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September 5 review – taut media procedural revisits Munich Olympics

Journalists take centre stage in Tim Fehlbaum’s tense thriller focusing on 1972’s infamous terrorist massacre through a TV crew lens

‘Fame is a drug like LSD’: Robbie Williams on success, sexuality and his simian movie alter ego

The former Take That star has made a biopic, Better Man, in which he’s played by a CGI chimpanzee. He talks about sex, drugs and the traumatic madness of 90s pop

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang remake in the works

James Bond producers are teaming to re-imagine Ian Fleming’s children’s story, previously adapted in 1968

Fainting, fighting and folk-horror: Florence Pugh’s best films – ranked!

Ahead of the release of We Live in Time next month, we celebrate the filmography of a breakout British star, from Little Women to Lady Macbeth

‘Can we show someone being shot?’: the tense true story behind September 5

The Oscar-tipped drama follows the ABC crew of journalists who had to cover the unfolding violence as terrorism overtook the the Munich Olympics in 1972

Am-dram Alien documentary comes to TV as ‘unintentional pantomime’

Documentary about amateur theatre group’s take on classic horror film made available to wider audience

Kraven the Hunter review – Russell Crowe busts up laborious superhero yarn

Crowe’s safari-going Russian oligarch is the main redeeming feature of this Spider-Man-adjacent tale but there’s not much to like elsewhere

Austin Butler to play Patrick Bateman in Luca Guadagnino’s American Psycho

Oscar-nominated star of Elvis will take on lead role in Challengers director’s take on Bret Easton Ellis’s novel

‘Sexuality is as individual as a fingerprint’: Daniel Craig and Luca Guadagnino on Queer

In their feverish film, Craig plays a man embroiled in a drug-fuelled gay affair. He and director Guadagnino talk about love, ageing – and a forgotten sex act

Sundance 2025: Olivia Colman, Jennifer Lopez and Josh O’Connor lead lineup

Next year’s Utah-based film festival will see world premieres of much-anticipated new titles also starring Benedict Cumberbatch, A$AP Rocky and Rebecca Hall

Emaciated zombie in 28 Years Later is not Cillian Murphy, sources confirm

Rumour that Irish actor returning as a zombie in Danny Boyle’s new film debunked, as art dealer Angus Neill confirmed to be playing role

‘They wouldn’t do this to Shakespeare’: the pioneers of postmodern architecture, as seen by their son

Jim Venturi’s new film follows his parents Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, bringing scrappy wit and colour to chilly modernism as they battle the establishment and wind-up traditionalists at the National Gallery

Elton John: Never Too Late review – few surprises but plenty of joy in official life story

On the eve of his retirement, the much-loved musician revisits his rise to stardom and his evolution as a gay man in a flashback-filled documentary

Jim Carrey came out of retirement for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 because he ‘needed the money’

Actor who plays Dr Robotnik previously said only a ‘script that’s written in gold ink’ would lure him back to the screen

Paul Mescal to star in Beatles film, Ridley Scott appears to confirm

Longstanding rumour on casting as Paul McCartney in Sam Mendes’s big four-part project seems settled after comments by Gladiator II director

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