‘One of the most stunning sights in the country’: your picks for UK town of culture

From pirates and skateboarders in Hastings to legends and locks in Devizes, from dolphins in Scarborough to the ‘artists’ town’ of Kirkcudbright, readers put forward their favourite places

Amazon pulls Melania from Oregon cinema after owner’s criticism as rumours mount over ‘fake ticket sales’

Owner of local cinema says Amazon is upset at way they marketed movie as some in US say healthy ticket sales are not reflected by empty seats

‘I’m so co-o-old’: ahead of Wuthering Heights, the 20 best films with dreadful weather – ranked!

As we don our oilskins for the release of Emerald Fennell’s rain-lashed romance, we count down the films pitting their stars against the elements

Emerald Fennell hopes Wuthering Heights will ‘provoke a primal response’

Speaking in conversation at the BFI Southbank in London, the director of the much-anticipated Brontë adaptation also revealed that Margot Robbie asked to play Cathy

Hollywood money fuelled record £2.8bn spend on UK film production last year

Growth could slow as Netflix pulls back projects to US to secure $80bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery

From Jay Kelly to Wicked 2: the Oscar-primed films that fizzled this season

It was a great year for Sinners and One Battle After Another but films with megastars like George Clooney, Julia Roberts and The Rock all struggled

‘I don’t want to do the same thing over and over’: Stacy Martin on risky roles, tequila at the Oscars and her Jurassic Park dream

After experiencing the strangeness of the Academy Awards with her last film The Brutalist, the indie actor has reunited with its creators for period curio The Testament of Ann Lee. But what she’d really like to get her teeth into is a certain dino franchise

Hamlet review – Riz Ahmed’s tortured prince drives chilling modern take through London’s streets

Timothy Spall and Art Malik co-star in Aneil Karia’s intelligent and stark retelling of Shakespeare’s tragedy, set in the world of shady family business

Michelle Obama documentary rises 13,000% in views as Melania film opens

Becoming garners 47.5m minutes viewed on same weekend as current first lady’s documentary released in cinemas

Melania is a rubbish film. Of course the man who defunded the arts loves it

The documentary premiered at the Kennedy Center. Three days later, the president announced he was shutting it down

Goofy! Pouty! Unvampy! With nine films on the go, can Charli xcx act?

She’s the edgy British brat who conquered the world with her hard-partying, electro-banging aesthetic. But can the star now go where Beyoncé and Harry Styles stumbled – and smash the silver screen?

Relationship Goals review – Kelly Rowland and Method Man flirt through breezy romcom

The Valentine’s Day offerings begin with Amazon’s fast-paced, millennial-coded film that’s a fun enough watch even if its messaging is a little suspect

‘One moment it was a little blip. The next, our friends are dying’: the gay porn soundtrack composers lost to the Aids crisis

Gay porn in the 80s was home to beautifully moody synth music that is only now getting rediscovered – tragically too late for many of its creators

Trump 2.0 is proving a challenge for Hollywood – just look at this deeply silly new thriller

Anniversary depicts a rightwing takeover of the US inspired by a book of essays. But it’s fuzzy on the bits in between, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

REM x Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr review – classic comedy gets new alt-rock soundtrack

Keaton’s wild invention doesn’t gain much by adding indie guitars, but if they can bring a new audience to this silent classic, who’s listening?