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Sinners star Miles Caton: ‘I didn’t know how much I would be in the film … it might have scared me’

The actor and musician’s first film role was the musical prodigy in the surprise hit horror. Now he’s up for a Bafta and about to perform live at the Oscars – and it’s all still sinking in

Peaky Blinders – The Real Story review – how a pop crime sensation became a network-hopping brand

This patchwork tribute to a cultural phenomenon that sent Cillian Murphy’s undercut hairstyle global is a rather unambitious affair

Shia LaBeouf allegedly called queer man homophobic slurs before New Orleans arrest

Actor allegedly also made remarks to man who dresses in drag, and was seen dancing on Bourbon Street after arrest

Bad Bunny set for first lead acting role in historical drama Porto Rico

The Grammy winner will star alongside Edward Norton and Javier Bardem in a film inspired by an early 20th century revolutionary, directed by rapper Residente

Tom Noonan, actor known for Heat and Manhunter, dies aged 74

Actor, whose credits also included RoboCop 2, Anomalisa and Heaven’s Gate, was also an accomplished playwright

‘I don’t wish anyone to fall down a sewer. Except sometimes’: TikTok sensation and Oscar-nominated star of Weapons Amy Madigan

As her nightmarish turn as orange-wigged child-catcher Aunt Gladys takes her to Oscars night, the actor talks about surviving ‘brutal’ Hollywood, the fury that almost drove her from the US – and still being homeless after the wildfires

Queen at Sea review – crushingly sad dementia drama offers a startling portrait of intimacy

Driven by fine performances from Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall, Lance Hammer’s comeback is unbearable in its tragic candour and essential in its moral questioning

How to Make a Killing review – how to make a pointless remake

Kind Hearts and Coronets gets a slick, Glen Powell-led remix that’s stylishly made but entirely redundant

‘Bored by all the sex and violins’: readers on Wuthering Heights film

Reaction to Emerald Fennell’s movie adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi

Wasteman review – Brit prison drama is as lethal and nasty as a sharpened toothbrush

Some of the tropes are familiar, but this brutally violent and gripping film sidesteps the cliches with committed acting and fierce storytelling punch

Dust review – timely fictionalisation of a tech-bro dotcom bust that blighted rural Belgium

The drama about two startup innovators defeated by their egotistical overreach feels as if it presages these AI times

Fukushima review – a devastating account of disaster and denial in 2011 nuclear catastrophe

A tense return to the disaster foregrounds the heroism of the ‘Fukushima 50’ while raising questions about corporate secrecy and nuclear safety

Australian screen industry crushed as Universal shutters Matchbox Pictures, with 30 jobs lost

Peak screenwriting body says the closure is a reminder industry cannot rely on ‘whims of international studios to keep us afloat’

Scare Out review – Zhang Yimou’s twisty spy thriller offers eye-popping stunts and future tech

Chinese master director Zhang’s latest is more style over substance as spies hunt a mole providing the West with intelligence

TV tonight: inside the lives of remarkable cancer surgeons

A consultant reveals what it’s like to tell someone they have cancer. Plus: eight artists paint a Henry II’s ‘bling’ fortress. Here’s what to watch this evening

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