My cultural awakening: The Big Lebowski inspired me to embrace unemployment
The Dude’s relaxed attitude towards the pressures of life helped me realise it was better to be jobless than stuck in one I hated
From the Celebrity Traitors finale to a Margaret Atwood memoir: the week in rave reviews
A truly satisfying climax to the celeb reality show, and the sharp and engaging thoughts of the Handmaid’s Tale author. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews
Die My Love to Rosalía’s Lux: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
Lynne Ramsay’s latest is a portrait of a relationship in decline, while the Spanish nu-flamenco star enlists a plethora of talent for her latest album
As his debut film Once Were Warriors showed, Lee Tamahori was a director of guts and flair
Tamahori was the outstanding director of Along Came a Spider and Die Another Day – but his first film was his greatest work
Lee Tamahori, director of Once Were Warriors and James Bond movie Die Another Day, dies aged 75
New Zealand film-maker became a Hollywood fixture in the 90s and 00s, including making Pierce Brosnan’s last 007 movie, before returning to his home country
Pauline Collins obituary
Actor who earned an Oscar nomination for portraying Shirley Valentine, a dissatisfied housewife who sets off on a romantic quest in Greece
Film festival in New York cancelled after China puts pressure on directors
Participants ask for their films not to be shown at IndieChina event, which was due to launch this weekend
Campaign director: Zohran Mamdani’s ideas are indebted to the films of his mother, Mira Nair
The passionately inclusive politics of the newly-elected New York mayor have clear echoes in boundary-breaking movies such as Salaam Bombay! and Monsoon Wedding
In Your Dreams review – Netflix dreams up solid sub-Pixar adventure
Echoes of Inside Out and Coco in streamer’s engaging enough caper about a brother and sister journeying through their dreams
The ‘Kelvin-verse’ is history. Where do the Star Trek movies go from here?
One of the new Paramount ownership’s first acts has been to end the Chris Pine/Zachary Quinto series of Trek movies. But surely they can’t stop making them forever?
‘If you’re unhappy with Reform, this is a soothing balm’: Gurinder Chadha on her reboot of A Christmas Carol
She has directed cross-cultural versions of Pride and Prejudice and It’s a Wonderful Life. Now, the film-maker is reworking Dickens’s A Christmas Carol – with an Asian Scrooge
Elizabeth Olsen believes she will die old and alone in a foggy English coastal town. Here are her options
While promoting new film Eternity, the actor outlined a specific end-of-life scenario that should be cold, wet and include one cheese shop
‘Why don’t you believe Palestinians?’: the Israeli comedian putting the conflict on stage
In documentary Coexistence, My Ass!, Noam Shuster Eliassi uses humor and honesty to turn a one-woman show into something politically radical
Mickey 17 to Belén: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Mark Ruffalo and Robert Pattinson star in Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to the Oscar-laden Parasite, while Belén is the moving true story of a woman’s fight against a legal injustice that looks set to sweep this year’s Academy Awards
Alex Winter on fame, AI and reuniting with Keanu Reeves: ‘Sometimes we’re on a groove and go, ‘God damn, that was good!’
Midway through the Broadway run of Waiting for Godot with his Bill & Ted co-star Keanu, the actor-director talks about his new film, Adulthood, overcoming the abuse he endured as a young performer, and why we’re wrong about artificial intelligence