Super spicy! Jack Black’s Minecraft song Steve’s Lava Chicken becomes shortest ever UK Top 40 hit
At 34 seconds, the spectacularly silly song from A Minecraft Movie beats the previous record by two seconds
JK Rowling’s journey from Harry Potter creator to gender-critical campaigner
Doyenne of children’s literature has regularly utilised social media in support of women-only spaces
Pink smoke, pigs and Pixar: a dozen movie Easter eggs to feast on
Hidden references and in-jokes in cinema can be an acquired taste, but here’s a festive selection of the best arch nods for aficionados to enjoy
Ryan Gosling standalone Star Wars film confirmed
Due out in 2027, Starfighter will be directed by Deadpool & Wolverine’s Shawn Levy and will be separate from the nine-film Skywalker franchise
‘No thought given to the human being’: Ben Affleck says he hated his ‘horrendous’ Batman suit
The actor, who took on the role in 2016 for box office let-down Batman v Superman, said the uncomfortable costume ‘made it difficult to make the movie’
Who are the brains behind Succession brought in for HBO’s Harry Potter?
Francesca Gardiner and Mark Mylod to be executive producers alongside JK Rowling, who praised their ‘genuine passion’ for the books
Boot camp, matching tattoos and mutual head-shaving: Kit Connor, Will Poulter and Michael Gandolfini on making Warfare
Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s film recounts the ordeal of US troops trapped in Iraq. Here, ex-Navy Seal Mendoza, who was one of the soldiers, discusses how the movie was made with his troupe of actors
Alicia Silverstone to reprise Clueless role in sequel TV series
The actor will return for a follow-up series on Peacock rejoining the life of Cher Horowitz from the hit 1995 comedy
Karla Sofía Gascón to play psychiatrist who ‘embodies God and the devil’ in next film
Actor to follow Oscar-nominated role in Emilia Pérez with Italian drama described as ‘perturbing, livid and hypnotic’, co-starring Vincent Gallo
The Wedding Banquet review – muddled gay comedy remake plays it too straight
Fire Island director Andrew Ahn’s update of Ang Lee’s seminal 1993 film works hard to differentiate itself but it’s awkwardly stuck between serious and silly
Julie Christie at 85: her 20 best films – ranked!
To celebrate the Oscar-winning actor’s birthday this week, we look back at the highlights of a six-decade career, from early classics such as Doctor Zhivago and Billy Liar to later roles in Finding Neverland and Away From Her
‘I was being a sassy Karen’: Florence Pugh’s skyscraper stunt positions her as the new Tom Cruise
The star’s insistence on jumping from a 2,722ft skyscraper to up the action ante for Thunderbolts* may not be quite enough to save Marvel’s latest. But her career should fly
‘My heart broke’: director Ryan Coogler on mourning Chadwick Boseman, rebooting Black Panther and his new movie Sinners
The highest grossing Black film-maker of all time is known for his superhero movies and reinventing the Rocky franchise. Now he’s made his most personal film yet – and it’s a vampire thriller
‘Apparently, he had a fist fight with King Charles’: the jawdropping life of Luca Prodan, Argentina’s punk god
He was a gin-swilling Scottish-Italian heroin addict who set Argentina’s music scene ablaze – baffling the junta, who would arrest his audiences. As a biopic looms, we look at the fast life and early death of the still-worshipped frontman
The Correspondent review – Richard Roxburgh is excellent as jailed journalist Peter Greste
Based on Greste’s account of his time in an Egyptian prison, this is an important story powerfully told