Karla Sofía Gascón says she is ‘less racist than Gandhi’ on return to public eye

Actor suggests she may have been intentionally smeared and says ‘no one has to forgive me’ after recent controversy

Tom Cruise to receive BFI fellowship: ‘I’ve been making films in the UK for 40 years and have no plans to stop’

Speaking about the award, the American actor, one of the highest-grossing stars of all time, praised the UK’s ‘incredibly talented’ film industry and ‘stunning locations’

First trailer arrives for Paul Thomas Anderson’s collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio

One Battle After Another is inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s experimental postmodern novel Vineland and will also feature Benicio Del Toro, Alana Haim and Sean Penn

Santa Fe clinic says Gene Hackman’s wife called them the day after police say she died

The county sheriff’s office have confirmed that Betsy Arakawa made the phone call on 12 February disproving their initial belief that she had died a day earlier

Keira Knightley at 40: her 20 best films – ranked!

Ahead of her 40th birthday next week, we look back over the 25-year big-screen career of the Oscar-nominated actor, from Atonement to Love Actually, Pride & Prejudice to Star Wars

Flow review – Oscar-winning animation is a beautiful and painterly animal adventure

The wordless aftermath of a global catastrophe sees a cat team up with other creatures in tremendously imagined apocalyptic vision

Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other review – compelling portrait of a passionate marriage

From serious injury and coping with different levels of fame to resentment and ping-pong – a powerful insight into a life shared by two charismatic creatives

Ne Zha 2 review – record-breaking animation is tale of demons, dragons and dazzling visuals

Self-taught animator Jiaozi brings his sublime artistry to this pageant of Chinese mythology that has stormed the box office

‘Never fails to make my day’: readers on their feelgood movies

As Guardian writers continue to share their go-to comfort films, we asked for your picks, which range from a ghostly sports drama to a Hitchcock thriller

When Autumn Falls review – François Ozon’s diverting mystery of tricky family dynamics

Ozon’s drama mixes implied horror with sentimentality as it examines dangerous secrets and the disastrous ramifications of an (accidental?) poisoning

Only known script of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless to be auctioned online

About 70 pages of director’s handwritten notes for the New Wave classic were found after more than 60 years

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’

Snow White review – Disney’s exhaustingly awful reboot axes the prince and makes the dwarves mo-cap

With tiresome pseudo-progressive additions that tie the whole thing in knots, this is a waste of estimable entertainers like Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot

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’