Director Mike Leigh likely to retire after his next film due to illness
Film-maker’s drama Tender Loving Care ‘likely’ his final one as he manages myositis, a disease affecting immune system
The Killer: without John Woo’s gun fu classic, Hollywood action films would be far more dull
The 1989 Hong Kong thriller established Woo as one of the greats, with its explosive gun fights, high-speed car chases and an incorruptible hero
Spider-Man: Brand New Day review – Zendaya saves Tom Holland’s semi-Cronenberg-style superhero
Now 30, Holland is back as the vexed webslinger in a sometimes shocking, occasionally sluggish new instalment opposite his Odyssey castmate
Lesvia review – the rise and fall of an amazing lesbian community on Sappho’s actual island home
Director Tzeli Hadjidimitriou grew up on Lesbos, and her elegant debut feature explores how the Greek poet’s birthplace became a hub for lesbians
Why has Christopher Nolan got rid of all the sex in The Odyssey?
It’s a bit of a mystery why it takes Odysseus so long to get home if he’s not shacking up with Calypso and others, writes Zoe Williams
Just when you thought it was safe … the shark movie is back for more
Shark Week arrives in an overstuffed period for the film genre even if nothing will ever rival the greatest of them all
Tinsman Road review – found footage haunted horror as a film-maker searches for his sister haunts
The soundscape of Robbie Banfitch’s latest low-budget film is key to the creepy mood, in a story of a disappeared girl and her brother’s attempts to find out more
Wham! 10 Days in China review – pop meets politics in George and Andrew’s great leap east
The duo’s groundbreaking 1985 tour reveals a strange collision of pop stardom and communism, a re-edit of Lindsay Anderson’s efforts that got him fired
‘She wasn’t acting, she wanted to live it’: how a fake pregnancy resulted in the wildest true crime film of the year
Netflix documentary A Child of My Own tells the stranger-than-fiction story of a hospital worker who went to extreme lengths in her efforts to become a mother. Its director recounts their meetings in a Mexican prison