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My Best Friend’s Wedding 2: Celine Song to write sequel to hit comedy

The Past Lives and Materialists writer-director is set to pen a follow-up to the dark, Julia Roberts-led 1997 favourite

Gwyneth: The Biography by Amy Odell review – Gwyn and bear it

There’s glamour, Goop and ghosting in this an unsparing account of Paltrow’s world

By the 30s, Katharine Hepburn was box office poison. Then she made The Philadelphia Story

As a stuck-up socialite tangled in a love triangle, Hepburn delivers one of the most memorable screwball heroines – and we can’t help but love her

The shocking hit film about overworked nurses that’s causing alarm across Europe

A Swiss film about a nurse pushed to her limits one night is being praised for the picture it paints of treacherously underfunded healthcare. The director talks about the ‘heart-pounding’ story that inspired her

CatVideoFest: how clips of cute kitties spawned a million-dollar movie franchise

Every year since 2016, Will Braden has devoted himself to assembling a feature-length film from snippets of moggies doing the darndest things – and it has started to bring in serious money

Dogspiracy review – sincerity of activists is palpable in film that takes aim at puppy farming

TV vet and animal welfare campaigner Marc Abraham travels to the US to take on Big Pet Store’s conspiracy to maintain a cruel status quo

Savages review – indigenous teen and baby orangutan take on developers in Borneo

In this stop-motion animation from the director of My Life As a Courgette, our heroes stand up to deforestation with likable courage

Late Shift review – pressure is on in badly understaffed hospital as compassion shines through

Leonie Benesch brings a credible presence as Floria, a nurse crushed under an intolerable workload in frantic medical drama

The Banished review – cultish terrors lurk in the Australian outback

The folk-horror wave opens an Aussie branch in this shrewdly splintered tale of a city girl returning to her roots where chthonic menace awaits

‘Mum, I can’t think straight any more’: the mother who filmed her son’s entire childhood

Full of jeopardy, trauma and humour, Motherboard is a film made by a lone parent using 20 years of footage of her son – starting as a foetus. They talk about the fights, festivals and cancer diagnosis that went into it

The Fantastic Four: First Steps – the best origins movie Marvel has made in years? Discuss with spoilers

The franchise flat pack has been ditched for something weirder warmer, and more self-contained. So, what did you make of this retro sci-fi bedtime story?

40 Acres review – Danielle Deadwyler is driving heart of post-apocalyptic home-invasion horror

Echoes of generational trauma on Black and Indigenous peoples and the excellent Deadwyler as a farmer defending her family lift this above the schlocky

Malcolm-Jamal Warner obituary

Actor who found global fame as a teenager playing Theo Huxtable in the 1980s US TV sitcom The Cosby Show

Christopher Nolan criticised for filming in occupied Western Sahara city

Organisers of local film festival warn production of The Odyssey in Dakhla could normalise repression by Morocco

Summer Wars review – Mamoru Hosoda’s birthday party anime puts the world at risk from AI baddie

This thriller-cum-family drama is a cut above genre anime with narrative complexity, bravura imagery and a meta-commentary on the unfolding online catastrophe

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