Sondra Lee, Broadway star of Hello, Dolly! and Peter Pan, dies aged 97
The Broadway actor’s nine-decade career included beloved screen roles and coaching Marlon Brando and Jane Fonda
Berlin film festival organisers to hold crisis talks amid Gaza rows
Emergency meeting called to discuss festival’s ‘future direction’ after series of controversies
Source close to Rolling Stones disputes Melania producer’s claim Mick Jagger ‘gave his blessing’ to use song
Spokesperson for Rolling Stones tells Guardian band did not liaise with Marc Beckman and his team on use of Gimme Shelter in first lady documentary
Everybody to Kenmure Street review – community triumphs in inspiring retelling of 2021 Glasgow protest
Emma Thompson voices the anonymous ‘Van Man’ in a documentary about local people standing their ground against heavy-handed immigration enforcement
In the Blink of an Eye review – Pixar director’s long-delayed sci-fi epic falls flat
The director of Finding Nemo and Wall-E has made an ambitious yet entirely baffling mess with the help of Rashida Jones and Kate McKinnon
Floodland review – a moving portrait of Lismore and its inhabitants
Filmed in the aftermath of the 2022 Lismore floods, this documentary moves like water, dipping into the lives of various townspeople with fluid ease
Gregory de Polnay obituary
Other lives: Long-serving actor on stage and TV who later turned to work as a voice coach and drama teacher
‘People feel like they’re in on the joke’: the new wave of pseudo-biopics
It’s not about John Bishop, Anna Wintour or Bill Clinton, but … Screen stories about pop stars, actors, sporting heroes or politicians bend fact by steering close to the deeds, or misdeeds, of real celebrities. What’s behind their rise?
‘I really believe in revivals of Black work’: why a director brought back Chadwick Boseman’s play Deep Azure
The late actor’s writing was overshadowed by roles in blockbusters. Now, Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu is giving his play about grief the audience it deserves
Tourette syndrome activist John Davidson says Bafta told him ‘any swearing would be edited out of the broadcast’
Davidson said he ‘can’t begin to explain how upset and distraught I have been’ over slurs he shouted during the award ceremony
Marty Supreme’s ping-pong thrills grip but the theatre plot really smashes it
In Josh Safdie’s film, the worlds of sport and the stage are aligned – with the stakes higher for Gwyneth Paltrow’s former screen star, now on Broadway, than for Timothée Chalamet’s table-tennis hotshot
The Martini Shot review – Matthew Modine and a cast to die for can’t fathom an unholy mess
Modine plays a dying director shooting his final film – alongside Derek Jacobi, John Cleese and Stuart Townsend – in this baffling existential drama
I was at the Baftas – and while hearing the N-word was unsettling, all anger should be aimed at the BBC
By failing to remove John Davidson’s tic from the broadcast, editors let down both black and disabled people, says Guardian assistant Opinion editor Jason Okundaye
Palestine Comedy Club review – roving performance collective finds light in darkness
This portrait of a multi-ethnic comic troupe could do with more unpicking, but its reflections on the grind of war, life on the road and the reactive nature of comedy are insightful
Katherine Short, daughter of actor Martin Short, dies aged 42
Short, a social worker, was found dead at her home in Los Angeles on Monday in an apparent suicide