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How to Have Sex to Spinal Tap II: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

A fraught drama about a gang of teenagers on a party island. Plus, turn it up to 11 – the legendary rockers are back!

Swapped review – animated Netflix adventure plays like off-brand Pixar

Michael B Jordan and Juno Temple voice indistinctive body-swap caper for kids with muddled empathy message

As a schoolboy, I was dazzled by the Festival of Britain – but it revealed a divided nation

From the Dome of Discovery to the massive cigar-shaped Skylon, the spectacular cultural showcase was an exhilarating sight in 1951. The Tories demolished those prime exhibits yet, 75 years on, it has a significant legacy

The devil wears Primark: is the romcom reporter about to get the sack?

Glamour? Money? Hope? They’re so last season. With fashion magazines on their knees, where does that leave The Devil Wears Prada 2 – and its famously relatable heroine?

Original Blair Witch team added to reboot after voicing outrage

A new reboot of the 1999 horror hit will feature two of the original stars and the directing team as executive producers

‘A profound depiction’: Michael Jackson fans support divisive biopic as film smashes records

The long-delayed film has fans dancing in the aisles and has taken more than $200m at the box office

The Purge but for sex? One Night Only might be the year’s strangest romcom

A new trailer depicts a normal meet-cute before setting it on the one night a year when single people can legally have sex

Mass review – forgiveness doesn’t come easily in masterly school-shooter drama

Two couples, both of whom have lost sons, meet in Fran Kranz’s unflinching look at restorative justice

Say hello to my little compendium! Al Pacino films – ranked

As the actor turns 86, we rate his greatest screen performances and ask which Godfather was the best of the trilogy

‘They’re as lost and inauthentic as us’: the Oscar winner who made a Farage satire – and released it on WeTransfer

In 2022, Aneil Karia won an Academy Award for his short starring Riz Ahmed. Now, he’s skewering Reform-style parliamentary candidates with the help of Jack Lowden and an unlikely online platform

Highlander review – dodgy accents no trouble to exciting, epic and unashamedly fun 80s blockbuster

Preposterous time-romp, starring Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery, is highly enjoyable if you’re prepared to meet it on its own terms

‘What we’re doing is real justice’: how one New York gym built a pipeline away from prison

Debra Granik’s five-hour documentary shows a former drug dealer turned entrepreneur striving to beat a system that continues to punish those that have served time

Creaky knees be damned – Charlize Theron is showing us what’s possible at 50

Her new film, Apex, may not be Citizen Kane, but how refreshing to see a middle-aged actor as a female action hero, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Di’Anno – Iron Maiden’s Lost Singer review – metal act’s original singer is a tough act to follow

This entertaining profile of Paul Di’Anno – the heavy metal band’s lead vocalist from 1978 to 1981 – is dragged down by its subject’s irascible nature

Hokum review – Adam Scott dour and grumpy in enjoyably eerie rural horror

A writer’s retreat to the remote Irish hotel in which his parents spent their honeymoon brings him face-to-face with all manner of creepy goings-on in a gruesome and eccentric black-comic shocker

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