A moment that changed me: I botched my final Harry Potter audition and felt dismay, remorse, shame – then relief

The disappointment was fairly crushing as a kid. But I wouldn’t swap Daniel Radcliffe’s £95m fortune for my happily anonymous teenage years

Daniel Day-Lewis ends retirement from acting after seven years

Three-time Oscar winner to star in his son Ronan’s directorial debut, Anemone, which he also co-wrote

Paul McWilliams obituary

Other lives: Visual effects specialist who worked on films and later switched to become a PE teacher and charity volunteer

John Ashton obituary

American actor best known for his role as Sergeant John Taggart in the Beverly Hills Cop films

‘I was barricading myself with alcohol’: Matthew López on the play that was too scary to stage

He has done frothy romcoms and weighty epics such as Tony-winning The Inheritance. Now the US playwright is revisiting the drink-fuelled drama that terrified him as he wrote it

‘I want space for jokes’: how film-maker Iryna Tsilyk captures surreal life in Ukraine

Audiences in flak jackets queued to hear the poet and director on a tour of pounded cities. She talks about depicting life during war, from air raid alerts to hesitating between pinot or zinfandel in the supermarket

Fatal Instinct: the lewd, kitschy, erotic-thriller spoof that gets better as you get older

Ingenious casting and comedic performances make this film noir parody a hoot – even if you don’t get all the homages

Fountain of youth: The Substance and movies’ obsession with fictional drugs

As the Demi Moore body horror shows, the made-up likes of melange, substance, black meat or adrenochrome reflect our preoccupation with staying young

Salem’s Lot review – Stephen King’s small-town vampire rework lacks bite

After being kept on the shelf for three years, a middling adaptation of the 1975 novel proves to be a lacklustre non-event even for hardcore genre fans

Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed

The amount of media being wiped from the internet is worrying for viewers, and industry workers who need the exposure, says journalist and critic Zach Schonfeld

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at 50: a brutal yet artful shock horror

Tobe Hooper’s terrifying 1974 slasher remains one of the most effective and masterly horror films ever made

Inherit the Witch review – like an am-dram theatre group doing a murder mystery party in an Airbnb

Pseudo-schlock such as Sharknado is trying to be so bad it’s good – this is just bad

Blood Star review – young tearaway fights for survival in cat-and-mouse thriller

Vintage-car driver is chased through New Mexico by a small-town sheriff in Lawrence Jacomelli’s snappily shot debut

No Other Land review – powerful Israel-Palestine documentary is essential viewing

A Palestinian-Israeli collective have documented violence and displacement in a damning new film that offers a stark insider’s look at the conflict

Sing Sing actor JJ Velazquez exonerated after wrongful conviction

Velazquez was incarcerated for decades for a 1998 murder he didn’t commit before starring in award-winning A24 film