Mark Kermode on… composer John Williams, master of unforgettable blockbuster soundtracks

From his killer two-note Jaws riff to the sheer uplift of Star Wars, Williams captures a movie’s essence with tunes that stick. Now the Hollywood great is celebrated in a Disney+ documentary

From Anora to The Day of the Jackal: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

A Palme d’Or-winning comedy, and Eddie Redmayne is a dapper contract killer in a slick new Frederick Forsyth adaptation

Juror #2: the curious case of the missing Clint Eastwood film

The 40th film directed by the 94-year-old is only being shown in 50 cinemas in the US. Why is Warners burying a movie by one of its most decorated stars?

Alien: Romulus thrilled fans – how can its follow-up avoid the saga’s past mistakes?

As Romulus shows, the series is best when it keeps to its slasher-in-space formula – anything more and the old beast starts creaking like a colony ship

Post your questions for Elizabeth Hurley

What would you ask the British star of film and TV, and patron saint of safety pins?

‘I wanted those 828 men not to be forgotten’: the Chinese documentary raising wartime ghosts

The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru – rejected earlier this week as China’s official Oscars contender – recounts a terrible and forgotten tragedy. Director Fang Li explains why, 80 years on, the story still arouses fierce passions

The Holdovers to Airplane! The seven best films to watch on TV this week

Alexander Payne’s melancholy masterpiece is witty and bittersweet, and Leslie Nielsen’s 80s spoof classic is brilliantly ridiculous

‘Downright terrifying’: readers on their scariest horror villains

After Guardian writers listed their most nightmarish baddies for Halloween, now it’s our readers’ turn

Three producers suing Rebel Wilson seek to delay case to investigate who is behind website that published ‘grotesque lies’

Australian actor in US defamation court fight after claiming on Instagram the producers had engaged in theft, bullying and sexual misconduct – claims which they deny as ‘false and malicious’

‘She doubled down on danger’: Lucy Lawless on making a movie about a real-life warrior princess

Margaret Moth, who was shot in the face while covering the Bosnian war, was wild, heroic and sexually adventurous – the perfect subject, Lawless says, for her directorial debut

Avengers stars assemble to endorse Kamala Harris – by brainstorming an election catchphrase

Actors Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Don Cheadle, Chris Evans, Danai Gurira and Paul Bettany appear in video, released days before the US election

Paul Morrissey obituary

Film director whose close collaboration with Andy Warhol included the trilogy Flesh, Trash and Heat

‘A revelation and a joy’: Mike Leigh pays tribute to cinematographer Dick Pope

Pope, who died this month, worked on every film Leigh has made since 1990. It was a professional partnership of ‘total harmony’, says the director

Martha Stewart criticises Netflix film that ‘makes me look like a lonely old lady’

US businesswoman and TV personality objects that she granted director RJ Cutler ‘total access’ but he focused too heavily on her trial and didn’t put Snoop Dogg on the soundtrack

Listen Up! review – tonally jarring comedy on multicultural integration and teenage trans identity

This curate’s egg of a film’s crude humour feels somewhat at odds with the big issues it’s exploring, even if doing so more or less sympathetically