Oscars ratings in US dip to four-year low, defying expectations
Hopes that Sinners and One Battle After Another would bring in a big audience dashed as viewers fell to 17.9m, a 9% drop on last year’s 19.7m
Arco review – Natalie Portman and Mark Ruffalo lead rainbow-hued eco animation
Portman and Ruffalo join the English voice cast of this film about a time-travelling boy from Earth’s drowned future and a girl with a robot nanny
Sean Penn receives ‘Oscar’ made from damaged Ukrainian rail carriage after Zelenskyy meeting
The actor skipped Academy Awards ceremony to travel to Ukraine, where he was presented with alternative prize
Abode review – Irish quintet of linked short films burrows deep into stereotypes
The humour falls flat, the twists are weak, the plotlines are absurd and it’s soaked in booze and gambling. The only thing that saves this film are the actors’ performances
Apnas review – slick British-Asian crime drama mixes family tensions with familiar thrills
A Manchester-set tale of money laundering and divided loyalties pairs slick visuals with well-worn genre beats, an engaging if uneven stab at a sweeping gangster epic
The Land of Sometimes review – starry voices lend a hand in patchy fantasy adventure
Ewan McGregor and Helena Bonham Carter lead an impressive cast in this magical tale – but its focus on two unlikable young protagonists proves wearing
‘Fear is good’: my scary subterranean journey into Underland, the film of Robert Macfarlane’s dazzling book
As the hit travelogue about the worlds beneath us becomes a film, its maker takes us on a voyage through Las Vegas storm drains and the caves of Yucatán – via Goatchurch Cavern in the bowels of Somerset
War, inheritance and … a baby? First Dune: Part Three trailer is here
The final instalment in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi trilogy brings back Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya and Florence Pugh and introduces a nasty new villain
‘It’s going to upset the balance’: how will Paramount buying Warner Bros change Hollywood?
Warner Bros might have swept the Oscars with Sinners and One Battle After Another, but the impending merger has those in the industry worried about the future
Oscars Academy ‘extremely upset’ by Teyana Taylor’s treatment by ‘very rude’ security guard
The response follows social media footage of the One Battle After Another actor remonstrating with a member of security during the ceremony
Warner Bros CEO David Zaslav in line for $700m payout from Paramount deal
One of the best-paid executives in Hollywood has already made $113m after selling shares in WBD this month
The Last Supper review – not much meat on the bones at Jesus’s famous final meal
Undemanding retelling of Jesus’s choice miracles, breaking bread at dinner and the subsequent crucifixion and resurrection ticks basic boxes but offers no depth
Len Deighton obituary
Writer whose ‘anti-Bond’ hero in his 1962 novel The Ipcress File had a seismic impact on spy fiction
‘I have more to say’: Jane Fonda questions why Barbra Streisand fronted Oscars tribute to Robert Redford
Fonda, who was in four films with Redford, playfully asked why the singer was chosen to give the in memoriam speech for the late actor
Wild Swimmers review – rickety low-budget horror finds something to worry about in the water
In Ric Rawlins’ West Country vampire film, a student journalist investigates mysteries below the surface of River Avon