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Broadcast News: a romcom set in a TV studio that manages to make integrity sexy

Holly Hunter stars alongside William Hurt and Albert Brooks as a television producer who is helplessly in love with her work

Please take your seats, the carnage is about to begin: what will Quentin Tarantino’s West End debut look like?

The director has announced he’s turning to theatre, and mounting a play in London soon. The matinee coach parties may need to brace themselves

‘I’m not a big CGI guy’: Guns N’ Roses axeman Slash on remaking trash classic Deathstalker

The rock star has loved the cult film ever since he worked in a video shop. As his ‘requel’ gets its world premiere, he talks Hammer horror, soundtrack heaven – and how his dad got him into Edgar Allan Poe

The Ceremony review – stark, stylish migrant drama exposes a dark side to the Yorkshire Dales

Jack King’s black-and-white debut about Bradford’s carwash underworld is bleakly beautiful and superbly acted – even if its second half drifts after a gripping start

Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest rages against the new but leaves him looking too old

The film-maker’s ‘reinterpretation’ of the Kurosawa crime drama rails against AI, online media and new hip-hop but can’t find much new to say

Sharon Stone says she’s not involved in Basic Instinct reboot: ‘I don’t know why you’d do it’

The original film’s 80-year-old writer Joe Eszterhas will take a $2m fee for a new script but Stone will play no role in the film

Mistress Dispeller review – goodness and vulnerability shine through in candid love triangle doc

Elizabeth Lo gets participants to be extraordinarily open about their messy affairs as she follows a woman who helps spouses remove lovers from their partners’ lives

The Home review – Pete Davidson gets spooky with retirement-facility horror

Davidson stars as a convict doing community service in a home for older people, in a film that falls short on internal logic and feels like a subpar Get Out

Grand Prix of Europe review – rodents hit the road in easy-going family animation

The story of mice with a need for speed, this gentle feature voiced by some champion acting talent steers a safe but satisfying course

‘He gave me a massage. I’ve never been in more pain in my life’: Terence Stamp remembered by Paul Andrew Williams

The writer and director of Song for Marion recalls moments of bravado, tenderness and alarming physical fitness with the late actor

Quentin Tarantino weighs in on one of cinema’s big questions: what is the best Tarantino movie?

Director names his ‘masterpiece’ film, along with his favourite and the one he was ‘born to make’

Here We Go Again: the enduring appeal of Mamma Mia!

The blockbuster show has returned to Broadway to further cement its place as the most popular jukebox musical of all time

‘You’re gonna need a bigger bank account’: how a Jaws child actor turned a fleeting appearance into a fortune

The cheques keep rolling in for Jeffrey Voorhees, who played short-lived shark victim Alex Kintner when he was 12 – and he’s not the only one

‘These are moist times we live in’: the strange, sticky world of Australian film-maker Philip Brophy

Brophy’s short films Salt, Saliva, Sperm & Sweat and No Dance have been restored for a whole new generation of twisted moviegoers

Does James Bond have to be played by a man? Helen Mirren seems to think so

The actor says she is ‘such a feminist’ but that it doesn’t work to have a woman as the next 007. She may find that Amazon, which has taken creative control of the franchise, agrees, writes Zoe Williams

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