How to Train Your Dragon to Neil Young: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
The kids’ animation gets a sprightly live-action remake, and rock’s angriest elder statesman returns with a new album and backing band
‘The risk was worth it’: All Fours author Miranda July on sex, power and giving women permission to blow up their lives
The artist and author’s hit book had so much in common with her own life that even her friends forgot it wasn’t real. How did this revolutionary portrayal of midlife desire come to inspire a generation of women?
Dangerous Animals review – serial killer meets shark movie in this formulaic fizzer
Jai Courtney eats up his role as the crazed captain of a tourist boat – but he can’t quite wrestle this creature feature from its straitjacket
Heroic indifference: was Thunderbolts* always doomed at the box office?
A cast of indie darlings and the critics’ seal of approval hasn’t saved this supervillain spin-off – but that asterisk is a sign of monumental instalments to come
My unexpected Pride icon: Free Willy helped me see the radical power of coming out
An oppressed orca breaking free to find its true family? It may not be obviously queer, but I’ve found much comfort in Willy and Jesse’s story in this film
Post your questions for Eric Idle
The comedy legend is touring the UK in September, but before he arrives here’s a chance to ask him anything about Python, hosting SNL, Trump and looking on the bright side
Echo Valley to Joker: Folie à Deux – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney star in a satisfying thriller from the writer of Mare of Easttown. Plus, the supervillain origin story turns into a full blown musical … thanks to Lady Gaga
‘Completely captivated’: the rousing return of musicals’ dream ballets
From Oklahoma! and Singin’ in the Rain to The Big Lebowski and Maestro, these showstoppers give a blissful hit of dance. A Rodgers and Hammerstein triple bill at Regent’s Park Open Air theatre reawakens the tradition
Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story review – dazzling glamour and true grit
This indulgent but madly watchable documentary showcases Minnelli’s tremendous star wattage alongside the tragedy of a life lived in the full glare of show business
‘I’m not The Rock, right?’ Julianne Moore on action movies, appropriate parenting and twinning with Tilda Swinton
Ahead of her new film – in which she fights, dives and wrangles horses – the Oscar-winning actor discusses sunburn, age-gaps and hanging from helicopters
Mel Brooks to reprise role in Spaceballs sequel
The actor-writer-director, who will turn 99 this month, is set to return for an in-development follow-up to his 1987 spoof comedy
Taina Elg obituary
Finnish actor who won two Golden Globes, starred in Les Girls and later worked in television and musical theatre
‘It was simply mind-blowing’: readers remember seeing Star Wars for the first time
As the original 1977 theatrical version screens in London this week, fans recall being ‘blown away’ by their first impressions of the mesmerising space opera
‘Chaps frame the buttocks in a beautiful way’: John C Reilly on Magnolia, moving into music – and his nice bum
The actor and musician takes your questions on devastating box office results, his love of Oliver Hardy, and his new vaudeville crooner alter ego
Kate Beckinsale sues producers of thriller Canary Black over ‘unsafe conditions’
The actor claims she was made to work 15-hour days without proper support and suffered a knee injury as a result of a scene where she was thrown into a wall