1 in 2 review – compassionate film about dealing with bowel cancer is a personal plea on behalf of the young

David Wilkinson made this warm, generous documentary of his own treatment, and asks why so many much younger people are getting the same diagnosis

‘We did 10 takes of it!’ Kerr Smith on Dawson’s Creek and filming US TV’s first male gay kiss

As he releases a memoir, the actor opens up about the late James Van Der Beek, the magic of the Creek, and facing homophobia for playing gay in the 90s

‘Sadistic, forbidden pleasure’: why Gone Girl is my feelgood movie

The latest in our ongoing series of writers highlighting their go-to comfort films is a reminder of the dark joys that can be found in David Fincher’s devilish thriller

A Fox Under a Pink Moon review – Iranian teen refugee paints boldly imaginative self-portrait

Soraya Akhlaghi filmed her perilous flight from Iran and precarious new life over five years on her phone, reassembled here with yearning animations

100 Sunset review – elliptical, elusive drama moves dreamily through Toronto’s tight-knit Tibetan community

Kunsang Kyirong’s debut feature fades like a vapour trail in a mood of disorientation and dislocation

Look at Me by Dustin Hoffman review – an era-defining actor says his piece

At 89, the star of the Graduate and Rain Man demonstrates both brilliance and a startling lack of self-awareness

Robert Pattinson has auditioned for James Bond – and finally the 007 race is interesting

Hollywood’s weirdest man has entered the fray and the casting decision that has dragged on and on suddenly feels exciting for the first time

‘Thicky thicky dumb dumb’ satirist Cody Dahler on his viral videos: ‘my material is presented to me on a silver platter!’

The writer and podcaster on why politics is made to seem more complicated than it is and his mission to unpack world events for everyone

Godzilla Minus Zero takes US box office by storm in opening weekend

The foreign-language film topped the North American box office with $31.6m in takings, generating $63m worldwide

What are you yearning for? We took to the streets to find out

Longing for someone – or something – can be even more thrilling than getting what you want. That knowledge has inspired endless movies, but what do real people yearn for? We asked the question in Glasgow

Pickpockets review – small-budget Australian crime flick steals audience’s heart

DC Fairhurst and Lucy Green’s film could have been a by-the-numbers genre piece. Instead it is fun, frothy and refreshingly different

Bluey’s Daley Pearson on how losing his brother inspired his new film: ‘He was the best thing ever to me’

The first live-action film from Pearson’s Ludo Studio follows a man who met an alien as a kid – and becomes obsessed with bringing him back

Monica Dolan looks back: ‘I was repulsed by Rose West, yet I had to work out what made her tick’

The Bafta-winning actor on her toughest roles, teenage crushes, and the joy of finding her people at drama school

How African philosophies inspired a new approach to staging film festivals in Manchester

See My World, an event highlighting the pan-African thought via film, poetry and dance builds on momentum sparked by local activists and creatives

‘I’ve seen people in my neighbourhood pulled out of their cars’: Ava DuVernay on the cruelty and brutality of Trump’s America

Ten years after her landmark political documentary 13th, the film-maker delivers a follow-up on the 14th amendment – and the Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle birthright citizenship