‘I can’t do gore and I’m not a gamer’: Ella Purnell on being an unlikely scream queen

From Yellowjackets to Fallout and now murderous new drama Sweetpea, the British actor is killing it. But behind all the grisly roles, she’s really sweet ... honest

Die Before You Die review – stunt vlogger goes under in buried-alive survival thriller

A braggart absorbed in writing his own online legend with feats of strength can’t carry off being shoved underground for a spiritual experience

‘I’m fine with people bashing us’: inside the controversial Trump biopic

The Apprentice depicts the ex-president’s come up, a gamble that’s led to legal threats and Hollywood discourse

Mark Kermode on… British director Carol Morley, who sees the surreal in the real

​With her latest film, Typist Artist Pirate King,​ on Netflix, it’s a good time to survey the back-catalogue of one of the UK’s most thrilling film-makers, from a jaw-droppingly personal documentary to a misunderstood neo-noir

From Joker: Folie à Deux to Francis Bacon: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Joaquin Phoenix’s supervillain returns with added Gaga, and one of Britain’s greatest modern artists exposes the brutal face of humanity

‘I wasn’t interested in Churchill’: Steve McQueen on the ‘ordinary people’ in his film Blitz

Director’s second world war feature is a grimy, chaotic look at Londoners navigating their way through hell

‘It was hard not to stare at him all the time’: inside the remarkable rise and shocking loss of Leonard Rossiter

Best known for sitcoms Rising Damp and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, the actor died 40 years ago during a performance of Loot, aged 57. Co-stars, colleagues and friends remember a brilliant, singular and demanding man

The Platform 2 review – Netflix dystopian horror sequel falls off

A follow-up to the gory pandemic smash returns to the grim world where prisoners must portion out food or risk death but the novelty has gone

Alice Lowe: ‘I’ve always gotten mouthy about sexism and it hasn’t really helped my career’

The actor-writer-director’s new film Timestalker sees her pursue an unsuspecting crush through the centuries. She discusses sexism in the film and TV industry, her dream of being a comedy-horror auteur - and why she’s scared of Kristen Stewart

Give us DC’s Deathstroke and Bane movie – it can’t be worse than Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

James Gunn’s made a good start as DC’s new big cheese, but will all musclebound lunks and second-rate sidekicks get their own feature film? Who’s next, Condiment King?

The Boy and the Heron to A Killer’s Memory: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

A mind-bending masterpiece from Studio Ghibli, and Michael Keaton at his all-time best. Plus: a beautiful documentary that will surely win Oscars

‘Editing it was like exposure therapy’: Shiori Ito, the reluctant face of Japan’s #MeToo movement

After reporting a high-profile journalist for sexual assault, Ito was championed and vilified. She relives that night and the aftermath in her documentary Black Box Diaries

‘I never said I was going to retire …’ Paul Simon on disability, drive and the mystery behind his greatest songs

He halted his career after decades of hits, then a dream one night changed everything. From New York to swinging London and apartheid South Africa, he explains his epic journey

Hold Your Breath review – Sarah Paulson gets lost in scattered horror

A 1930s-set thriller, about a family battling mysterious dust storms and a possible intruder, is impressively made and acted but falls apart by the end

A live-action version of Rugrats with CGI babies sounds nightmarish … and kind of interesting

Paramount’s ‘hybrid’ spin on the animated cartoon is bound to be disturbingly freakish, as it mixes real actors with animated baby-blobs