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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

The Devil Wears Prada 2 review – a sequel? For spring? Groundbreaking

The fashion and magazine industries have had a makeover but this glossy knock-off reunites the old team – and recycles the old plot – with style

Anne Hathaway says she didn’t get any size-zero models fired from The Devil Wears Prada 2

The actor responds to claims she pushed for ultra-thin models to be dropped from the sequel, saying ‘nobody lost their jobs’ and the move instead created more roles

‘A false narrative around a paedophile’: Michael Jackson biopic criticised by Leaving Neverland director

Dan Reed says the film recasts abuse allegations as lies and sidesteps Jackson’s relationships with children

Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC review – fascinating star-studded concert film

Footage from John Lennon’s only full-length performances after the Beatles – at Madison Square Garden, for charity, with the Plastic Ono Band – has been edited and restored

Keira Knightley returns to West End in adaptation of Oscar winner The Lives of Others

Stephen Dillane and Bridgerton’s Luke Thompson set to co-star in Robert Icke’s production based on the German film this autumn

Ada: My Mother the Architect review – illuminating profile of brilliant builder balances work and family

Film-maker Yael Melamede presents a fascinating, if inevitably slightly indulgent, account of the revered Israeli designer’s life and work

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Tears of the Azure Sea review – hectic anime lives again

There is less daffy humour in this sequel than in the 2023 original, but some sublime animation

Sam Neill announces he is cancer-free after taking part in Australian clinical trial: ‘I’m very, very excited’

Jurassic Park actor is advocating for CAR T-cell therapy, which he underwent as part of a clinical trial, to be rolled out for blood cancer patients across Australia

Wolfram review – Warwick Thornton’s sequel to Sweet Country never quite comes together

Set four years after Thornton’s blistering neo-western, this film is impressively atmospheric and has strong performances, though Deborah Mailman is criminally underused

People aged 18-29: tell us about your cinema going habits

We would like to hear from younger people about how often they go to the cinema

Boom! A melodrama fit for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s doomed love affair

A dying glamour puss falls for her parasitic houseguest in Joseph Losey’s 1968 fever dream that earns its exclamation mark

Deborah Mailman: ‘There’s almost a permission now – people can just be incredibly cruel and racist’

The actor, who reunites with Warwick Thornton in his frontier western Wolfram, reflects on her late parents, the failed voice referendum and her obsession with space

Michael smashes UK records for biggest biopic opening

Michael Jackson biopic debuted with £11.6m at the UK box office – almost double achieved by next-best Bohemian Rhapsody

Touch Me review – tentacle sex abounds in psychosexual horror that’s like live-action hentai

Addison Heimann’s stylised alien horror is as zippily amusing as it is sensual, with more than a bit of Rocky Horror in the mix

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  • Not a Pretty Picture review – Martha Coolidge’s recreation of her rape remains shockingly powerful
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  • Comcast to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky into separate media business
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  • I’m a psychiatrist who was terrified of horror films – until I learned about ‘cinematic neurosis’

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