New Nicole Kidman and Liane Moriarty mystery: what’s new to streaming in Australia in March

Plus a devilishly good new Australian comedy, a thrilling new crime drama helmed by Ridley Scott, and classics including Thelma and Louise and When Harry Met Sally

Oscars telecast ratings fall 7% to 18m viewers

After three consecutive years of growth, viewership fell this year after 2024’s Barbenheimer buzz

Hakeem review – musician’s journey from prison to Glastonbury exudes warmth and sincerity

What you see is what you get with intimate and honest documentary about east London singer-songwriter Hak Baker

Police to interview The Crown actor Khalid Abdalla over Gaza protest

Actor says he has received letter from Met over January march in London, and says right to protest is ‘under attack’

Die Alone review – Carrie-Anne Moss is enigma wrapped in a parka in zombie survival thriller

Our hero Ethan is contending with a strange kind of cyclical amnesia that makes dealing with the flesh-eating undead a good deal harder

Archive of the Future review – mesmerising safari through Vienna’s natural history museum

Joerg Burger’s film, as immersive as a museum visit, lovingly embraces the meticulous labours of the curators and touches on key current questions for the sector

From Parasite to Anora: how Cannes became an Oscars power player

The increasingly international Academy has warmed to more and more Cannes film festival premieres, leaving all eyes on this year’s edition

And the loser is … politics: why was this year’s Oscars so reluctant?

Taking place in the middle of a chaotic time for the US and the world at large, this year’s ceremony was light on statements and devoid of the Trump word entirely

Adrien Brody breaks record for longest ever Oscar acceptance speech

The actor, who won for The Brutalist, spoke for five minutes and forty seconds, beating Greer Garson in 1943

Jubilant Brazilians hail I’m Still Here’s Oscar as landmark in fight for justice

Walter Salles’s dictatorship-era movie turns focus on dark time in country’s history and more recent coup attempt

The main Oscars takeaway? Hollywood is as scared of the world right now as you and I are

Perhaps the Ozempic was making people light-headed, or the stars felt they should stay silent. Either way, there was a notable lack of politics, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Fires, frocks and the president who must not be named: my very weird night in the Oscars cheap seats

After the horror of the LA wildfires and with the world in uproar, some had called for the show not to go on. But up in the mezzanine with the shouty hoi polloi, I saw that hope really does spring eternal here

Oscar winner’s shoutout for London music venue Cafe Oto stuns owner

The Brutalist composer Daniel Blumberg mentioned the experimental music space in his acceptance speech

‘Gangs charged us $200 a night to shoot on their turf’: Walter Hill on making cult film The Warriors

‘It was on its way to becoming a smash hit. Then gangs in various parts of the country clashed outside cinemas – and they began pulling the film’

Russian state propagandists overjoyed at Anora’s Oscar triumph

The film’s five Academy Awards seen as act of normalisation by commentators in country still persecuting critics of its war on Ukraine