‘At 60, the bulk of your life is lived. What’s left now?’ Ralph Fiennes and Uberto Pasolini on their ripped and radical take on The Odyssey

The actor and director on why The Return took 30 years to make, their joy at persuading Juliette Binoche to join them – and the punishing regime that earned Fiennes his battle-scarred physique

Michael Burns obituary

Other lives: Cricket historian who wrote Seven Summers, an account of Surrey’s seven consecutive county championship triumphs

Carey Harrison obituary

Other lives: Son of the actor Rex Harrison who became a successful playwright and author

Red or Dead review – Peter Mullan never walks alone as Liverpool FC hero Bill Shankly

A cast of more than 50 delivers an inspiring adaptation of David Peace’s epic novel about a manager who prized socialism

Judge accuses RAF pair of ‘wanton vandalism’ for destroying Paddington Bear statue

Destruction of statue by RAF engineers described as ‘the antithesis of everything Paddington stands for’

From The Simpsons to Werner Herzog: the coolest, craziest, scariest Nessies ever

Loch Ness Monster hunters have included the Chuckle Brothers – and even David Lean. As the Scottish icon is honoured in a new stamp and a stirring musical, we separate the classy from the crackpot

Is Hollywood really going to ditch the anti-fascist satire in its Starship Troopers remake?

Reports suggest tongues are being removed from cheeks for a new version of Robert A Heinlein’s militaristic space opera. Is this due to Trump 2.0?

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

Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project review – electric film about radical thinker and poet

Featuring interviews and archive footage of the brilliant civil rights activist, the readings of her poems will have the hairs on the back of your neck standing up

Daniel Craig in line for role in Greta Gerwig’s Narnia film for Netflix

Gerwig is expected to begin filming The Magician’s Nephew, the origin story of CS Lewis’s classic fantasy novels, with the actor reported to have a major role

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

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

The trauma plot: how did culture get addicted to tragic backstories?

Again and again, audiences have been spoon-fed the same story: a character can only be explained by a past trauma, tantalisingly revealed in the last episode. Has the trope reached a tipping point?