‘I thought it didn’t stand a cat’s chance in hell’: Andrew Ridgeley on Wham’s surreal trip to China

Four decades after he and George Michael became the first western pop act to tour the country, Ridgeley recalls silent gigs, awkward embassy receptions – and the ‘bloody ludicrous’ hiring of Lindsay Anderson as director

Tony Williams obituary

Other lives: Film expert who wrote books on the cinema and was a lecturer at Southern Illinois University in the US

Joanna Pettet obituary

Actor best known for the 1960s box-office smash Casino Royale

Chuck Russell obituary

Film-maker who reshaped The Mask as an exuberant comic spectacular and launched the film careers of Cameron Diaz and the Rock

Treasure as trinkets: Zendaya’s earrings renew debate on ownership of ancient artefacts

Jewellery made from BC Iran worn at Odyssey photocall throws spotlight on the trade of rare archeological finds

‘People who commit heinous crimes can be victims’: Michael Mann on the provocative power of Manhunter at 40

As a stunning 4K restoration arrives in theaters, the director and cast reflect on creating the disturbing descent into a criminal underworld

From A Useful Ghost to Self Esteem: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

A woman is reincarnated as a vacuum cleaner in this Cannes prize-winning black comedy, and the uncompromising pop star hits the festival trail

Christopher Nolan has made an Odyssey for our times – by sacrificing the delicious darkness of Homer’s epic

There’s no denying the power of the film on the big screen. But how far should modern moral sensibilities influence adaptations of classics? asks the Guardian’s chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins

Chuck Russell, director of The Mask and The Blob, dies aged 74

The film-maker, also behind A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, died on Wednesday in his San Diego home

Johnny Depp is playing Scrooge? I am not here for his big Hollywood comeback

‘It’s good to be back,’ says the actor in a new trailer for the forthcoming Ebenezer. Has everyone forgotten about the ghosts of his past?

In The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan worries the end of politeness will destroy civilisation. I fear he’s right

Since I saw the movie, I have found it difficult not to see Trojan horses everywhere. We live now in a state of perpetual distrustfulness

Prince William? David Cameron? JD Vance? Celebrities brace – and Staines celebrates – ahead of new Ali G film

Sacha Baron Cohen’s doofus voice of yoof has been making fresh mischief with new film Who Iz I? But who will he catch out this time? And what does his fictional hometown make of his return?

If Deadpool wants to be a true Marvel superhero, is it time he grew up and stopped joking around?

Ryan Reynolds’ sarcastic superhero is rumoured to be in Avengers: Doomsday – but how is he going to fit in the MCU proper when he spent all of his previous film mocking it?

The Devil Wears Prada 2 to Eleanor the Great: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Miranda and Andy reunite to save Runway magazine in the jolly couture-drenched sequel, plus Scarlett Johansson’s moving comedy about a twinkly eyed 94-year-old liar