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Same old stories: is this going to be Hollywood’s laziest year ever?

New trailers for Fantastic Four, Smurfs and Jurassic World movies give us an early glimpse at a summer that’s looking even more tired than usual

‘I’ve never had a cinematic experience like it’: readers’ memories of Prince Charles Cinema

As the much-loved cinema faces the threat of closure, six cinemagoers reminisce about their favourite moments at the film institution

Joan Lindsay by Brenda Niall review – a poignant biography of the Picnic at Hanging Rock author

Lindsay was 71 when her gothic classic was published. A new book unearths the winding, often thwarted creative endeavours of her life – and delights in her late success

From Alice to Zelig via Rosemary’s Baby: Mia Farrow’s 20 best films – ranked!

As the Hollywood royal turns 80, we remember her greatest film roles that include an acting masterclass in Full Circle and a heartbreaking turn in The Purple Rose of Cairo

Makeup artist tried to remove Adrien Brody’s nose by mistake on set of The Brutalist

Actor says nose mistaken for prosthetic by new makeup artist, who he then informed that it ‘doesn’t come off’

BBC and ITV slash big-budget TV spend as US streamers pour money into UK

Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky also among UK broadcasters making cuts as Netflix, Disney and Amazon pile on pressure

Zoe Saldaña speaks out about Karla Sofía Gascón controversy: ‘We are responsible for everything we say’

Saldaña says ‘never in a million years did I believe that we would be here’ amid Oscars storm over Emilia Pérez star’s Islamophobic social media posts

Becoming Led Zeppelin review – enjoyable retrospective will be met with a Whole Lotta Love

It’s hard not to head-bang along to the first authorised documentary about the heavy rock legends, but stopping the story in 1969 ignores the band’s more colourful years

‘How often do you see Palestinian stories in fiction?’: the film-maker trying to adjust our focus

After a career making documentaries, Mahdi Fleifel has created To a Land Unknown, a feature film about the refugee experience

Elektra review – Brie Larson makes a fearless West End debut in punk tragedy

The Captain Marvel star is a magnetic frontwoman in Daniel Fish’s radical rewiring of the ancient play

Emilia Pérez director criticises Karla Sofia Gascón’s ‘inexcusable’ tweets

Oscar nominee Jacques Audiard has called the social media behaviour of the actor ‘hateful’ in a new interview

Architecture film sparks new call to list Southbank Centre

Twentieth Century Society wants London landmark to get listed status with brutalism in Oscars spotlight

The Seed of the Sacred Fig review – Mohammad Rasoulof’s arresting tale of violence and paranoia in Iran

The exiled director’s story of officialdom’s misogyny and theocracy in his home country may be flawed, but its importance is beyond doubt

Take That and Jeff Goldblum to perform at Bafta awards

The boyband will sing their 2008 hit Greatest Day, which features in nominated drama Anora, while Wicked star Goldblum will play piano for the in memoriam section

Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles review – sex, secrets and the unbearable silence of loneliness

A 50th-anniversary release for Chantal Akerman’s meticulous masterpiece, voted the best film of all time by Sight and Sound

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