Video stars: the booming VJ scene localising Hollywood films for Ugandans

Part-interpreters, part-comedians, video jockeys translate and contextualise western movies for audiences at home

Bogieville review – trailer-park vampire thriller is filled with prosthetic fangs

Director Sean Cronin also acts, but the real star is teenager Poppie Jae Hughes – which doesn’t say much for its more senior players

Big Star: The Nick Skelton Story review – story of showjumping’s comeback king spares the horses

Documentary charting the British Olympian’s career including his return from breaking his neck is for equestrian fans only due to tight-lipped interviews

The Encampments review – account of pro-Palestine student protests overtaken by events

Documentary on protests of April 2024, when students set up an outdoor camp at the Ivy League school, is fascinating but much has been superseded by the arrest of student organiser Mahmoud Khalil after the re-election of Trump

Dangerous Animals review – shark-bait thriller boasts a gnarly Jai Courtney

A badass surfer on Australia’s Gold Coast takes on a villainous tour guide who is ferrying unwary sightseers to view the sharks

‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home

Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it

WTF with Marc Maron is ending. Here are five of the podcast’s best interviews

After nearly 16 years the veteran standup comic is calling time on the show that redefined podcasting

Clint Eastwood calls viral interview a fabrication: ‘Entirely phony’

The actor and director claims that an Austrian newspaper invented a recent interview with him

Tech-bro satire Mountainhead is an insufferable disappointment

Jesse Armstrong’s rushed Succession follow-up might be heavy on of-the-moment buzzwords, but it’s too smug to make any real point

Billy Williams obituary

Cinematographer who won an Oscar for Gandhi but did his most adventurous work on Ken Russell’s Women in Love

Kwesi Owusu obituary

Writer and film-maker at the heart of the African Dawn group who directed the critically acclaimed 1991 feature Ama

Falling Into Place review – earnest romantic drama aims to nail the thirtysomething dilemma

A magical encounter on Skye leads to real life back in London in Aylin Tezel’s honest but difficult-to-care love story

Three Friends review – charm aplenty in super-tasteful comedy that couldn’t be more French

All the typecast antics, such as having extramarital affairs, discussing feelings in depth and the occasional theatrical shrug are here in this typically bourgeois ensemble piece

‘People would prevail’: why The Towering Inferno is my feelgood movie

The next in our series of writers highlighting their go-to comfort picks is a look back to 1974’s rousing disaster classic

When the Phone Rang review – meditation on memory, displacement and the trauma of exile

In Serbian artist Iva Radivojević’s third feature – part memoir, part drama – a girl tries to recall her exiled past as a personal loss melds with the start of the Yugoslavian war