said: “Your song. Give it to me. Now”’: George Thorogood on Bad to the Bone
‘There was a lot of fighting and drinking at our shows. We played for bikers, for Hell’s Angels. We would break records for beer sales everywhere we played’
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo review – haunting queer fable burns with love and menace
Diego Céspedes’s striking debut mixes magic realism and melodrama in a tender tale of an LGBTQ+ community facing fear and superstition in 1980s Chile
‘Bad people’: Alan Cumming criticises Bafta after N-word outburst
The host of the film awards ceremony at which Tourette syndrome activist John Davidson shouted a racial slur has said he won’t host it again
Killer on the Air review – radio call-in hostage thriller puts moral dilemma to tough-love show host
An aggrieved caller puts the host of Sarah Cares to the test, examining the limits of her ideas by threatening to kill her husband’s lover
‘I told him, “Go ahead, do it”’: Juliette Binoche on how a strangling attack as a teen inspired her directorial debut
After four decades reigning the international arthouse, the French actor steps into bracingly raw territory with new documentary In-I In Motion
‘Treats its audience like adults’: why Moneyball is my feelgood movie
The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their favourite comfort films is an ode to Brad Pitt and Aaron Sorkin’s lovably human baseball drama
Queer as Punk review – joyous portrait of Malaysian LGBTQ+ rebels making noise
Yihwen Chen’s warm and galvanising documentary follows queer punk band Shh…Diam! as they battle discrimination with humour and raw energy
My Father’s Diaries review – haunting home-video excavates trauma of Srebrenica massacre
Ado Hasanović’s moving documentary transforms footage filmed during the Bosnian war into a devastating portrait of memory, survival and inherited grief
‘Forced to preserve a monument’: how the fate of Marilyn Monroe’s LA home became a legal saga
House where Monroe died, which hasn’t been occupied in seven years, is in limbo after current owners wanted to demolish it but were stopped by a public campaign
‘Amazon of America’: film paints vision of a post-coup Brazil giving up rainforest
Vitória Régia imagines rightwing Bolsonaro plot succeeded with US help – and highlights threats facing Indigenous peoples
Bafta doubles down on preparations for Sunday TV awards after N-word fallout
Ceremony organisers taking event procedures ‘extremely seriously’ after broadcast of racial slur in February
Are you a ‘time optimist’? I’m sorry, we can’t be friends
Are you late so often that it’s become your entire personality? Just know this: you are the worst, writes Polly Hudson
‘Peak TV is behind us’: UK developers pivot from building studios to datacentres amid AI boom
Ambitious plans are being scaled back – but film and TV industry point to big existing investments in British production
Joseph Fiennes on parenting, politics and banning children from social media: ‘Stand up, Keir, this is your kids’ generation’
He’s played English titans from William Shakespeare to Gareth Southgate, but what does the actor really think about the country today?