The Road to Patagonia review – an epic journey from Alaska to the Andes

Director Matty Hannon’s adventures are a dazzling cinematic homage to nature even if his environmental commentary sometimes roams a bit too freely

Post your questions for John C Reilly

As he releases his debut album as Mister Romantic, the veteran Hollywood actor will answer your questions

‘I smile every time’: why Amélie is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their favourite comfort films is a reminder of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s charming Parisian fairytale

A Golden Life review – childhood is collateral damage in Burkina Faso’s search for gold

An intimately shot documentary captures the dignity and resilience of teenagers who toil in mines where companionship is the only consolation for graft

No meat, no beer and hopefully no poison: the curious tale of Hitler’s food tasters

Based on Margot Wölk’s extraordinary account, Silvio Soldini’s film The Tasters sees a group of women seemingly risk their lives with each bite. But does the story add up?

Hello Stranger review – interactive thriller puts remote worker in trial-by-internet

A lonely man is forced into a series of deadly games by a masked online sadist in this choose your own adventure – but bouts of paper-scissor-stones fail to engage

‘My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six’: Alan Alda on childhood, marriage and 60 years of stardom

Best known as Hawkeye in M*A*S*H in the 70s, the 89-year-old actor has topped the Netflix charts with a revamp of his 1981 film The Four Seasons. He talks about Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen – and what he really thinks of Donald Trump

Marcel Ophuls, Oscar-winning film-maker of The Sorrow and the Pity, dies aged 97

The German-French documentarian, who fled the Nazis twice as a child, spent his career exploring wartime atrocities and conflicts

Sebastião Salgado obituary

One of the world’s greatest documentary photographers fascinated by nature and traditional ways of life

Jafar Panahi’s Cannes victory is a wonderful moment for an amazingly courageous film-maker

Panahi has endured years of harassment from the Iranian authorities but has created a tremendous body of work; his Palme d’Or is richly deserved

Iranian director Jafar Panahi wins Palme d’Or at Cannes for It Was Just an Accident

Panahi, long censored and previously imprisoned in his home country, took top prize as Sentimental Value and The Secret Agent also honoured

‘A case study on psychosis’: men on why Tim Robinson’s Friendship feels a little too real

‘I was so incredibly uncomfortable,’ one man said of watching the new cringe comedy starring Robinson and Paul Rudd

Hush over Hollywood: why has it become so hard to make films in Los Angeles?

The drop in productions is causing alarm. Can Tinseltown halt the exodus and reclaim its spot as the home of movie-making?

Braveheart at 30: Mel Gibson’s gory, hokey Oscar winner plays like a biblical epic

The 1995 best picture winner is less interested in historical fact and more in rousing fantasy and makes for a telling portrait of its troubled maker

‘They first come for great acts of culture’: Cate Blanchett sets up grant for displaced film-makers

Actor and UN refugee ambassador delivers warning on authoritarian regimes as first five film-makers announced for funding