Brigitte Bardot auction in Paris fetches nearly €1m, with proceeds going to her animal welfare foundation and her son
Dog collars, guitars, straw hats and self-portraits among the 285 personal belongings put on sale
Meet Barbie Pig: new documentary reveals the wonders of life on the Pacific seabed
A magical new film captures the secret life of the deep sea in a stretch of the ocean at risk from industrial mining
Babystar review – a new arrival upends camera-ready life in disturbing family influencer satire
Every ethical issue surrounding parents vlogging their kids’ childhoods for money is raised in Joscha Bongard’s debut, but it releases the dysfunctional tension too easily
Moviegoer using phone during film pepper-sprayed in LA, police say
California man charged with misdemeanor battery in Burbank over incident sending three patrons to hospital
Sense and Sensibility review – Daisy Edgar-Jones leads sober-minded next-gen do-over of Austen romcom
With Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles as the Dashwood sisters, this fresh take on a beloved classic is not to be confused with Ang Lee’s
‘Being in Madness kept some of them out of jail’: how the baggy-trousered nutty boys made a guerrilla cinema classic
From a jail-inspired light sabre fight to the moment a sax-player flew, Take It or Leave It brilliantly captured the band’s grimy origins. Will the film’s return see it finally honoured as a music movie landmark?
The Seasons review – Portuguese pastoral offers poetic excavation of myth and mapping
The rugged roads and lush vegetation of southern Portugal are showcased in this weaving-together of disparate threads of history and landscape
Heart of the action: why organ couriers are cinema’s new heroes
Whether its a nod to frontline Covid heroes or a return to biology in a world of digital noise, there’s a rich vein of new films featuring organ deliveries, including Runner and the latest Resident Evil
‘Still feel a jolt of joy’: why Dirty Dancing is my feelgood movie
The latest in our ongoing series of writers highlighting their most rewatched comfort films remembers a 1987 teenage girl classic
Rising Up at Night review – community spirit shines bright in Kinshasa’s shadows
Religion and collective resilience are beacons of hope in an electricity-deprived DRC in this otherworldly documentary debut
Legend of the White Dragon review – Power Rangers alumni back for more in low-budget superhero retread
Simple but emphatic martial arts and a couple of classy cameos are all that give this blandly modern action film a fighting chance
La Bola Negra wins Toronto film festival people’s choice award
The queer period drama wins Oscar-predicting award, being named the most popular audience film at the festival
Readers reply: what would be the most useful superpower?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
‘Resident Evil movies? I’ve never seen one’: Weapons director Zach Cregger on resurrecting the beloved zombie franchise
Raised on punk, alt-comedy and the church, Cregger’s Lynchian approach to horror is anything but typical. After two wildly original hits, his pivot to a 30-year-old video game has caused a storm among protective fans
Hunk – or ‘unc’? What magazine covers of Michael B Jordan and Tom Cruise tell us about manhood
Images of two actors on front of Vogue and GQ land at a time when masculinity is increasingly dominating headlines