Warner Bros Discovery weighs new sale talks after fresh Paramount offer
Board considering whether to re-engage in move that could prompt a second bidding war with Netflix
Collective Monologue review – sensuous zoo study foregrounds contacts between keepers and creatures
Jessica Sarah Rinland’s documentary examines how humans and animals interact in the confines of captivity, but leaves some questions unexplored
TikTok creator ByteDance vows to curb AI video tool after Disney threat
Videos created by new Seedance 2.0 generator go viral, including one of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting
‘A permanent civil war in the body’: how fighting cancer helped an artist understand his Soviet youth
A rare lymphoma diagnosis meant Giorgi Gagoshidze had to abandon a film project on the economic factors behind the USSR’s collapse – until he found new meaning in medical terminology
Gangsterism review – dense, high-minded cine-manifesto on the notion of auteurism
Canadian experimentalist Isiah Medina’s latest flits between radical and grandiloquent, but deserves close reading and exasperated sighs in equal measure
Grim reapers: what has fertilised the rich new wave of neo-rural cinema?
The Shepherd and the Bear is part of a new breed of films with a sympathy for country matters that has moved on from othering folk-horror
‘The goal has been to demystify’: how a colonial Nairobi library was restored and given back to the people
Once a whites-only enclave, the grand McMillan Memorial library is one of three in the Kenyan capital that have been transformed for the community
Wuthering Heights rakes in $77m at global box office on opening weekend
Emerald Fennell’s divisive film is the year’s biggest opening so far, having recouped its entire estimated production budget over the opening weekend
Rosebush Pruning review – dysfunctional rich family move in strange circles
Jamie Bell and Elle Fanning lead a starry cast in this clumsy satire that provides little fascination in a wealthy family’s suffocating lives
Nightborn review – Rupert Grint bringing up a monster baby
Dark forces give new parents more than they bargained with in this unsubtle Finnish horror from Hanna Bergholm
The Education of Jane Cumming review – sexuality, race and a real school scandal
Sophie Heldman’s drama about two teachers accused of lesbianism by a pupil is exhilaratingly candid
Bud Cort obituary
American actor who starred in the 1971 dark comedy film Harold and Maude that later became a cult classic
Berlin film festival defends Wim Wenders after Arundhati Roy attacked ‘jaw-dropping’ comments
Berlinale head says artists should not be pushed into soundbites after author quit over president’s remarks that film-makers should ‘stay out of politics’
‘Every role I do, I’m going to be a Black man first’: David Jonsson on winning Baftas, rebooting Alien and leaving TV’s hottest show
He went from being the east London boy who was expelled from school to becoming the Bafta award‑winning star of Alien: Romulus. Ahead of his prison drama Wasteman, David Jonsson discusses the pressures of being a leading Black British actor
Animol review – gritty young offenders drama challenges conventional machismo
Institutional menace and an idealistic take on redemption sit side-by-side in Top Boy actor Ashley Walters’ empathic and occasionally over-earnest film