My cultural awakening: a Steve Carell film made me realise I was being abused
After my dad died, my mum and I endured the coercive control of her new partner for years. It was The Way Way Back that freed us both
Freakier Friday to Ethel Cain: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
There’s more intergenerational larks in a sprightly body-swap sequel, and the Floridian dream-pop singer-songwriter is back with a new album of dark, skewed Americana
‘Alien is a warning, isn’t it?’: Essie Davis on Alien: Earth and Tasmania’s ecological crisis
The Babadook and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries star plays a corporate scientist pushing the limits of human survival in the new series Alien: Earth
The more James Gunn’s Superman is a hit, the more the right will want its own Dean Cain of steel
The star of 90s TV series Lois & Clark and wannabe Ice agent has expressed his horror at Gunn’s ‘woke’ hero. Is there a market for Superman: Border Patrol?
The Birthday Party review – Willem Dafoe is the life and soul as menacing Onassis-alike
A charismatic Dafoe commands the screen as a Greek alpha-patriarch, throwing a claustrophobic celebration for his second favourite child
Becoming Led Zeppelin to The Pickup: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
An extraordinary slice of rock history in documentary form – plus Eddie Murphy’s new goofball heist flick
Star of Rebel Wilson’s directorial debut threatens legal action over ‘false and seriously defamatory’ Instagram claims
Concerns notice issued to Wilson by lawyers for Charlotte MacInnes joins disputes playing out globally over Pitch Perfect actor’s film, The Deb
Eight Postcards from Utopia review – found-footage fever dream of post-Ceauşescu Romania
Diverting mosaic of moments from 1990s TV ads, frantically flogging everything from sausages to laxatives, shows Romania’s newfound passion for capitalism
‘Nobody believes in the future any more’: Adam Curtis and Ari Aster on how to wake up from the post-truth nightmare
Paranoia is exploited to control us. Movies are groomed to flatter us. And trauma has been twisted to make us blame ourselves. How can we make sense of our lives? The two film-makers try to navigate the chaos
‘Aggressively provocative’: test screening of Saltburn director’s Wuthering Heights gets mixed reaction
An early test showing of Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming Brontë adaptation suggests the unfinished film features horse-rein sex, suggestive egg yolks and necrophile nuns
‘We’re drawn to complicated people, not heroes’: Ashley Zukerman on Succession, Silo and playing ‘punchable men’
The 41-year-old Australian actor cringes when talking about success but admits he’s ‘proud of my work in the last few years in a way that I wasn’t before’
James Patterson to write book about Luigi Mangione
The crime writer and co-author Vicky Ward will recount murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, and chart ‘young man’s descent from Ivy League graduate to notorious accused killer’
Drink it up! All 21 Daniel Day-Lewis films – ranked
The triple Oscar winner has retired from the profession twice – and returned twice. Ahead of Anemone, directed by his son Ronan, we gorge on Day-Lewis’s back catalogue
James Cameron warns of ‘Terminator-style apocalypse’ if AI weaponised
Humans face three existential threats, from super-intelligence, nuclear weapons and the climate crisis, says blockbuster director as he announces new Hiroshima project
Catastrophe! Heroism! Paranoia! The dangerous romance of survivalist stories
Authors have been imagining societal collapse for decades – but could the reality be as dreadful as they think?