Meet the new James Bond: how 007 First Light earned its licence to thrill

While the future of the film franchise remains in flux, the developer of the forthcoming video game reveals how it pitched its origin story to Eon Productions, and reinvented the character for a new era

‘Always provided a release’: why Aliens is my feelgood movie

The latest in our ongoing series where writers highlight their rewatchable comfort films is an unlikely yet cathartic sci-fi horror classic

My Worst Enemy review – Iranian exile recreates torture and interrogation in study of regime power

Mehran Tamadon’s film about autocracy in Iran could have revealed more about methods of control, despite a star turn from Zar Amir Ebrahimi

Heidi: Rescue of the Lynx review – baby lynx is extra ingredient in new version of classic Alpine yarn

Also adding an evil land developer to the well-loved children’s story of a kindly girl in the Swiss mountains is ultimately uninspiring

How to save (or go for free) on a family day out this school summer holiday

From museums to a cinema or the great outdoors, there are many ways to cut the cost of your excursions

Indian film company to rerelease romantic drama with AI ‘happy ending’

Director ‘heartbroken’ after 2013 film about doomed romance between Hindu man and Muslim woman altered without his knowledge

The Fantastic Four: First Steps to Chief of War: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Pedro Pascal leads a sprightly reboot of the Marvel action franchise, and Jason Momoa returns to his birthplace for a spectacular historical epic

The Assassin to Tyler, the Creator: the week in rave reviews

Keeley Hawes is hitwoman on a rampage, while the hip-hop polymath is back with one eye firmly on the dancefloor. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews

‘Generations of women have been disfigured’: Jamie Lee Curtis lets rip on plastic surgery, power, and Hollywood’s age problem

The actor explains how she is fighting back against the ‘cosmeceutical industrial complex’ and why she has finally found freedom at 66 years old

Happy Gilmore 2 review – Adam Sandler’s Netflix sequel is strictly for the fans

Belated sequel to the 1996 comedy is unlikely to convert newcomers but there’s more than enough to entertain its cult fanbase

Top Boy actor Micheal Ward charged with rape and sexual assault

Ward, 27, is accused of offences against one woman in January 2023, say Metropolitan police

‘I call it a nihilist western’: director Athina Rachel Tsangari on her trippy folk horror Harvest

The genre-hopping director’s new work is a haunting pastoral feature about the destruction of a village. She talks ‘traumatic’ reviews, the film’s spectacular Romanian rock-inspired soundscape, and the problem with Greek cinema

‘They all looked the same, they all dressed the same’: has Hollywood distorted the Smurfs’ communist roots?

In Chris Miller’s new film, a Smurf is told to ‘believe you were born great’. But does this approach contradict what Peyo’s original Smurfs stood for?

Rumours to Fallen Leaves: the seven best film to watch on TV this week

A wild zombie plot set in a G7 summit, and a unique romantic comedy packed with deadpan humour