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Nick Reiner: what do we know about Rob Reiner’s son who was arrested?

The 32-year-old screenwriter, who has dealt with addiction and homelessness, has been arrested after the deaths of of his parents

Nick Reiner to be charged with first-degree murder of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner

LA district attorney says charges could carry the death penalty, after Nick Reiner arrested in murder of his parents

From Harry Potter to The Crying Game, Susie Figgis’s explosive enthusiasm made her an irreplaceable casting director

Producer Stephen Woolley pays tribute to Figgis, who has died aged 77, a brilliant professional whose ‘molotov cocktail personality’ enabled her work in British and Hollywood cinema

Disclosure Day: first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s star-studded UFO movie

Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo and Eve Hewson head up the director’s latest effort

The Housemaid review – Sydney Sweeney takes the job from hell in outrageous suspense thriller

Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar co-star as Sweeney’s secretive bosses in an upstate New York mansion, and director Paul Feig ramps up the sexual tension with evident gusto

Being Charlie: the film Rob and Nick Reiner made together offers home truths

The 2016 drama, loosely inspired by the father-son relationship, is a gritty drama about addiction that has now become a puzzle piece

‘To be really successful, you have to be sexy in a straight way’: Ben Whishaw on libidinous New York and playing Peter Hujar

Peter Hujar captured a queer Manhattan demi-monde that is now lost to Aids. Whishaw reveals what he learned playing the photographer in a minimalist film being hailed by some as a masterpiece

The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago. But its lessons live on in The Quiet American

Phillip Noyce’s political drama is a searing critique of American interventionism that feels all too pertinent today

‘I could watch the final 30 minutes on a loop till the end of time’: Guardian writers’ favourite Rob Reiner moments

The director’s incredible versatility and talent meant that he could reduce to tears with anguish or laughter effortlessly pivoting from comedy to courtroom drama, romcom to rock mockumentary

Best movies of 2025 in the US: No 4 – Marty Supreme

Timothée Chalamet’s live-wire striver using ping pong as his ticket out of normie American life is just one of many wonders in this extraordinarily rich tale

Michael Douglas on One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: ‘My half of the producing fee I gave to Dad’

The actor looks back on his first foray as producer as the Oscar-winning drama reaches its 50th anniversary

Obamas were supposed to meet Rob and Michele Reiner on night of their deaths

The former first lady paid tribute on Jimmy Kimmel Live to ‘some of the most decent, courageous people you ever want to know’ as Jerry Seinfeld also writes of debt to Reiner

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‘I fear electromagnetic catastrophe’: Josh Safdie on Marty Supreme, latent Jewish anxiety and why men are lost

The Timothée Chalamet-starring comedy about a hustling table tennis ace has been voted one of the Guardian’s films of the year. Its writer/director talks ambition, American dreams and alien takeovers

How did a warm, cheery man like Rob Reiner make a film as horrific as Misery?

In an industry not exactly known for it, Reiner was an exceptionally nice guy. But he was too much of a showman to make a straight shocker. The result was rich, terrifying – yet cherished

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