‘It’s supposed to be intense’: inside the experimental film that ‘truly captures’ autism

It stars a roaming shapeshifter – and a cat-faced soldier fighting a zombie in a swamp. We go behind the scenes of The Stimming Pool, the first ever feature film to be made by a group of autistic directors

O’Dessa review – clumsy sci-fi musical is a rocky road to nowhere

Sadie Sink, Kelvin Harrison Jr and Regina Hall are all left adrift in this messy attempt to mash genres

Friendship review – Tim Robinson spirals in a darkly hilarious comedy

The star of I Think You Should Leave brings a similar brand of comedy to this strange and genuinely funny film about a friendship breakup

‘Carers need care, too’: Bruce Willis’s wife speaks out after deaths of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa

Emma Heming Willis, who is primary carer for the actor since his dementia diagnosis in 2023, says there is ‘a broader story’ to tell about their plight

In the Lost Lands review – not much to find in pointless science-fantasy

George RR Martin story flabbily retold in a dreary postapocalypse where Milla Jovovich has few spells to cast as a witch for hire

‘I’m all for strange’: Sister Midnight’s Karan Kandhari on his punk rock debut, two decades in the making

The director talks about his genre-trampling film Sister Midnight, the hilarious and gory story of a female force of nature stifled in an arranged marriage

Sister Midnight review – Mumbai-set comic horror finds the terror in arranged marriage

Radhika Apte is terrific as a woman preparing to settle down with a shiftless husband she barely knows when her world goes awry

‘I never thought about Oscars’: Brutalist composer Daniel Blumberg on the happiness and horror of his big win

The defiantly anti-commercial musician had walked away from mainstream success twice by his early 20s. Will his Academy Award convince him to embrace Hollywood, celebrity, the big bucks?

The Rule of Jenny Pen review – John Lithgow pulls the strings in care home horror

Geoffrey Rush’s retired judge is terrorised by Lithgow’s therapy puppet-wielding fellow resident in this claustrophobic tale of elder-on-elder abuse

A Touch of Love review – Margaret Drabble’s single-mother drama is a vivid 60s time capsule

This Drabble adaptation about a PhD student who gets pregnant is kitchen-sinky but without humour or even awareness. It’s an interesting curio

Tim Miller obituary

Other lives: Film-maker who became a probation officer and helped start Centrepoint and Private Eye

The Rivals of Amziah King review – Matthew McConaughey returns with unwieldy misstep

The Oscar-winner’s first film role for six years shows his undeniable magnetism but squanders it on a baggy mix of tones and genres

Novocaine review – throwaway one-joke action comedy brings the pain

Jack Quaid is a charming lead as a man who can’t feel pain but this high-concept caper brings low-level enjoyment

DoJ official says she was fired after refusing to restore Mel Gibson’s gun rights

Elizabeth Oyer claims justice department senior ‘bullied’ her due to Trump’s relationship with actor sentenced for domestic violence in 2011

The Beguiled: 1971 Clint Eastwood film is a sweaty, southern hothouse

Before Sofia Coppola’s 2017 remake came Eastwood’s portrayal of a Union soldier taken in by an all-girls school. It’s an all-time scumbag performance