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‘I see the incredible promise’: on set of an AI film shoot as new studios embrace controversial tech

Amid fears for jobs, some film-makers say AI could enable them bypass studio giants and take more creative risks

Mission review – dangerous quest to mend a broken childhood

George MacKay plays a troubled restaurant worker embarking on bleak inner and outer journeys reflecting the pressures on young men

Borges and Me review – a sweetly imagined literary odyssey through the Highlands

Luis Gnecco brings warmth, wit and quiet melancholy to Jorge Luis Borges in this gently enchanting adaptation of Jay Parini’s semi-fictional memoir

Snapshot review – fun found-footage scarer follows amateur Ripper hunters in the 1880s

A women’s spiritualist investigation team go after the serial killer, braving evil forces conjured into being by fear, misogyny and political rage

From Tony to Jungle: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Dominic Sessa plays Anthony Bourdain in a fun biopic, and the ever-danceable UK funksters are back with a sun-dappled new album

The Greatest Showman musical to come alive on the West End stage in 2027

Disney production ran in Bristol earlier this year and its stars Oliver Tompsett and Samantha Barks will resume their roles at Theatre Royal Drury Lane

The Guardian view on booming poetry sales: Homer, meet the Instapoets

Editorial: In an unexpected twist, a Hollywood epic has contributed to Britain’s best-ever half-year in poetry sales

Out There review – saucer-eyed teen searches for aliens in YA comedy drama

Wales, 1999: Maz is convinced her dead father was abducted by extraterrestrials in Simon Ryninks’s likable film, with a funny turn from Michael Sheen as a new age type

These Violent Delights review – Scottish Ballet’s feverish Romeo and Juliet is bold and unsettling

A taut, dreamlike reimagining of Shakespeare’s tragedy strips away romance in favour of dread, creating an engrossing and fiercely physical dance film

Mad Rush review – an intricate phone scam isn’t quite enough to drive this very Melbourne movie

In Hollywood’s hands this would be a pulse-pounding thriller, but Maddelin McKenna’s lithe feature debut is all about street-level authenticity

‘I felt so inspired’: Guardian readers on trying Homer’s epics after seeing The Odyssey

Readers describe how Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster has ignited or reawakened their interest in classical texts

The Beast to Novak Djokovic: The Wolf in Winter: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Léa Seydoux and George MacKay look for love in a soul-searching sci-fi romance. Plus, a rare documentary that might change your opinions on tennis ace Novak Djokovic

Something Wile E this way comes: how the Looney Toons reboot movie came back from the dead

Cartoon royalty were lined for a live-action toon hybrid Coyote vs Acme. Then it was shelved as a tax write-off. But its cast, crew and fans fought for its release. Three years later it’s set to be a surprise summer hit

Nicole Kidman opens up about divorce from Keith Urban – and ‘throwing my career away’ for Tom Cruise

Actor, 59, reflects on high-profile marriages in Vogue interview, saying she felt ‘deeply vulnerable’ after split from Urban

Brian Robinson obituary

Other lives: BFI press officer and programmer for its Flare film festival

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  • ‘I see the incredible promise’: on set of an AI film shoot as new studios embrace controversial tech
  • Mission review – dangerous quest to mend a broken childhood
  • Borges and Me review – a sweetly imagined literary odyssey through the Highlands
  • Snapshot review – fun found-footage scarer follows amateur Ripper hunters in the 1880s
  • From Tony to Jungle: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • The Greatest Showman musical to come alive on the West End stage in 2027
  • The Guardian view on booming poetry sales: Homer, meet the Instapoets
  • Out There review – saucer-eyed teen searches for aliens in YA comedy drama
  • These Violent Delights review – Scottish Ballet’s feverish Romeo and Juliet is bold and unsettling
  • Mad Rush review – an intricate phone scam isn’t quite enough to drive this very Melbourne movie
  • ‘I felt so inspired’: Guardian readers on trying Homer’s epics after seeing The Odyssey
  • The Beast to Novak Djokovic: The Wolf in Winter: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • Something Wile E this way comes: how the Looney Toons reboot movie came back from the dead
  • Nicole Kidman opens up about divorce from Keith Urban – and ‘throwing my career away’ for Tom Cruise
  • Brian Robinson obituary
  • Borges, ballet and BDSM: 10 must-see movies at Edinburgh international film festival
  • Edinburgh international film festival showcases a Scottish industry in rude health
  • ‘It was fun to get pushed around’: Andrew Rannells on ‘razzle dazzle’, kissing co-stars and being a better friend to Lena Dunham
  • Imelda Staunton: ‘Umbridge’s giggle needed to be short and sharp. So I just did a boom, boom’
  • James: Getting Away With It review – hippies, hardnuts and dreamers unite
  • Hollywood encore: how ‘pro-shot’ Broadway shows became a major draw on the big screen
  • The End of Tom Six review – Human Centipede director delivers one last freaky flick
  • Hellcat review – woman imprisoned in camper van in nasty survival horror
  • With Hollywood struggling in China, can the Odyssey draw a crowd?
  • The Wrong Girls review – Kristen Stewart fumbles through forgettable stoner comedy
  • Don’t Say Good Luck review – high-school musical weepie puts Sunny Sandler in the spotlight
  • The End of Oak Street review – suburban dino-survival romp is more turkey than T-rex
  • In Venice, it’s not politics as usual as film-makers aim to recapture our attention
  • Steal This Story, Please! review – Amy Goodman, stalwart of the American left, shows her teeth
  • Mutants assemble: what does the future hold for the X-Men?

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