Couture review – Angelina Jolie is the wrong fit for inert fashion drama

The Oscar winner is adrift in Alice Winocour’s uninvolving film, premiering in Toronto, about three thinly written women involved in Paris fashion week show

Hollywood tycoon poised to swoop on Secret Cinema owner

Exclusive: Ari Emanuel, whose entertainment agency owns UFC and WWE, looks to buy TodayTix Group

Lesbian Space Princess review – A fizzy animated film with loads of laughs and a lot of heart

This award-winning Australian feature mixes madcap comedy with a who’s who of queer performers to produce a magical, joyful gem

Israeli film industry calls boycott pledge ‘deeply troubling’

Screenwriters’ guild of Israel says campaign that has now won backing from 1,800 actors, directors and other professionals will only ‘deepen the darkness’

Nuns vs the Vatican: documentary alleges sexual abuse and misconduct in the Catholic church

A new film, premiering at the Toronto film festival, follows women who claim to have been abused by a former Jesuit priest

From Ground Zero: Stories From Gaza review – scenes of ordinary life in extremis

This heartbreaking collection of short films mentions neither ‘Israel’ nor ‘Hamas’, instead offering a mosaic of everyday living under nonstop attack

Michael Caine comes out of retirement (again) for Vin Diesel sequel

The veteran actor will be reprising his role as a priest who helps Diesel’s immortal warrior stop the plague in The Last Witch Hunter 2

Stuart Craig, Oscar-winning production designer on The English Patient and Harry Potter, dies aged 83

In a glittering career spanning more than four decades his vision contributed to some of the most memorable worlds in cinematic history

‘It’s so different from the media narrative’: telling a different story of 7 October

Brandon Kramer’s documentary Holding Liat follows an Israeli family torn apart by the Hamas attacks, but clinging to hopes of reconciliation

The Christophers review – Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel spar in smart Soderbergh original

The actors play off each other beautifully in an intimate London-set comedy drama about art, commerce and the mess in-between

Brave the Dark review – delinquent teen drama comes off as if James Dean met Mr Chips

Warmly drawn melodrama based on a true story follows a delinquent teen taken under the wing of his kindly drama teacher

To Be Frank review – Fun Lovin’ Criminal drummer offers up life lessons from many irons in fire

Documentary portrait of musician’s varied career is engaging if a little too easy in its admiration for its subject

Dust to Dreams review – a baffling short film from director Idris Elba

The actor recruits Seal for a Lagos-set 19-minute misfire that inelegantly stuffs in far too much

‘Most important, most beautiful, most musical’: Bagpuss set for big screen return

Stop-motion animation voted the UK’s all-time favourite kids’ show will be rebooted with the ‘saggy old cloth cat’ now busy mending in modern Britain

Actors and directors pledge not to work with Israeli film groups ‘implicated in genocide’

Exclusive: Hundreds of film workers join new boycott initiative criticized by Israeli producers’ group as ‘misguided’