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
George Clooney condemns Washington shooting and calls on citizens to ‘truly make America great again’
Star tells awards ceremony: ‘I disagree with everything that this administration stands for, but there’s no place for the kind of violence we saw two nights ago’
Wild Foxes review – animal-obsessed fighter at elite sports academy wonders if more to life than boxing
Valéry Carnoy’s striking film brims with unsynchronised ideas and images, but the physicality and performances of the young cast are undeniable
‘The folk scene is very middle class. The divide is huge’: Jim Ghedi, the Sheffield singer bringing his doomy music to the movies
Plucked from relative obscurity to score Hugh Jackman film The Death of Robin Hood, the skilled singer-songwriter explains how he conquered his impostor syndrome
I’ve Seen All I Need to See review – murky indie thriller follows woman home after her sister is murdered
An actor returns after the death of a family member, but there’s not much more of depth in this noirish tale with a painfully pretentious voiceover
‘An uprising against loneliness’: why have football ultras become a cultural obsession?
A new documentary travels around the world to identify the roots of ultra-mania – the fan movement that’s part progressive and sometimes criminal
The Return of Arinzo review – families who hate each other clash in noirish Nollywood thriller
Nigerian actor and director Iyabo Ojo’s entertaining but imperfect tale about warring clans unfolds across Nigeria, Ghana and Tanzania
The Sheep Detectives review – Hugh Jackman gives a flock in baa-rking mad cosy crime caper
Jackman plays the farmer in this Babe-style feelgood family film about plucky sheep who help solve a murder
Michael might be a cowardly, cursed biopic but his fans are happy to live in a fantasy
The hit success of the critically reviled Michael Jackson movie shows that his fans only want to see the good – not the truth
‘Omar, what the hell are you doing in Chichester?’: when Doctor Zhivago star Sharif came to Sussex
Hannah Khalil’s new play sprang from her surprise at seeing the great Egyptian actor had performed at the Festival theatre in the 1980s. She explains how it entwined with a story of her mixed-heritage identity
Brute 1976 review – throwback slasher summons up spirit of Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Aiming to subvert the all-American exploitation film with progressive comment and a touch of diversity, this horror soon reverts to hokey tropes and carnage
The Eukrainian review – heroic portrait of the diplomat trying to haul Ukraine into Europe
Viktor Nordenskiöld’s film follows Ukraine’s deputy minister Olha Stefanishyna as she negotiates her country’s path into the EU, but lacks some of the rigour needed
‘Bursts off the screen’: why Tombstone is my feelgood movie
The latest in our series of writers drawing attention to their most rewatched comfort films is a celebration of an easily quotable western
The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder review – excavating the memories of civil war in Mozambique
Inadelso Cossa’s documentary grapples with the trauma left by the conflict through witness that wavers between real and imagined truths