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What are you yearning for? We took to the streets to find out

Longing for someone – or something – can be even more thrilling than getting what you want. That knowledge has inspired endless movies, but what do real people yearn for? We asked the question in Glasgow

Pickpockets review – small-budget Australian crime flick steals audience’s heart

DC Fairhurst and Lucy Green’s film could have been a by-the-numbers genre piece. Instead it is fun, frothy and refreshingly different

Bluey’s Daley Pearson on how losing his brother inspired his new film: ‘He was the best thing ever to me’

The first live-action film from Pearson’s Ludo Studio follows a man who met an alien as a kid – and becomes obsessed with bringing him back

Monica Dolan looks back: ‘I was repulsed by Rose West, yet I had to work out what made her tick’

The Bafta-winning actor on her toughest roles, teenage crushes, and the joy of finding her people at drama school

How African philosophies inspired a new approach to staging film festivals in Manchester

See My World, an event highlighting the pan-African thought via film, poetry and dance builds on momentum sparked by local activists and creatives

‘I’ve seen people in my neighbourhood pulled out of their cars’: Ava DuVernay on the cruelty and brutality of Trump’s America

Ten years after her landmark political documentary 13th, the film-maker delivers a follow-up on the 14th amendment – and the Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle birthright citizenship

Hollywood banks on Ebenezer to bring Johnny Depp in from the cold

Dickens character is actor’s first big studio role after years overshadowed by legal battles with ex-wife Amber Heard

From Wild Horse Nine to Kings of Leon: your complete entertainment guide for the week ahead

John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell team up in a typically offbeat Martin McDonagh comedy, and the Followill brothers reach album No 10 in rustic mode

Russell Brand suspected to have attacked at least 10 other women

Met police chief says ‘many more’ victims could come forward, as actor and comedian awaits sentencing

Sebastián Lelio was a fascinating film-maker of great passion and poetry

Chilean director of films including Gloria and A Fantastic Woman could expertly capture both the personal and political

Sebastián Lelio, director of A Fantastic Woman and Gloria, dies aged 52

The Chilean film-maker, whose films starred Florence Pugh, Julianne Moore and Rachel Weisz, died at his home in Santiago

Marilyn Monroe is a magnetic misfit in Speculations, a spicy conspiracy drama full of bombshells

Trevor Nunn directs Torben Betts’s intriguing but flawed play following US journalist Dorothy Kilgallen’s theories about the Kennedys

The Cat in the Hat review – Bill Hader brings plenty but this animated rework is a mess

The SNL alum has an appealing energy and this is an improvement on the 2003 travesty but it’s also far too long and strangely corporate

If Dune is this generation’s Star Wars, we are all in big trouble

According to Florence Pugh, Denis Villeneuve’s stunningly strange and breathtaking universe is the equivalent to George Lucas’ heroic space opera. Let’s hope not

Rocky review – 50 years on, Stallone’s boxer remains an exhilaratingly gritty contender

The actor’s triumphant breakthrough has clear ancestors in grimy tales of working-class struggle, but finds a fresh, rousing idealism

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  • What are you yearning for? We took to the streets to find out
  • Pickpockets review – small-budget Australian crime flick steals audience’s heart
  • Bluey’s Daley Pearson on how losing his brother inspired his new film: ‘He was the best thing ever to me’
  • Monica Dolan looks back: ‘I was repulsed by Rose West, yet I had to work out what made her tick’
  • How African philosophies inspired a new approach to staging film festivals in Manchester
  • ‘I’ve seen people in my neighbourhood pulled out of their cars’: Ava DuVernay on the cruelty and brutality of Trump’s America
  • Hollywood banks on Ebenezer to bring Johnny Depp in from the cold
  • From Wild Horse Nine to Kings of Leon: your complete entertainment guide for the week ahead
  • Russell Brand suspected to have attacked at least 10 other women
  • Sebastián Lelio was a fascinating film-maker of great passion and poetry
  • Sebastián Lelio, director of A Fantastic Woman and Gloria, dies aged 52
  • Marilyn Monroe is a magnetic misfit in Speculations, a spicy conspiracy drama full of bombshells
  • The Cat in the Hat review – Bill Hader brings plenty but this animated rework is a mess
  • If Dune is this generation’s Star Wars, we are all in big trouble
  • Rocky review – 50 years on, Stallone’s boxer remains an exhilaratingly gritty contender
  • Being Heumann to Avedon: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • Elke Sommer obituary
  • John Leeson obituary
  • The downfall of Russell Brand: from Big Brother and Hollywood to convicted rapist
  • Raise the Red Lantern review – Gong Li gives a decade-defining performance in an addictively ruthless masterpiece
  • I Play Rocky review – Anthony Ippolito adds knockout sweetness to the story of Stallone’s Hollywood triumph
  • Jimmy review – simple-minded James Stewart biopic is too straightforward
  • Think of England review – far-fetched tale of state-sponsored second world war porn turns deadly serious
  • Being Heumann review – stirring biopic of a pioneering disability rights campaigner
  • A Dog’s Perfect Christmas review: Netflix kicks off holiday movie season with a whimper
  • Tinto Brass, director of Caligula and maestro of Euro erotica, dies aged 93
  • ‘He lent me his RSC Oberon cape for my school play’: Patrick Stewart remembered by readers
  • Ramayana: Rise of a Legend review – India’s most expensive film ever becomes spectacular, huge-scale epic
  • Callum Turner emerges as James Bond favourite as Pierce Brosnan endorses actor: ‘He’s so strong’
  • Crawlers review – killer-spiders movie offers giant-arachnid action alongside anticapitalist commentary

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