My cultural awakening: The Parent Trap made me reconnect with my estranged father
Growing up with a stepfather made me wonder about my real dad – until the Lindsay Lohan film inspired me to seek him out
House of Guinness to Olivia Dean: the week in rave reviews
Steven Knight takes on Dublin’s booze dynasty with sex appeal, while the London singer-songwriter goes from strength to strength with her second album. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews
From One Battle After Another to the Turner prize: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
Paul Thomas Anderson takes on Thomas Pynchon in his new film, while Bradford hosts the often controversial annual art contest
The Guide #210: Is One Battle After Another finally Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscars moment?
In this week’s newsletter: The latest from the American virtuoso director is a big, swing-for-the-fences hit that looks certain to be an awards season contender
Alan Bergman obituary
Prolific songwriter with his wife, Marilyn, whose compositions were picked up by some of the biggest names in popular music
Jennifer Lawrence on Gaza: ‘What’s happening is no less than a genocide’
Oscar-winning actor says she’s ‘terrified’ over Israel’s deadly war and spoke about fears over erosion of free speech in US
‘Racist fantasy’: the artist who remade record-breaking, KKK-celebrating film The Birth of a Nation
Stan Douglas explains why he used actors and changed plotlines in his re-imagining of the 1915 white supremacist vision of the US’s origins – in response to enduring prejudices
50 First Dates: The Musical review – sunny ensemble serve up breezy romcom
Georgina Castle and Josh St Clair make a likable couple who endlessly replay their first meeting but this adaptation needs more emotional punch
Digested week: Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension backfires with a Streisand effect return
Plus ‘American values’ versus ‘British values’ and Emma Watson’s allergic reaction to press junkets
Avatar: Fire and Ash trailer teases planetary peril and a crisis of faith
Should we be steeling ourselves for three-plus hours of ecological disaster and knotty eschatology?
Steve to American Fiction: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Cillian Murphy is superb as the headteacher of a school for troubled boys in a tragic and brilliant drama, while Jeffrey Wright proves he can do no wrong in a knife-edge satire. Plus, Bridget Jones!
TV tonight: the end of an era for the most controversial cookery show
It’s the final of Masterchef, as Gregg Wallace and John Torode exit. Plus there’s fun media malarkey with The Paper. Here’s what to watch this evening
‘This is the first time I’ve not thought about the box office’: Dwayne Johnson on wrestling, reinvention and the role that could redefine him
He became cinema’s most bankable strongman. But weary of his own persona, Johnson turned to indie director Benny Safdie – and delivered a bruising new role that rewrites his own rulebook
Disney investors demand details into company’s Jimmy Kimmel suspension
Shareholders want ABC owner to turn over documents related to decision to temporarily suspend late-night show
Liev Schreiber and Debra Messing among names rejecting pledge to boycott Israeli films
More than 1,200 industry figures claim the pledge is ‘a document of misinformation’ and that much of the Israeli film and TV industry are ‘often the loudest critics of government policy’