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I Am Martin Parr review – enjoyable study of tragicomic Britain’s inspired photographer

Valuable documentary on the vigilant genius whose highly coloured 70s and 80s images revealed the white working class as never before

I’m Still Here review – Fernanda Torres’s stoic maternal mask never slips

Emotions hide beneath the surface and horrors lurk behind unseen doors in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated tale of the Brazilian disappeared

Afflicted with liberal angst in the age of Trump? Take a leaf from Bridget Jones’s diary

The new movie wasn’t conceived as an allegory of the current international crisis, but for a generation of fans it works on that level, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

‘Grow up’: Kevin Spacey responds to Guy Pearce’s allegation that he ‘targeted’ him

‘I’ve got nothing to hide’ says Spacey, after the Australian actor said he is attempting to be more candid about his former co-star’s alleged behaviour

‘History was attempted to be buried’: the true story behind Oscar-nominated Nickel Boys

Director RaMell Ross details horrors behind Florida School for Boys that backdropped the moving film adaptation

Cue the pig squeal! How The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s score was stitched back together for its first release

A soundtrack of wildlife, drones and saucepans ensured the 1974 film became truly horrifying. Its co-creator recalls the can-do spirit that made it happen

Julian Holloway, Carry On star and father of Sophie Dahl, dies aged 80

The actor starred in the innuendo-laced comedy films as well as TV sitcoms including Porridge and The Likely Lads

Get Shorty: a madcap, loving spoof of the film biz

Starring John Travolta as a loan shark who lands himself in Hollywood, this noirish satire is pure pastiche. Like its lead, it’s a sucker for the movies

‘He targeted me’: Guy Pearce says he ‘sobbed’ over Kevin Spacey encounters

The Oscar-nominated actor has said he is attempting to be more candid about his former co-star’s alleged behaviour

The Brutalist director Brady Corbet says he has made ‘zero dollars’ from the film

The multi-Oscar-nominated director has said many of his fellow contenders are experiencing similar financial difficulties

‘No micro transactions, no bullshit’: Josef Fares on Split Fiction and the joy of co-op video games

Fares is a refreshingly unpredictable voice, starting as a film director before moving into games; now, he says, working on a movie would be ‘a vacation’

Little Bites review – something wicked this way noms in mum-snacking horror

A single mother is terrorised by an evil entity sapping her lifeforce and threatening her child in this decent horror with a genre fan’s dream cast

‘The most important thing was getting to the truth’: how Claude Lanzmann broke all the rules to create Shoah

French director Guillaume Ribot’s new film shines a light on the making of Lanzmann’s nine-hour Holocaust opus – a tale of obsession, deception and danger

Will Dune: Messiah be Villeneuve’s crowning achievement, or the moment the spice runs dry?

Denis Villeneuve has already done the well-nigh impossible, making two brilliant big-screen versions of Dune, but given the history of sci-fi film sequels, another could be a terrifying sandworm too many

September Says review – intense sisterly bond leads to things getting strange in rural Ireland

There’s a lot to grab your attention here, but strong performances struggle to save Ariane Labed’s adaptation of Daisy Johnson’s novel Sisters

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