Epic win: why the Odyssey is having a moment
With new translations, a film starring Ralph Fiennes and a Christopher Nolan blockbuster on the way, Homer’s saga about a soldier’s return from battle speaks to our times in unexpected ways
Streaming: The Last Showgirl and the best Las Vegas films
Gia Coppola’s drama starring Pamela Anderson peers behind the glamour of ‘the fun capital of the world’, but sin city has long seduced film-makers…
Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story to Twisters: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
A sobering feature-length documentary chronicles the life of the singer, actor and activist’s life, plus an action-stuffed remake of a beloved 90s classic
From The Return to The Last of Us: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche reunite for an ancient Greek yarn, while the dystopian video game adaptation powers up for a second series
Almost a third of UK independent cinemas say they are at risk
Exclusive: Survey by the Independent Cinema Office shows urgent need for capital investment in sector
‘There was always a male gaze behind it’: Madrid exhibition rewrites cliches of Latina artists
Show looks beyond tropes of exoticism, hyper-sexuality and diva behaviour to how stars gained control of their own image
Tom Hunsinger obituary
Other lives: Actor with the Cherub theatre company who co-wrote and co-directed three films and taught at Rada
Bella Thorne accuses Mickey Rourke of bruising her genitals on movie set
Actor claims working with Oscar nominee on set of thriller Girl is ‘one of the all time worst experiences’ of her life
‘I’ll tackle Rox if he tries to go to Egypt’: Richard Roxburgh, Peter Greste and 400 days in a Cairo prison
Greste’s harrowing experience of the Egyptian legal system is brought to the screen in The Correspondent, which takes its audience far beyond the familiar nightly news bulletins of 2014
‘A collective sigh of relief’: how Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain went down in Poland
Eisenberg’s Holocaust-heritage comedy-drama was a big hit in the country where it is set – though some have questioned its lack of engagement with locals. Historians, critics and heritage tour guides give us their thoughts
‘You must read my diaries’: unlocking the private life of Edna O’Brien
Towards the end of her life, the groundbreaking Irish novelist granted film-maker Sinéad O’Shea access to her most personal writing. What she revealed was shocking and inspiring
The original Star Wars is back – but what if George Lucas is right about it not being much good?
After 48 years, the 1977 theatrical cut of the movie is set to screen again this summer. It will surely look rather different this time round
‘Too original for just one medium’: Agnès Varda’s Paris photographs go on show
Esteemed film-maker Varda began work as a photographer, capturing the postwar freedom of Paris, where a new exhibition presents her as a vital part of the city’s creative history
Marty at 70: the underdog best-picture winner remains hard to resist
Ernest Borgnine is a butcher looking for love in a compassionate Paddy Chayefsky-scripted slice of life that still resonates
Melbourne cinema says threats caused it to cancel fundraising screening of Oscar-winning Palestinian displacement film
Exclusive: Jewish Council of Australia says it was told there were protests planned against the screening of No Other Land in Elsternwick