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Gen Z has very strong opinions about age-gap relationships – and it could be right

Older men and younger women were once an unremarkable screen pairing. But watching them with a new generation is a real education, writes Zoe Williams

Pandora’s Legacy review – fascinating profile of silent film legend GW Pabst

Through intimate letters and family interviews, this probing documentary about the Austrian film-maker reveals a complicated figure

Crushed review – Steve Oram is priestly lead in harrowing Bangkok-set child-abduction thriller

A priest investigates his daughter’s kidnapping in Thailand in this Paul Schrader-esque inquiry into spiritual nihilism

Just Play Dead review – Samuel L Jackson and Eva Green punch up switchback crime caper

Jackson and Green just about manage to distract viewers from the sub-par Tarantinoesque flourishes, confusing plot points and tired stereotypes

Kikuyu Land review – the colonial-era misery behind our morning cup of tea

The impact of colonial then corporate agricultural development is unravelled in a sobering documentary that takes a dramatic turn when a family secret is discovered

‘We could have had good fun a few decades ago’: Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant on sex scenes, parties and theatre

The actors are working together for the first time ever, in Noël Coward’s comedy Hay Fever. Backstage, there’s no stopping their tales of skinny-dipping, fat-shaming and warring co-stars

Rapper and actor Eve looks back: ‘I was the only girl in the boardroom in major label meetings – that Philly girl had to come out’

The Grammy-winning artist on ​destroying egos in school, the dealers who looked out for her, and learning from early failure

‘A joyful place’: a new museum coaxes Austrians to embrace The Sound of Music

Sixty years after the film’s release, Salzburg is embracing a Hollywood classic it once kept at arm’s length

NAZA film-makers address threats at documentary’s New York City premiere

Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor defend findings on Israel’s killing of Palestinians amid threats from Israeli officials

Godzilla Minus Zero review – spectacular Japanese action continues franchise’s winning streak

The follow-up to 2023’s Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One dazzles with smart social commentary and jaw-dropping effects

From Sense and Sensibility to Kill Jackie: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Daisy Edgar-Jones dons the bonnet in Georgia Oakley’s take on the Jane Austen classic, and Catherine Zeta-Jones battles assassins in a madcap action caper

Always a joker: Magda Szubanski reveals Heath Ledger asked to play her stalker on Kath and Kim

In her new memoir, I Can’t Tell You But I Will, Szubanski recalls how Ledger enjoyed their improvised kiss so much that he asked to be on the sitcom

‘In our deepest hearts we are voyeurs’: the paedophile-hunting show that inspired Robert Pattinson’s new film

Experts and insiders explain how To Catch A Predator became the most controversial show on 2000s TV

Meryl Streep’s casting as Aslan has angered the Christian right. Don’t they have more pressing issues?

The Oscar-winner is voicing Narnia’s wise lion in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew, leading to roars of fury from US evangelical commentators

‘She never accepted no’: Liam Neeson on dogged heroine behind Tuam mass baby grave film

Catherine Corless’s exposure of almost 800 infant deaths at a home led by nuns prompted Neeson to bring the story to screen

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  • Gen Z has very strong opinions about age-gap relationships – and it could be right
  • Pandora’s Legacy review – fascinating profile of silent film legend GW Pabst
  • Crushed review – Steve Oram is priestly lead in harrowing Bangkok-set child-abduction thriller
  • Just Play Dead review – Samuel L Jackson and Eva Green punch up switchback crime caper
  • Kikuyu Land review – the colonial-era misery behind our morning cup of tea
  • ‘We could have had good fun a few decades ago’: Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant on sex scenes, parties and theatre
  • Rapper and actor Eve looks back: ‘I was the only girl in the boardroom in major label meetings – that Philly girl had to come out’
  • ‘A joyful place’: a new museum coaxes Austrians to embrace The Sound of Music
  • NAZA film-makers address threats at documentary’s New York City premiere
  • Godzilla Minus Zero review – spectacular Japanese action continues franchise’s winning streak
  • From Sense and Sensibility to Kill Jackie: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • Always a joker: Magda Szubanski reveals Heath Ledger asked to play her stalker on Kath and Kim
  • ‘In our deepest hearts we are voyeurs’: the paedophile-hunting show that inspired Robert Pattinson’s new film
  • Meryl Streep’s casting as Aslan has angered the Christian right. Don’t they have more pressing issues?
  • ‘She never accepted no’: Liam Neeson on dogged heroine behind Tuam mass baby grave film
  • My dad was a monster! Sara Karloff on reviving Frankenstein, 95 years on
  • Susan Sarandon and Hannah Einbinder arrested at anti-Netanyahu protest in New York
  • ‘Cracking auction, Gromit!’ Original Aardman puppets go under the hammer
  • Bob Mackie obituary
  • ‘I get lost going to the bathroom’: John Hannah on world travel, stealing props and being ‘the Scottish Eminem’
  • Global release announced for acclaimed Gaza documentary NAZA
  • Post your questions for Zach Braff
  • Greek epics, gory obsessions and awkward invites: where does this year’s Oscars race stand?
  • ‘I’m a writer but then nobody’s perfect’: how Billy Wilder conquered Hollywood
  • Forgotten Island review – best friends forever trapped in frantic DreamWorks animation
  • Twenty years after An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore still believes in the climate fight: ‘We are going to win this’
  • ‘He made something every single day’: David Lynch’s inscrutable photography celebrated in LA show
  • Manhunter review – Michael Mann serves up a bold and queasy starter to the serial killer spectacle
  • Boorman and the Devil review – enjoyable re-evaluation of the disaster that was Exorcist II: The Heretic
  • Another taste of honey: Shelagh Delaney’s long-lost play about a teenage truant is a little gem

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