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Star Wars original cut to be screened this summer in London

Prospect of seeing 1977 version of film on big screen had become holy grail for fans

Cinemas threaten Minecraft Movie audiences over ‘chicken jockey’ TikTok trend

Incidents reported in UK and US of cheering, shouting and throwing popcorn have prompted cautions to audiences

Derek Jarman: Modern Nature review – a starry and tempestuous tribute

Jessie Buckley, Olly Alexander and Will Young read from the artist and film-maker’s diaries, capturing a life of defiance, joy and vitality

Sexual violence and harassment ‘endemic’ in French entertainment industry, report finds

Attitudes in France ‘barely evolving’ amid ‘collective denial’ years after the #MeToo movement began, according to parliamentary commission

Wake in Fright understood the horrors of Australian booze culture. 50 years on, nothing’s changed

As a sober Australian man, I’ve battled the bottle and I’ve battled the boys. As Ted Kotcheff’s 1971 film knows, there’s no victory in either

Repaired Paddington Bear statue unveiled in Newbury after vandalism

People cheer statue’s return in Berkshire town, while two RAF engineers have been sentenced for offence

Holy Cow review – warmhearted story of smalltown teen turned competition cheesemaker

An 18-year-old from a family of comté-makers is left alone to look after his little sister in Louise Courvoisier’s warm-hearted and optimistic drama

Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter review – kitchen tyrant’s story

Celebrity chef who took Chicago by storm in the 90s and noughties, but at a price, in solid if slightly unsatisfying documentary

Dreamin’ Wild review – Walton Goggins and Casey Affleck are rediscovered 70s rockers in late-life fame drama

Goggins and Affleck play Donnie and Joe Emerson, whose album wins acclaim decades after it was made, but it’s rather a mono film

Minecraft mania: how millions of rowdy kids saved the box office

Video game adaptation broke records over the weekend as reports pour in about chaotic screenings and TikTok trends

The Amateur review – Rami Malek takes action-hero baby steps as CIA analyst out for revenge

Malek gives an eccentric performance as a nerdy agent who wants his superior Laurence Fishburne to retrain him as an assassin

Val Kilmer was electric as Jim Morrison in heroically ridiculous biopic The Doors

The late actor’s sense of mischief and self-doubt offset the bombast in Oliver Stone’s swaggering, staggering 1991 film

Memo to Timothée Chalamet: instead of total-immersion ping pong, maybe take the year off

After years-long Bob Dylan training helped push his awards cred, the actor has done months of heavy table tennis drill for Marty Supreme. He may be missing the point

Demise review – an enjoyably ludicrous throwback to 90s erotic thrillers

A woman plots revenge against her unfaithful husband in this so-bad-it’s-good low-budget drama recalling the likes of Fatal Attraction and The Last Seduction

The Penguin Lessons is the latest film to teach us animals rescue men from loneliness

The comedy, about a curmudgeon played by Steve Coogan and his waddling new friend, joins a subgenre of movies from King Kong to John Wick – in which men are emotionally and socially rescued by animals

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