Catherine O’Hara, actor known for Home Alone and Schitt’s Creek, dies aged 71
Actor, also known for Beetlejuice and her work with Christopher Guest, died after a brief illness
Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest
Dispiriting, deadly and unrevealing – there is a decent documentary to be made about the former model from Slovenia, but this one is unredeemable
Jayasree Kabir obituary
Actor who was a celebrated figure of Bangladeshi cinema after being discovered by the Indian director Satyajit Ray
Displacement Film Fund review – Cate Blanchett masterminds short film collection that brims with life and intensity
A set of shorts by film-makers from Afghanistan, Iran, Ukraine, Syria and Somalia are shocking, funny and mysterious in equal measure
First stills from Sam Mendes’ four-part Beatles film released in Liverpool
Postcards showing Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, Joseph Quinn and Barry Keoghan in character were printed as postcards and secreted around the performing arts school co-founded in the city by Paul McCartney
Groundbreaking director Reginald Hudlin: ‘It’s taken a lot of effort but the reward is always worth it’
The man who created House Party, wrote for the Black Panther comics, produced Django Unchained and briefly ran BET talks his illustrious career
Eggs, hats and unfettered ambition: what we learned about Melania Trump from her documentary
The first lady’s political goals, high-stakes clothes fittings and hints that she and Donald still have sex are just some of the highlights from Brett Ratner’s documentary
This isn’t the film you are looking for: the Star Wars franchise is hamstrung by a massive identity crisis
The space opera to end them all once blasted everything in its path. But a muddled approach has led to indecision and paralysis
Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù: ’If the west doesn’t say a film is good, that doesn’t mean it’s no good’
While it’s a love letter to a Lagos he has never actually lived in, the Gangs of London actor says his Cannes-conquering new film My Father’s Shadow has themes that will touch audiences all over the world, from Nigeria to Korea
One adult for the 9.40am in Sittingbourne: a front row seat for Melania’s ominous UK opening
Pilloried as a multimillion-dollar sweetener, Amazon’s Brett Ratner-directed portrait of the first lady has opened with a grand ‘black-carpet’ premiere in Washington and mysteriously empty cinemas around the planet
‘Begging my boyfriend to get one’: Paul Mescal inspires yet another fashion craze with Hamnet earring
The Night Manager’s Diego Calva and James Norton are also helping to build hype around small singular hoops
Reality winners: the rise and rise of the ‘verbatim’ movie
From Kaouther Ben Hania’s reconstruction of the killing of a five-year-old Gazan girl in The Voice of Hind Rajab to Ira Sachs use of a taped interview in Peter Hujar’s Day, real-life dialogue is being turned into drama
M3gan 2.0 to Ella McCay: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
The AI-led robot is back in a fun, Mission: Impossible style sequel, and Emma Mackey and Jamie Lee Curtis’s sharp-tongued comedy is a cause for celebration
‘Women hold our power in our orifices’: Kristen Stewart on her audacious feature directing debut
The Chronology of Water is a ‘punk rock ayahuasca trip’ of a film that takes no prisoners. Stewart and her star, Imogen Poots, talk about the passion and pain that fuelled it
Seized review – captivating documentary goes inside a shocking newspaper raid
The story of the Marion County Record and the forces that tried to destroy it is expanded for a charming, and concerning, look at freedom of the press