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Wicked, A Complete Unknown and Shôgun lead Screen Actors Guild nominations

This year’s SAG noms see a strong showing for music-led films while Nicole Kidman, Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie are snubbed

Celebrities among thousands to flee homes as Los Angeles wildfires rage

Blazes devastate affluent Pacific Palisades with more than 30,000 people under evacuation orders

Maria review – Angelina Jolie’s Callas commands the screen as a great diva in decline

Pablo Larraín’s strange and mordant drama portrays Callas’s haughty struggle as her voice begins to fail but her stardom remains undimmed

A Real Pain review – Jesse Eisenberg’s sauntering Holocaust tour comedy is a masterpiece

The writer, director and actor effortlessly walks a tonal tightrope in this film about Jewish American cousins on a Holocaust tour in Poland. But Kieran Culkin steals the show as the more mischievous cousin

Awards success of cartel boss musical Emilia Pérez prompts outrage in Mexico

The film about Mexico has just one main actor who is Mexican, and Mexicans say it’s heavy with stereotypes and treats violence with frivolity

Babygirl review – Nicole Kidman sex-positive erotic thriller fails to bring the menace

Kidman’s CEO submits to Harris Dickinson’s hot intern in an age-gap drama that lacks any real danger or transgressive bite

Pepe review – inside the beautiful mind of Pablo Escobar’s hippo

Huge and wayward docu-fictional meditation depicts the consciousness of a river horse shipped out to furnish the Colombian druglord’s estate

Bristol Old Vic theatre school to stop its undergraduate courses

Renowned drama school says ‘unprecedented funding challenges’ make degrees unviable from September 2025

Twin Peaks: The Return – a worthy reboot of David Lynch’s oddball masterpiece

In the third season, Lynch and co-creator Mark Frost unleash their unique vision in all its surreal glory; the result is strange, sometimes excruciating – but always compelling

Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties: The Bubbles and the Shitrockers Story review – goofs on tour

Trailer Park Boys spinoff sends the eccentric musos – and a vanload of cats – off around Europe with predictably uncertain results

The Damned review – atmospheric period chiller twists the knife on Iceland fishers

Mysterious deaths befall members of an isolated 19th-century fishing community after they choose not to aid the survivors of a shipwreck

From F1 to Mickey 17: the 2025 films Guardian writers are most excited about

New films from Paul Thomas Anderson and Kelly Reichardt with stars including George Clooney, Michaela Coel and Cate Blanchett will premiere this year

Get Away review – Nick Frost ramps up the ridiculousness in comedy horror

An almighty twist and a demented finale rescue the Shaun of the Dead actor’s cartoonish homage to folk horrors – but co-star Aisling Bea deserves better

Street Trash review – grisly remake of cult horror sends exploding corpses to South Africa

A gang of homeless misfits fight for survival in this dull reboot of the 1987 American horror film

Zendaya and Tom Holland might be engaged – and of course people are being normal about it

Zendaya appeared on the Golden Globes red carpet wearing a diamond the size of a Quality Street chocolate. Cue internet hysteria

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