Catching Dust review – urbanites and hillbillies clash in confident desert noir

Stuart Gatt’s adventurous debut pitches meathead Clyde and his downtrodden wife Geena against city-dwelling newcomers Andy and Amaya

Alone No More review – touching shaggy dog tale about a stray mutt who rescues a lonely man

Newly retired Kai is a miserable grump who lives alone, until he adopts Piggy, in this honest Hong Kong take on family dynamics and suicide

Actor Dirk Bogarde was ‘disturbed’ by KGB sting warning, declassified files reveal

MI5 told Bogarde in 1971 that he had been identified as ‘practising homosexual’ of interest by Russian spies

Oscar nominations further delayed by wildfires as Grammys and Sundance set to go ahead

Entertainment industry impacted as Critics Choice awards pushed back and Academy cancels nominees luncheon

‘I was waking up five times a night’: how film-maker Mikhail Krichman escaped from Russia

The revered cinematographer was making an apocalyptic musical with Tilda Swinton deep in a salt mine when he realised he had to flee. Can he now save his son?

Marvel is ready to recast Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa in Black Panther. Should they?

The multiverse has made room for a lot of unlikely reinventions, but murmurs that the late actor’s iconic character may be reworked with a new star could prove controversial

Panda Bear in Africa review – bear meets dragon in cross between Lion King and Kung Fu Panda

A panda travels to Africa to save his kidnapped dragon bestie in this bland, animated attempt to imitate some distinguished predecessors

The Girl in the Pool review – spectacularly schlocky hide-a-body murder mystery

Freddie Prinze Jr plays a middle-aged man-boy trying to cover up a death in this thriller that may be saved by the fact that it knows it’s ridiculously silly

‘Watched it about 12 times’: why Notting Hill is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers highlighting their favourite comfort films is a reminder of why Richard Curtis’s west London-set romcom is his greatest

My Stolen Planet review – home-movie bulletins unearths Iran’s forbidden past

Exiled artist Farahnaz Sharifi uses old Super 8 family movies to contrast life before and after the 1979 revolution

Ladies Only review – striking account of sisterhood’s intricacies on the Mumbai metro

Shot in stunning black and white, a tapestry of faces and voices beautifully lays bare the hidden subtleties of Indian women’s emotional lives

‘Long way to go’ on gender parity in film and TV industry, Bafta chair says

Sara Putt cites lack of access and retention in an increasingly precarious industry

‘When I sense something is not right, I am going to protect myself’ – Lucy Liu on success, shame and calling out Bill Murray

The actor soared to fame in the 90s and 00s in Kill Bill, Charlie’s Angels and Ally McBeal – navigating a notorious time for women on set. Now, she returns to Hollywood in Steven Soderbergh’s Presence – and says she’s still not afraid of standing up for herself

‘I was 2cm from being paralysed’: UK stunt artists celebrated with donation to BFI

Gillian Aldam, who is still working at 83, among top names in rare first edition of 1973 register being given to library

The Girl with the Needle review – horribly compelling true crime period drama

A factory worker in 1920s Copenhagen struggles to survive at all costs in Magnus von Horn’s saga featuring a remarkable central performance from Vic Carmen Sonne