Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing review – candy-haired popsters put on a show
A garbled story of metaverse musicians based on a mobile game leaves its audience little to grasp hold of
Joe Caroff obituary
American graphic designer who created the 007 pistol logo for the James Bond films
Composer John Williams says he ‘never liked film music very much’
Exclusive: The creator of some of cinema’s most memorable music says it pales in comparison to the great works
Y2K fashion and vinyl grooves: meet Abidjan’s young guardians of nostalgia
Two Ivorian archivists are documenting bygone eras in music and pop culture for younger African generations
‘Reminded me of Agatha Christie’: the shocking true story behind Ron Howard’s Eden
The Oscar-winning director’s new film, starring Jude Law and Sydney Sweeney, tells the stranger-than-fiction tale of mayhem on a remote island
Tim Key: ‘I imagine Alan Partridge smells lightly of Brut aftershave’
The comedian, actor and poet behind The Ballad of Wallis Island on stalking an England cricket captain, being evicted in Edinburgh and his love for fig rolls
Criminally good: the return of the high-class crime flick
A wave of smart, original mysteries, thrillers and heist dramas arrives this autumn from auteurs including Paul Thomas Anderson, Spike Lee, Kelly Reichardt and Darren Aronofsky
Schwarzenegger’s mission: terminate partisan rigging of California’s electoral maps
Former governor has long campaigned against partisan rigging of electoral districts and is not about to stop now: ‘We are not going to go into a stinking contest with a skunk’
‘New Noel Clarkes will surface’ without change in film and TV, say female witnesses
Women who gave evidence in failed libel trial against Guardian say industries need to safeguard women from sexual predators
The Guide #205: In an age of streaming clutter, why not rediscover Britain’s rich documentary past?
From Molly Dineen’s humane portraits to Channel 4’s wild experiments, the golden age of British TV documentaries offers more than the streamers’ endless banal choice
Sorry, Baby to Earl Sweatshirt: the week in rave reviews
A deft drama about the aftermath of a sexual assault and glitchy dispatches from hip-hop’s ‘otherground’. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews
Eddington to Deftones: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
Midsommar director Ari Aster’s latest is a neo-western starring Joaquin Phoenix, while the perennial California metallers return with another album of apocalyptic noise
Obsession, blackmail and Instagram: inside Lurker, the year’s most compelling thriller
The Talented Mr Ripley gets an upgrade in a buzzy and biting film about a desperate outsider who infiltrates the inner circle of a singer on the rise
Was my memory wiped or was the Star Wars sequel trilogy just that forgettable?
The Force Awakens and its follow-ups had so few memorable characters, it’s a wonder Disney – and Oscar Isaac – are still talking about potential spin-offs
Going nuclear: Kathryn Bigelow back in geopolitical territory with atomic thriller
A House of Dynamite, told from perspective of White House officials, will premiere at Venice before Netflix rollout