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George Clooney says his children have a ‘much better life’ being raised in France than LA

The actor said that life on their French farm will be free of paparazzi, teach them self sufficiency and let them see his handyman skills, such as fixing the coffee machine

Lynne Ramsay’s passion, Jim Jarmusch’s star turn and knives come out again: Peter Bradshaw’s London film festival picks

Among this year’s must-sees Jennifer Lawrence brings gothic steam, Daniel Craig takes a new case and a constellation of luminaries get cosmic

Night of the Zoopocalypse review – Clive Barker story becomes zombified animal caper for horror-hungry kids

Perhaps the first animated animal adventure based on a story by Hellraiser writer Barker, with commendably scary baddies and a lemur who is a horror-movie buff

Under the Open Sky review – camels and turbines in absorbing portrait of a threatened way of life

Intimate, unhurried documentary follows a family of nomadic herders on the plains of western India

The Burden review – deeply personal portrait of living with Aids in secret

Elvis Sabin Ngaibino’s poignant documentary shows the pressures faced by family members forced to keep their condition hidden in their deeply religious community

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

John Russell Taylor obituary

Film and art critic and cultural historian who wrote an authorised biography of Alfred Hitchcock

‘Laugh, muchachos’: Spitting Image studio sued after Paddington Bear episode

StudioCanal and author’s estate taking action over video depicting Paddington with South American accent snorting powder

Amazon drops gun-free James Bond poster artwork from Prime Video streaming site

After a backlash from fans and media outlets branding Bond ‘woke’ the offending artwork has been removed from sites and replaced with stills – that are also ‘gunless’

‘The world needs to know what happened to my baby’: inside devastating new police bodycam film The Perfect Neighbor

Composed almost entirely of footage filmed by police, The Perfect Neighbor is a harrowing documentary about a black woman shot by her white neighbour in Florida. The director reveals how she made it

Daniel Day-Lewis is cross that people equate method acting with ‘behaving like a lunatic’. That’s exactly why we love it

The actor famous for intensely immersing himself in film roles has spoken out about the technique and the attempts of others to ape it

Plainclothes review – shame and anxiety in entrapment yarn about a gay cop going undercover

A quietly observed New York police story explores desire, friendship and the pressures of identity – though its impact is undercut by an implausible final twist

‘Logs falling from the sky’: the harrowing true story behind wildfire drama The Lost Bus

Paul Greengrass’s anxiety-inducing new disaster drama relives the devastating 2018 Camp fire in California, a day relived by its survivors here

One Bladder After Another: why bros are finally having to queue for the loo

There are few things more irritating than waiting outside the Ladies while men sail in and out of their own facilities. A new, very long film has changed all that, writes Guardian columnist Emma Beddington

London Calling review – Tarantino-esque caper in which a hitman takes a kid on work experience

A washed-up killer-for-hire is charged with making callow gamer Jeremy Ray Taylor into a killer like his dad, but much of the humour fails to land

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