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Restless Natives: The Musical review – rambling remake sings different tune to cult 80s movie

Two working-class lads become modern-day highwaymen in this adaptation of the Scottish film but the plentiful songs slow down the story

Slade in Flame review – Midlands glam rockers offer A Hard Day’s Night meets Get Carter

The 1975 musical satire is a curious amalgam of madcap comedy and Brit realism as the band ride the giddy highs and brutal lows of the 70s music industry

Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade review – reverential reminiscence takes its time

There’s potentially too many run-of-the-mill I-met-Lennon anecdotes from talking heads and fans, but enough wheat among the chaff to keep things interesting

‘It’s just a book’: Wuthering Heights casting director defends choice of Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi

Kharmel Cochrane responded to criticism of both actors’ ages and of Elordi’s ethnicity being unfaithful to Emily Brontë’s novel, saying ‘wait until you see the set design’

Thunderbolts* review – Florence Pugh is saving grace of Marvel’s hit-and-miss mess

The Oscar nominated actor is the most impressive member of a ragtag Suicide Squad-esque team in an often charmingly unusual yet still baggy adventure

Woman in uniform: Jamie Lee Curtis plays a troubled, morally murky cop in Blue Steel

Kathryn Bigelow’s tale of a rookie officer forced to take justice into her own hands is deceptively subversive – and delightfully sleazy

The Smashing Machine: Dwayne Johnson fights for an Oscar in first trailer

Actor makes major dramatic bid as UFC fighter Mark Kerr in biopic also starring his Jungle Cruise co-star Emily Blunt

‘If I kissed some man, I would cut my lips off’: Terrence Howard explains why he declined Marvin Gaye biopic

The American actor told Bill Maher’s podcast that he had asked Quincy Jones about the singer’s sexuality and felt he couldn’t ‘play that character 100%’

Conclave director signs Brad Pitt for long-awaited adaptation of The Riders

Edward Berger will helm the Ridley Scott-produced screen version of the 1994 novel by Tim Winton, which has been in development in various incarnations for 25 years

Pedro Almodóvar attacks Trump as ‘catastrophe’ in New York speech

Spanish director compared the US president to Franco and said he wondered whether it was appropriate to visit country while he is in power

Where Dragons Live review – reflections on family life in an extraordinary setting

In this warm documentary, three siblings clear out their enormously grand childhood home in Oxfordshire where among the happy memories are those of cruelty

The Life of Sean DeLear review – loving film about queer black punk rocker, and secret legend

Sweet documentary about Sean DeLear, of LA punk band Glue, who never landed a major record deal but was famous among celebrities

Miami Vice: new movie on the way from Top Gun: Maverick director

Detectives Crockett and Tubbs are set to return in a new big screen take on the 80s cop show from Joseph Kosinski

Going for Goldblum: fans flock to Jurassic Park star Jeff in London

Hollywood actor sells T-shirts and jazz albums on concert tour of London

‘I wish I’d never written that damn movie’: Rust director Joel Souza on finishing his film after the fatal on-set shooting

He was hit by the same bullet that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The film-maker talks about his hopes for his western, his complicated feelings towards star Alec Baldwin – and why the industry hasn’t learned

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