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Welcome to the new era of midlife lust! I need a lie down …

Anne Hathaway, Nicole Kidman and Miranda July are showing us middle age can be full of sexual energy. So why do I feel so fatigued, asks Emma Beddington

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story review – respectful documentary gives the full picture

From his breakthrough roles to his life-changing accident, this rounded film portrays the courage and resilience of the late film star

Juror #2 review – you want far-fetched? Try Clint Eastwood’s 12 Angry Men remake

Nicholas Hoult plays a murder trial jury member who knows more than he should in the veteran director’s dogged courtroom drama

I regret glamorising the Kray twins, says producer of hit film

Ray Burdis looks to set record straight in new production about the notorious gangsters who terrorised 1960s London

Heretic review – Hugh Grant’s move to the dark side is a triumph

Two young missionaries get more than they bargained for in this taut horror menaced by Grant’s devil disguised in comfortable knitwear

‘The flaws are the sexy bits’: Anne-Marie Duff on courage, curiosity and the rare gifts of ageing

Few actors inhabit a character as fully as Anne-Marie Duff, whether it’s Elizabeth I or Lady Macbeth. As the second season of Bad Sisters arrives on our screens, she talks to Eva Wiseman

Anora review – Sean Baker’s screwball Cinderella tale vaults him towards greatness

Mikey Madison is outstanding as an exotic dancer who marries an oligarch’s son in Baker’s fiery and profane Palme d’Or-winning comedy drama

Sunday with Rufus Hound: ‘We’ll throw each other around for hours on end’

The actor explains how he likes to spend the day of rest in bed, watching nonsense on YouTube and playing Mario Kart

Borderlands, Civil War and Scorsese on the Beatles: what’s new to streaming in Australia in November

Plus Ted Danson goes undercover in a nursing home, an Aussie Christmas film with a cute dog, and the skimpy, zany world of Barbarella

Small Things Like These review – Cillian Murphy shines as quiet hero in powerful 80s Ireland morality tale

Claire Keegan’s acclaimed Magdalene laundries novella reaches the big screen in director Tim Mielant’s atmospheric adaptation

The Delights review – in-depth look at rural schoolboys reveals a hidden Argentina

An agro-technical boarding school is the subject of this striking documentary, which offers vignettes of growing pains and childlike wonder

‘I am the industry!’: Keke Palmer on being Hollywood’s queen of content

Singer, gameshow host, podcaster – the actor has built a reputation for doing it all. And with an autobiography/self-help guide coming soon, she’s out to prove there’s nothing wrong with being a jack of all trades

Bill Nighy: I stole complete works of Shakespeare to help me get into drama school

Actor says he took books after applying to acting school to impress a girl, but he now refuses to perform in Bard’s plays

Singham Again – third time around for Ajay Devgn’s supercop leading selection box of star names

The big Diwali release is the latest entry in Rohit Shetty’s ‘Cop Universe’, once again featuring Devgn as the purveyor of supposed nation-saving cool

Alan Bennett at 90: ‘What will people think? I don’t care any more’

In his 10th decade The History Boys writer is as prolific as ever with a war film in the works and a new sex-fuelled novella set in a home for the elderly. He talks about mourning Maggie Smith, turning down a knighthood and what he makes of Donald Trump

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