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Jeremy Strong eyed to play Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network sequel

The Succession star is reportedly the leading choice to play the controversial tech mogul in Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up

How KPop Demon Hunters became the surprise Netflix smash of the summer

The musical adventure has become the streamer’s biggest animated original and its songs dominate the charts

Elton John and Spin̈al Tap release new version of Stonehenge – and correct stage prop disaster

John takes lead vocal on mystical classic rock anthem and performs it live for scene in Spin̈al Tap II: The End Continues, released in September

Guy Pearce: ‘I don’t think I’ll look as good in a frock as I did when I was 25’

The actor on getting back on the Priscilla bus, ‘horrible’ characters and the most profound thing anyone has ever said to him

From Zooey Deschanel to Captain Kirk doing Dylan: the best songs by actors, ranked!

As Margaret Qualley moves into music, we rate 20 tracks by stars of film and TV, with Ryan Gosling doing ghost-rock and Jamie Foxx bringing the funk

The return of the spoof: can comedy’s silliest subgenre make a comeback?

The Naked Gun returns this weekend hoping to relaunch a long-dormant subgenre with Scary Movie, Spinal Tap and Spaceballs sequels to follow

‘It’s the best monster ever invented’: Noah Hawley on bringing Ridley Scott’s Alien to TV

The writer-director defied expectations to turn the film Fargo into one of the best TV shows of the decade. Now he’s taking on an even bigger franchise. Can lightning strike twice?

‘Everybody was fondling underwater!’: the Rocky Horror Picture Show at 50 – an oral history

Mick Jagger wanted to play Frank-N-Furter, Susan Sarandon got pneumonia, and the cast were wet and half-naked most of the time. Richard O’Brien, Barry Bostwick, Patricia Quinn and Nell Campbell tell the surprising, seductive story of cinema’s longest-running cult smash

Self-belief and sex eggs: 10 things we learned about Gwyneth Paltrow from an explosive new biography

Amy Odell’s book about the controversial actor and Goop founder is brimming with stories – from Madonna giving her advice as a teenager to her disappointment at boyfriend Brad Pitt’s understanding of caviar

The Naked Gun review – Liam Neeson deadpans impeccably in outrageously amusing spoof reboot

Neeson plays the son of Leslie Nielsen’s Lt Frank Drebin, appearing opposite Pamela Anderson in this enjoyable, at times very bizarre, spoof of 80s LA action movies

The ‘Black Sundance’ honoring film-makers of color and focusing on community building

BlackStar Film Festival is ‘leaning into the moment’ with films defying genres and centering solidarity among groups

My Beautiful Laundrette review – landmark critique of Thatcher’s Britain with a larky Ealing air

Rerelease of funny-sad tale of a laundry madeover by a young south Asian man and his love interest (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a unique subversion of 1980s UK politics

Superhero movies are hits again – but can DC and Marvel avoid the same mistakes?

After a string of flops, Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps showed signs of life in the superhero genre once again. But what’s next?

Bring Her Back review – Philippou brothers bring all manner of scares to creepy custody battle

The Australian twins seal their position as dark chiefs of modern horror in story of an orphan trying to save his stepsister from a villainous Sally Hawkins

2000 Meters to Andriivka review – war in Ukraine as an eerie, pin-sharp waking nightmare

In his heartwrenching followup to 20 Days in Mariupol, photojournalist Mstyslav Chernov is embedded with the 3rd Assault Brigade during a gruelling counteroffensive

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