Food for Thought review – breezy documentary makes a light meal of vegan debates
Peppy look at the rise of plant-based diets skates around the planet from Los Angeles to South Africa but doesn’t really pause to sift through the stats
Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods review – classic anime has cosmic charm
An anniversary edition of the 2013 martial arts animation is light on bombast, funny and mischievous
Indian cinema chain sued by film-goer over lengthy pre-film ads
Court orders compensation to be paid to 30-year-old from Bangalore, saying ‘in the new era, time is considered as money, each one’s time is very precious’
UK ministers consider changing AI plans to protect creative industries
Exclusive: partial climbdown over use of work protected by copyright considered after intense lobbying by top artists
Tony Kinsey obituary
Drummer, bandleader and composer who was a leading figure in the world of postwar British jazz
Oscars 2025: best director nominees – reviews, interviews and chances for victory
All you need to know about the five directors in the running for the Academy’s prestigious film-making prize, along with reviews of their nominated films, interviews and the awards they’ve earned so far
David Wenham on the return of Johnny ‘Spit’ Spitieri: ‘Every second day someone comes up to talk about him’
Twenty-two years after Gettin’ Square became a cult favourite, the actor is back in the thongs and in court for Spit – ‘one of the happiest creative periods’ of his life
The Brutalist is about a great architect. Columbus is a heartfelt tribute to great architecture
This critically acclaimed drama about how spaces can haunt and heal us is the finest work of John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson and director Kogonada’s careers
The play that changed my life: Sing Sing’s Clarence Maclin on lessons from Sophocles in prison
Staging Shakespeare and Twelve Angry Men with fellow prisoners was a revelation but Oedipus Rex proved particularly poignant
There’s a reason Hugh Grant is the best thing in middling movies: he writes his own lines
The actor’s insistence on scripting his own scenes in Paddington 3 and Bridget Jones 4 are proof of his talents. So why on earth hasn’t he written his own film yet?
Papa review – brutal family murder is backdrop for study of parental culpability
Sean Lau is tremendously subtle as a Hong Kong man whose own son brutally murders his wife and daughter
Why The Substance should win the best picture Oscar
Yucky body horror and preposterous plotting make this tale of futuristic anti-ageing tech a wildly unlikely winner. But its imagery will be indelible well after the baubles are forgotten
We Will Not Fade Away review – study of five Ukrainian teens’ brief escape from war
Shot in 2019, Alisa Kovalenko’s moving film follows the friends after they win a competition to travel to the Himalayas
‘Vital and essential’: the film paying tribute to the weird world of NBA Twitter
Memes and Nightmares is an unconventional, offbeat documentary that acts as a love letter to an online community brought together by basketball
Cold Wallet review – blackly comic revenge fable goes into crypto’s corrupt heart
Fickle financial dealings leave a man and his friends in debt, prompting them to go in search of the slippery crypto king responsible and hold him to account