Charles Strouse, Tony award-winning composer of Annie, dies aged 96
Over the course of an illustrious career, Strouse composed music for Broadway shows such as Bye Bye Birdie and Applause but was best known for Annie’s evergreen songs
James Gunn’s new Superman is more human than alien god – but can he still inspire awe?
Far from 1978’s morally noble colossus, Gunn’s Man of Steel is a flawed being – but perhaps he can allow us to hope for a better world
Show me the tummy! Tom Cruise doesn’t need sleep, help or clothes in Mission: Impossible
The Hollywood icon defies age and Arctic climes to save the world in the epic messianic spectacle The Final Reckoning. But why won’t he bare his soul?
‘Men run away from vulnerability’: The Weeknd on blinding success, panic attacks and why The Idol was ‘half-baked’
Abel Tesfaye is arguably the world’s biggest pop star – so why is he thinking of wrapping up the Weeknd? As he releases soul-baring film Hurry Up Tomorrow, he charts his path through drugs, heartbreak and abandonment
Hurry Up Tomorrow review – The Weeknd’s meta-thriller plays like a music video
Visually effective yet narratively meandering, the star’s moody psycho-thriller-cum-therapy-session is a missed opportunity
How the world of work has lured Barbie out of high heels
Scientific study of 3,000 dolls down the decades shows most now wear flats
Dossier 137 review – tense gilets-jaunes thriller divides cop’s loyalties over police brutality
A taut, charged procedural from Dominik Moll follows a conflicted officer investigating a teenage protester’s injuries
Morris the alligator, known for Happy Gilmore and other films, dies around age 80
Famous reptile had a memorable scene in the 1996 comedy with Adam Sandler, along with other movies and TV shows
The 20 best US remakes of foreign language films – ranked!
As Spike Lee’s neo-noir crime thriller Highest 2 Lowest debuts at Cannes film festival, we index the most ravishing Hollywood redos of all time
Joe Don Baker, tough-guy actor from Walking Tall and Bond films, dies aged 89
The prolific performer played varied roles – from arms dealer to baseball star – and made the rare switch from Bond villain to Bond good guy
‘We have to stop what’s going on, it’s insane’: Robert De Niro on battling age, apathy and Trump
As the actor receives an honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes film festival, he talks about why he couldn’t look at himself if he didn’t speak out about the US president and politics
Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa decries ‘nightmare’ of Putin-Trump alliance
In Cannes to promote his Stalinist drama Two Prosecutors, the film-maker said he feared the US and Russia would soon ‘become equal’
Two Prosecutors review – a petrifying portrait of Stalinist insurrection
Drawn from a suppressed story by gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, Sergei Loznitsa’s haunting film unravels a terrifying parable of bureaucratic evil
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning review – world-saving Tom Cruise signs off with wildly entertaining adventure
Cruise does things his way in this eighth and last Mission: Impossible, as his maverick agent Ethan Hunt takes on the ultimate in AI evil
‘We need to do something’: the company releasing Palestinian films no one else will
As many films struggle to find distribution, Watermelon Pictures has stepped in to help tell stories from Palestine and other marginalized communities