Sonny Boy: A Memoir by Al Pacino review – a South Bronx miracle
For all his on-set stories of The Godfather, the Oscar-winning actor’s account of his rise to fame is at its most compelling depicting his hardscrabble formative years
Mitzi Gaynor obituary
American actor, singer and dancer who played Nellie Forbush in the 1958 film musical South Pacific
‘The ocean doesn’t care what color I am’: Black US surfers reclaim the waters
As a new documentary illuminates surfing’s African roots, Black people revive their sacred connection to the sport
Woman of the Hour review – Anna Kendrick’s 70s-set true crime thriller is a winner
A serial killer tale unfolds in California’s TV land in the US actor’s fine directorial debut, in which she also stars
‘Emotionally resonant’ animation wins top prize at London film festival
Jury names Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail as best film in first for stop-motion feature
Mikey Madison: from Tarantino bit part to hot tip for an Oscar playing a sex worker
The actor, who stars in Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner Anora, talks about the reaction of the strip club community to the film, how she managed to learn Russian, and her lucky break in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
‘It was to make bank managers less uptight’: the toy that put Newton’s law on executive desks
The eccentric British design firm behind Ballrace, the bestselling shiny 1970s Newton’s cradle, is celebrated in a new book
A planned sequel and a West End musical – but is The Devil Wears Prada out of step with our times?
Attitudes to body standards and corporate exploitation are among themes that look dated in the 2006 smash hit
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things review – vivid portrait of 20th-century artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Mark Cousins’s poetic documentary about the late St Ives-based Scottish artist is among his finest films
Smile 2 review – horribly entertaining fright sequel
Naomi Scott shines as a troubled pop star in Parker Finn’s even more gruesome follow-up
The Wild Robot review – lost-in-the-jungle Roz joins animation’s robot greats
Superbly voiced by Lupita Nyong’o, the star of DreamWorks’ classy adaptation of Peter Brown’s bestseller learns to survive on a harsh, uninhabited island
Composer Max Richter: ‘I’m a low-key raver! I love all kinds of music’
The creator of the most streamed classical album of all time on working with Margaret Atwood, enjoying Eurovision, and uniting people through music
K-pop, K-movies, a Nobel prize … and now K-poetry: book of wise words adds to Korea’s cultural glory
After Han Kang’s Nobel award and South Korean cinema hits, Penguin publishes new English edition of maxims by Lee Seong-bok in wake of US success
The Apprentice review – Jeremy Strong is the Trump card in measured biopic of the Donald
The Succession star chills as US lawyer Roy Cohn opposite Sebastian Stan as his grasping protege Donald Trump in Ali Abbasi’s intriguing drama
‘Does time heal? I don’t think so’: Richard E Grant on love, loss – and bonking
The raw intensity and personal honesty that Richard E Grant brought to Withnail and I was real and has never left him. Now the actor and diarist, still grieving the loss of his wife, talks openly about heartbreak, ambition and his traumatic upbringing