From Alien: Romulus to Ugly Sisters: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
The luckless crew of space colonists go up against the meanest acid-blooded mother in deep space, while things start to heat up in Edinburgh for the fringe
Maurice Williams obituary
Singer and founder of the Zodiacs, whose songs were covered by the Hollies and Jackson Browne, and featured in Dirty Dancing and American Graffiti
Lone Star review – John Sayles’s powerful crime drama is an extraordinary relic of 90s film-making
Sayles’s 1996 film tackles racial division in Texas as a sheriff uncovers dark secrets about his home town and his father’s past
Ellis Park review – like its subject, Warren Ellis documentary moves to the beat of its own drum
Justin Kurzel’s film about the Bad Seeds and Dirty Three musician, and the animal sanctuary he founded in Indonesia with activist Femke den Haas, is richly cinematic
From brats to tradwives: why do we keep putting women into subcultures?
Trends offering different ideas of femininity are hard to escape online. Are they tongue-in-cheek fun, feminist, or actually doing women more harm than good?
Avatar, Tron, Fantastic Four and Star Wars: Disney rolls out raft of new films at fan event
The studio’s annual convention in Anaheim, California brought a blizzard of announcements for its most popular film series and franchises
From The Instigators to Bludfest: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
Matt Damon and Casey Affleck star in a breezy Bostonian crime caper, while Doncaster’s favourite goth-pop pup, Yungblud, stages his own festival
Jack Black says Tenacious D will return after Trump joke controversy
Black put comedy rock duo ‘on hold’ after Kyle Gass joked about assassination attempt
Sound clashes are a thrilling reggae tradition. Will AI ruin them?
The use of fake AI vocals – including those of Donald Trump – is sending shockwaves through this historic scene. At a Montego Bay clash, performers debate their culture’s future
‘We have to adapt or die’: Daniel Bedingfield says AI is music’s future
Exclusive: Gotta Get Thru This singer argues that ‘neo-luddites’ risk being left behind as technology develops
From Kensuke’s Kingdom to Justin Timberlake: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
Michael Morpurgo’s children’s adventure gets animated, while the pop R&B megastar rolls into the UK on his summer tour
Hit em: how a dream about raves, graves and slime led Matmos’s Drew Daniel to a new music genre
While Daniel slept, a girl introduced him to ‘super crunched-out sounds’ at a wild tempo. After he shared the details on X, producers are making his fantasies into reality
Britney Spears memoir The Woman in Me headed to the big screen
Universal has acquired the rights to the bestselling tell-all, with Wicked’s Jon M Chu set to direct
Welsh record label to digitise entire catalogue of 26,000 recordings
Sain, co-founded by singer Dafydd Iwan, begins painstaking process of preserving tracks to inspire future artists
Nigerian singer, actor and activist Onyeka Onwenu dies aged 72
Nicknamed the ‘Elegant Stallion’, the revered star died after performing at a private party in Lagos