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Enrico Berlinguer: the 1970s communist hero inspiring Italy’s youth – and the far right

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni among those admiring Berlinguer as new film and exhibitions celebrate his role as a unifier

Endurance review – search for Shackleton’s Antarctic wreck overshadowed by history

Shackleton’s truly perilous 1915 ordeal – gussied up with colourised footage and AI voices – minimises the stakes of a 2022 hunt for its remains by Dan Snow and friends

Salem’s Lot review – anaemic adaptation of Stephen King’s 70s vampire novel

Don’t expect any deeper themes in Gary Dauberman’s clunking take on the US writer’s much-adapted small-town horror

On my radar: Evan Dando’s cultural highlights

The Lemonheads musician on crazy websites, cosy restaurants and a bar where it’s always Christmas

Jigra review – Alia Bhatt is lethal and luminous in sibling jailbreak thriller

Bhatt plays a woman trying to spring her brother from prison in a fictional East Asian state, after he is framed by their rich-kid cousins

Dance Umbrella: Mamela Nyamza: Hatched Ensemble; The Featherstonehaughs Draw on the Sketchbooks of Egon Schiele – review

This year’s festival opens with a formally rigorous work from the South African choreographer and a film premiere from Lea Anderson

Streaming: Kneecap and the best hip-hop movies

The Belfast rappers’ riotous semi-biopic adds an Irish-language twist to a sub-genre that ranges from 8 Mile and Straight Outta Compton to Patti Cake$

Salem’s Lot to Rivals: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Stephen King’s classic vampire horror is resurrected, and Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster book gets the Disney treatment

No time to film: are James Bond’s Hollywood paymasters holding out for a gen-Z 007?

With Amazon MGM and Barbara Broccoli in no hurry to rush their man back into service, by the time agent next hits the screen he might be unrecognisable to anyone over 25

Woman of the Hour to The Radleys: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Anna Kendrick directs and stars in the chilling true-life tale of a woman who goes on a dating show with a bachelor who is also a serial killer. Plus: Damian Lewis’s very bloody vampire horror

‘It feels very personal’: Anna Kendrick on coercion, not wanting children and making a movie about dating a killer

She became a Hollywood star despite enduring industry misogyny and an abusive relationship. Now, she has poured her experiences into her directorial debut

Lonely Planet review – Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth heat up beach-read travel romance

A novelist meets a financier two decades her junior at a writers’ retreat in Morocco, in this welcome addition to a flurry of age-gap romances released this summer

Superboys of Malegaon review – boisterous heartwarmer about movie-loving underdogs

Inspired by a true story, this feelgood Indian film is about some Bollywood superfans making their own movies with a cheeky but admirable DIY ethos

BFI apologises to film-maker over racial discrimination complaint

CEO Ben Roberts admits Faisal Qureshi has been ‘let down’ after report finds his complaint was badly handled

New images show remarkable state of preservation of Ernest Shackleton’s ship

Composite images of Endurance compiled from 25,000 digital scans mapped by underwater robots

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