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Northern Soul: Still Burning review – thumping celebration of the legendary underground club scene

Centred around the Wigan Casino and its amphetamine-fuelled all-nighters, this is a passionate portrait of a unique cultural moment and its obsessive high-kicking fans

Killer Whale review – watery peril horror turns captive orca into angry BFF-threatener

When two BBFs on vacay decide to break into a water park with a dishy guy, there are a limited number of jump scares waiting for them

Rush hour on Air Force one as Melania director Brett Ratner joins Trump China trip

Filmmaker who was long on the outer in Hollywood over #MeToo allegations will scout locations for Rush Hour 4, according to spokeswoman

Cannes is a beautiful, gruelling circus. I wouldn’t quit it for anything

The festival is a celebration of cinema and a frantic trade show all at once. After 25 years, I can’t help but go back, says critic Agnès Poirier

The Electric Kiss review – belle époque seance comedy struggles to summon real magic

Cannes film festival: Pierre Salvadori’s whimsical period farce about a fake medium and a grief-stricken painter has charm and elegance, but its romantic fantasy never quite ignites

Film industry cannot fight rise of artificial intelligence, says Demi Moore

US actor urges her peers to work with the technology, but stresses it can never replace ‘true art’ created by humans

French film industry at risk from the far right, say actors and directors

Juliette Binoche joins 600 leading figures to warn against a ‘fascist takeover of the collective imagination’

Tomorrow, When the War Began: a film made in a lab for 2010s Australian teens

It has heart-throbs and a classic soundtrack, but the true resonance of this John Marsden adaptation is its portrayal of growing up in a world rapidly destroyed before your eyes

Matching Gary Oldman’s Krapp with a teenager’s take on Godot is a masterstroke

The Royal Court is presenting the Slow Horses star’s version of one Beckett masterpiece alongside 19-year-old Leo Simpe-Asante’s riff on another. They combine beautifully

‘He’s inspired generations’: Stormzy to produce biopic about football great Ian Wright

The Crystal Palace, Arsenal and England striker says his life story – now in development with the rapper’s Merky Films – has ‘hard-hitting moments, but in the end I want it to give people hope and joy’

Chasing Utopia review – renegade Google exec Mo Gawdat searches for ethical AI in alarming insider warning

Delivering much information about the scale of what’s coming, documentary also follows Gawdat’s campaign to get the programs with empathy

Nobu review – story of obsession and loss that lies behind the luxury sushi empire

This affectionate portrait of chef Nobuyuki Matsuhisa finds surprising emotional depth beneath the glossy surface of the Nobu brand – with a cameo from Robert De Niro

Paying in sweat! How Debbie Allen went from stardom in Fame to conquer Hollywood

She played the world’s coolest dance teacher and has had big success as an actor, director and choreographer, winning a Golden Globe, Emmys and an Olivier. Now, she is back on Broadway. She discusses Trump, the Kennedy Center and where the US goes next

Ciao UFO review – Hong Kong tear-jerker is less ET than time-hopping chronicle of housing estate kids

In 1985, four working-class characters are bonded for ever by a strange sighting in this sentimental saga that tracks their lives into adulthood

Sunset Boulevard: The Backstage Cut review – does Norma Desmond really need another closeup?

Aside from a brief pre-shoot ‘discussion’, this take on Billy Wilder’s classic 1950 film has little to offer – despite some fine performances

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