Original body model of ET expected to fetch up to $1m at Sotheby’s

Daughter of Oscar-winning special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi hopes item will ‘continue to inspire’

JK Rowling appears to criticise Harry Potter’s three stars amid feud

In response to a social media post asking who ‘ruins a movie for you’, the author alluded to Radcliffe, Watson and Grint, with whom she has fallen out over trans rights

‘I’d feel stifled by that’: Gwyneth Paltrow told intimacy coordinator to ‘step back’ on new film with Timothée Chalamet

The actor, who shares a number of sex scenes with co-star Chalamet in new film Marty Supreme, said ‘I’m from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera’s on’

The Alto Knights review – double De Niro makes for a laborious true-story mafioso movie

The actor plays Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, two warring mob bosses in 1950s New York, in a caper that lacks the richness of its writer’s earlier Goodfellas

Rachel Zegler says West Side Story executives repeatedly asked her to prove Latina heritage

The Snow White actor, whose mother is Colombian-American, said ‘when I was in the running for María, they kept calling to ask if I was legit’

‘He threw body piercing parties and lay on a bed of nails’: the wild life of body modification guru Fakir Musafar

A new documentary explores how the pioneer of the ‘modern primitive’ subculture used painful BDSM practices to access new spiritual planes – outraging conventional society

The Thinking Game review – DeepMind study offers wide-lens view of our tech lords and AGI

Director Greg Kohs uses every tool in the editing palette to explain how Artificial General Intelligence (as differentiated from Artificial Intelligence) works

Your feelgood movies: which comfort films would you recommend?

As our writers continue to highlight their go-to mood-lifting films, we’d like to hear about your picks

Brief History of a Family review – mysterious interloper at centre of exquisitely constructed drama

Lin Jianjie’s remarkable debut feature keeps you guessing to the final scene – a thrilling film directed and performed immaculately

Gal Gadot’s Walk of Fame ceremony disrupted by political protesters

Police and protesters clashed at Hollywood ceremony for Israeli Wonder Woman star who has been vocal in support

Guardian writers on their ultimate feelgood movies: ‘Keeps me optimistic’

Our writers highlight the films they find endlessly rewatchable, including Notting Hill, The Wedding Singer and Mamma Mia!

Star Wars: Visions – finally, a spin-off that lives up to the original

In a franchise filled with convoluted additions, this animated anthology feels closest to the pulpy wonder of George Lucas’s first films

‘I aggressed you’: Jonathan Majors reportedly admits to assault in audio recording

Actor known for his Creed III and Marvel roles seemingly confirms strangling his ex-girlfriend in recording

The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru review – British wartime tragedy told with potent empathy

This enthralling Chinese documentary about the torpedoing of a Japanese freighter carrying 1,816 British PoWs in the second world war excavates the emotional wreckage on all sides

Bloody Axe Wound review – keep-it-in-the-family serial-killer horror is gorily absurd

The daughter of a masked killer is keen to follow her father into slaughtering local popular teenagers, but there’s a problem: it’s just not silly enough