Sizzle reels: nine films to watch in a heatwave
Whether you fire up the outdoor projector or Netflix and chill in a cool, dark place – let the escapism of cinema be a balm amid the punishingly hot weather
‘I’ve had a huge life, so I needed a big budget’: Madonna says biopic was scrapped after ‘falling out’ with studio
‘Maybe they just didn’t believe in me,’ the pop star said of Universal, which was set to make a film about her life starring Julia Garner
500 Miles review – kids hit the road to visit Irish grandad Bill Nighy in YA tearjerker
Nighy is the Dingle dwelling grandfather of a Sheffield family in strife in sentimental adaptation of Mark Lowery’s novel Charlie and Me
‘Climate change is a form of oppression’: the voices affected most by environmental crisis
In HBO documentary The Welcome Table, director Josh Fox brings together people from across the world whose lives have been dramatically altered by the climate crisis
The Morrigan review – spirit of pagan demon queen unleashed in Irish burial chamber horror
Archaeologists blunder into an ancient and unwittingly release a vengeful monster – with predictable and conventional results
Landship review – soldiers yearn for tinned meat in muddy first world war drama that stays inside the tank
It’s too murky to distinguish one stiff upper lip from another in Callum Burn’s drama about a real-life mission that came unstuck
Self-doubt, burnout … and Taylor Swift: why Toy Story 5 is the ultimate millennial girl movie
Nostalgia hits hard for anyone who has grown up with the franchise. But little could prepare me for the emotional punch of this latest film – and the very specific vulnerabilities it taps
Lost memoir of Hiroshima survivor found after decades in US archive
Written in 1947, Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s account of the horrors of the atomic bomb attack will be published in August and is being made into a film
Once Upon a Time in Holyhead: Quentin Tarantino and Kylie Minogue shooting film in Porthcawl
Pair pictured ‘laughing and singing’ at Welsh seaside town’s Saltwater Inn, for post-funeral scene in film by British film-maker Jamie Adams
Pitfall review – big-hole survival horror is as if cast of Friends strayed into Deliverance
Laborious and bombastic thriller set in a forest where a maniacal woodsman and a cast of irritating victims converge with gory results
Jabs, human ash and a tapeworm: behind the appetite for a new kind of disordered eating movie
Supernatural horror Saccharine and melodramatic comedy Maddie’s Secret are the latest films on body-image anxieties served up by Hollywood
Benita review – Alan Berliner puts new spin on late film-maker’s work in entrancing tribute
After Benita Raphan took her own life in 2021, director and friend Berliner spent years poring over her unfinished work to create a documentary unlike anything else
‘Sheer outrageousness’: writers on their favourite LGBTQ+ movie characters
From gritty criminals to teens coming to terms with their identity, Pride month sees Guardian writers on their most beloved queer characters
Shadows of Willow Cabin review – secrets fester beneath horny hookup in low budget horror
Two men’s romantic getaway turns creepy in a talky elevated chiller about escaping the binds of the past