Where to start with: Hanif Kureishi
It seemed the writer would have to retire after a devastating fall in 2022. But now, approaching 70, he has been more creative than ever. Here’s how you can get to know his work
The Silent Hour review – intriguing cat-and-mouse thriller with deaf protagonists
Our heroes have an unexpected advantage over their murderous pursuers in The Machinist director Brad Anderson’s shadowy crime drama
‘Activates my lizard brain’: why Alita: Battle Angel is my feelgood movie
In a new series of writers revealing their go-to comfort film, an unlikely action flop gets a stirring recommendation
Two of a Kind review – Ghanaian summit meeting of the sexes in cleared-out luxury hotel
Three couples navigate marital strife at an empty resort in heavy-handed relationship drama
Wicked director tells audience members to ask cinemas to turn up the volume
Jon M Chu encouraged fans to take their audio experience into their own hands, ahead of the film’s opening weekend
La Ricerca review – paean to man who uses stone to make sense of the world
Reverential documentary reveals how Luigi Lineri has dedicated his life to creating a temple of rock
Kaya Scodelario on Skins, scares and sex scenes: ‘I was called an English rose – it really pissed me off’
She became famous in the late 00s as Effy in Skins, and now she’s back in Netflix drama Senna. She talks about growing up poor in London, why she loves doing action films – and the pitfalls of taking her kids to work
Eileen Diss obituary
Designer of meticulous, poetically imagined sets who collaborated many times with Harold Pinter and won six Baftas
Vic Flick obituary
Guitarist and composer who played the James Bond theme, and later worked with pop stars such as Paul McCartney and Shirley Bassey
Bread & Roses review – astonishingly brave documentary about Afghan women under the Taliban
Using guerilla tactics, Sahra Mani’s film follows activists campaigning at huge risk to themselves for basic rights in the fundamentalist regime
‘The Bowie of his era’: new biopic charts wild life of cross-dressing Victorian peer
Madfabulous explores story of flamboyant 19th-century marquess of Anglesey, and offers an ‘overdue celebration’ of his life
Snow Leopard review – striking Tibetan drama about one big cat’s fate
A rare snow leopard becomes the centre of a tense family dispute in the late Pema Tseden’s final film
Wrestler, film star – and future president? Why we should all take Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson seriously
The WWE icon, already one of Hollywood’s highest-paid film stars, has shown himself to be ‘focus group-proof’
Richard Linklater: ‘I’ve always had that French new wave notion – that a film should be an extension of your life’
The American director on the 20-year project he is just beginning, how hitmen don’t exist in real life and why his career would not be possible today
‘I felt like I was a made man’: Stephen Graham on working with his childhood heroes
One of Britain’s most prolific actors, Stephen Graham is the face of countless hard-to-forget TV and film characters, a regular Scorsese collaborator and good mates with Leo DiCaprio. He talks about living it up in Leicestershire – and why he’s in the shape of his life