The Birthday Party review – Willem Dafoe is the life and soul as menacing Onassis-alike
A charismatic Dafoe commands the screen as a Greek alpha-patriarch, throwing a claustrophobic celebration for his second favourite child
Becoming Led Zeppelin to The Pickup: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
An extraordinary slice of rock history in documentary form – plus Eddie Murphy’s new goofball heist flick
Star of Rebel Wilson’s directorial debut threatens legal action over ‘false and seriously defamatory’ Instagram claims
Concerns notice issued to Wilson by lawyers for Charlotte MacInnes joins disputes playing out globally over Pitch Perfect actor’s film, The Deb
Eight Postcards from Utopia review – found-footage fever dream of post-Ceauşescu Romania
Diverting mosaic of moments from 1990s TV ads, frantically flogging everything from sausages to laxatives, shows Romania’s newfound passion for capitalism
‘Nobody believes in the future any more’: Adam Curtis and Ari Aster on how to wake up from the post-truth nightmare
Paranoia is exploited to control us. Movies are groomed to flatter us. And trauma has been twisted to make us blame ourselves. How can we make sense of our lives? The two film-makers try to navigate the chaos
‘Aggressively provocative’: test screening of Saltburn director’s Wuthering Heights gets mixed reaction
An early test showing of Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming Brontë adaptation suggests the unfinished film features horse-rein sex, suggestive egg yolks and necrophile nuns
‘We’re drawn to complicated people, not heroes’: Ashley Zukerman on Succession, Silo and playing ‘punchable men’
The 41-year-old Australian actor cringes when talking about success but admits he’s ‘proud of my work in the last few years in a way that I wasn’t before’
James Patterson to write book about Luigi Mangione
The crime writer and co-author Vicky Ward will recount murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, and chart ‘young man’s descent from Ivy League graduate to notorious accused killer’
Drink it up! All 21 Daniel Day-Lewis films – ranked
The triple Oscar winner has retired from the profession twice – and returned twice. Ahead of Anemone, directed by his son Ronan, we gorge on Day-Lewis’s back catalogue
James Cameron warns of ‘Terminator-style apocalypse’ if AI weaponised
Humans face three existential threats, from super-intelligence, nuclear weapons and the climate crisis, says blockbuster director as he announces new Hiroshima project
Catastrophe! Heroism! Paranoia! The dangerous romance of survivalist stories
Authors have been imagining societal collapse for decades – but could the reality be as dreadful as they think?
The Rise and Fall of the Clash Redux review – screen encore for punk’s raging heroes
Danny Garcia’s second take on the band’s story looks past their riotous ascent to the gloomier and rather less watchable years that followed
Former Superman actor Dean Cain reveals he’s becoming an Ice agent to support Trump’s mass deportation agenda
The actor will be sworn in ‘ASAP’ amid the federal agency’s recruitment drive and unprecedented immigration raids that have sparked protest across the US
How did a new War of the Worlds movie get a 0% critical rating?
A cursed Covid-made version of the HG Wells classic, starring Ice Cube, has emerged after five-year delay – perhaps it should have stayed buried
Weapons review – Zach Cregger’s slick Barbarian follow-up is a bumpy ride
The in-demand writer-director’s initially ambitious yet ultimately simplistic ensemble horror offers jolting moments but lacks substance