Oscar-winning animator Adam Elliot: ‘Why does everything have to be Disney?’

The Australian filmmaker of Harvie Krumpet and Mary and Max has long cherished the deadly and deadpan. His latest stars Sarah Snook as a collector of ornamental snails – and draws from a family history of hoarding

Forget the f-words, ignore the erections: how did an entire plane collectively choose to watch Daddio?

When individual screens went down, travellers on a Sydney to Tokyo flight voted not to watch The Fall Guy or Inside Out 2 but a drama that is mostly Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn chatting in a taxi

In Her Place review – true-crime drama of a court worker fascinated by author in the dock

Based on a real murder in Chile in the 1950s, Maite Alberdi’s fictional story of obsession has glamour and style, but no intensity

Take Cover review – Scott Adkins hitman thriller makes Fast & Furious look like Gilbert and Sullivan

Adkins’ veteran hitman goes against all action movie wisdom to accept ‘one last job’ – and promptly gets trapped in a hotel room and shot at

Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot review – Sound of Freedom followup is a test of faith

Based on remarkable work in a small Texan community to adopt children considered ‘too difficult’ to foster, the film gets lost in saccharine cliche

Portraits of Dangerous Women review – dog car crash sets off baffling and peculiar drama

Three unlikely women are pitched together by a muddled plot with results that are short on both drama and comedy

Qantas apologises after R-rated movie played to passengers on Sydney to Tokyo flight

Technical issues meant the film, starring Dakota Johnson, was played on all screens before it was swapped for a family-friendly movie

Al Pacino reveals he almost died of Covid – and delivers his verdict on the afterlife

The 84-year-old actor speaks about contracting the virus in 2020, saying he ‘didn’t have a pulse’ and came to with six paramedics in his house

Motherboard to Nightbitch: maternity in spotlight at London film festival

Festival, which begins on Wednesday, is screening bounty of films focused on motherhood and its challenges

The Battle for Laikipia review – clash over Kenyan land is essential viewing

The smouldering conflict between the Samburu community and European settlers is captured in an arrestingly shot, shrewdly edited documentary

Traffic wardens issue tickets for vehicles on Daniel Day-Lewis film set

Tickets placed on 1980s prop vehicles after Chester council refused to close road for filming of actor’s comeback movie

Maya and the Wave review – spotlight on the Brazilian surfer triumphing over a riptide of sexism

Breathtaking footage of Maya Gabeira invigorates a crowd-pleasing doc about her breakthrough in a world of fragile male egos

‘My disability is the least interesting thing about me’: Actor Adam Pearson on fame, film and his sibling rivalry

Actor Adam Pearson feels disfigurement onscreen is often presented as a problem. He sees it very differently. He talks about karaoke in Croydon, rivalry with his twin, Oscar ambitions – and why his mum refuses to believe he’s famous

Joker: Folie à Deux review – Lady Gaga electrifies in mediocre musical sequel

Love is in the air for Joaquin Phoenix’s clown prince of chaos in this bold but indulgent comic book musical – lifted by Gaga’s weapons-grade charisma

A Different Man review – beauty is skin deep in a surreal dramedy

Sebastian Stan excels as a facially disfigured actor whose life is transformed in Aaron Schimberg’s mordant oddity