A high school singing audition inspired by Flashdance haunted me for years – until I found my voice again

My singing voice is rarely tested, except for the occasional Happy Birthday. But a music festival choir singalong changed everything

Dominic Sessa and Antonio Banderas to lead Anthony Bourdain biopic

The Holdovers breakout and Oscar nominee will head the cast of Tony, which will follow the food world legend in 1976

Lena Dunham and Carly Rae Jepsen to bring 10 Things I Hate About You to Broadway

The 1999 teen hit is set to become a Broadway musical with the Girls creator and pop singer-songwriter teaming up

The holy screen: a brief history of popes on film and TV, from Peter O’Toole to Robbie Coltrane

Jonathan Pryce was humorous, O’Toole capricious, Liv Ullman secretly female and Jude Law memorably Speedo-clad – onscreen pontiffs have come in all forms

Raphael’s School of Athens review – rewarding study of Renaissance fresco

During the latest in Howard Burton’s Masterpiece series, the art historian turns his low-tech but scholarly attention to Raphael’s interior decoration in the Vatican palace

Former child actor Sophie Nyweide dies aged 24

Nyweide began her career aged just six in Bella and went on to work on films including And Then Came Love, Margot at the Wedding and Noah

Conclave viewership rose 283% on day of Pope Francis’s death

Ralph Fiennes was Oscar-nominated for his role in the thriller which follows cardinals wrangling to replace a fictional pontiff after his death

‘Where is the adult?’: how Leonardo Van Dijl filmed the story of a child tennis star’s abuse

Julie Keeps Quiet casts real-life tennis ace Tessa Van den Broeck as a teenage player facing peril ignored by adults. The director explains how telling the story well required a care the sport itself neglects

Wind, Tide & Oar review – a love letter to the good old fashioned art of sailing

This contemplative documentary is a feast for the ears and the eyes, its gorgeous imagery giving Turner a run for his money

‘Death to streamers!’: can a New York video store start a revolution?

Despite the ongoing Netflix era, Brooklyn’s Night Owl Video hopes formats such as VHS, DVD and Blu-ray will see a vinyl-like revival

Tendaberry review – dreamlike drama of a young woman alone in New York

Real residents and the city itself also star in Haley Elizabeth Anderson’s impressive feature debut, filled with beautifully curated images in 4K, Super 8 and analogue

An Army of Women review – shocking story of sex-assault survivors’ fight for justice

Julie Lunde Lillesæter’s timely documentary tells the story of the courageous women whose cases of sexual assault and rape have gone unheard by the US judicial system

‘The devil wants this pattern of mass death repeated’: Actors Guild of Nigeria calls for better regulation after two actors die

After two actors died in Owerri, Imo State, AGN head Emeka Rollas drew comparisons to events last year, when popular Nollywood actor Junior Pope drowned

Mountainhead: first trailer for Jesse Armstrong’s topical Succession follow-up

Billionaires, starring Steve Carell and Ramy Youssef, meet amid an international crisis in HBO’s of-the-moment satire

‘I still don’t know what it’s about’: Buckaroo Banzai, the surreal 80s flop that became a cult classic

Starring Peter Weller as a gunslinging brain surgeon alongside Jeff Goldblum and John Lithgow, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is a weird time