Surgery, shame and self-erasure: four female writers on the tyranny of impossible beauty standards

How did Botox become so popular? And why are teenage girls using anti-wrinkle cream? As a new film, The Substance, considers our obsession with youth and good looks, writers reflect on how this has shaped their lives

200% Wolf review – moon spirit baby turns kiddie werewolf sequel into frenetic howler

Where 100% Wolf was giddy fun, the chaos of its sequel is in a rush to get to nowhere very interesting or charming

Post your questions for Ice-T

As his heavy metal band Body Count return, the vocalist and actor will answer questions about his varied career

‘It would not get made today’: Todd Solondz on his shocking paedophile film Happiness

‘It’s about a guy who has this horrible private obsession but doesn’t accept he’s hurting anyone. He feels he’s a good father, a good family man, and that this other life is his alone. Sadly, I don’t think that’s rare’

The Island review – Matt Dillon’s moody clarinetting sums up exotic Greek idyll thriller

Dillon plays a man with more red flags than a golf course and Aida Folch does her best stay above water in Fernando Trueba’s noir-adjacent film

Queensland island that inspired scenes in Chronicles of Narnia film sold for $5.6m

Little Green Island was owned by film producer and actor Douglas Gresham, who is the stepson of Narnia author CS Lewis

Last Straw review – waitress holes up in diner in twisty low-budget siege horror

This debut feature from Alan Scott Neal shows plenty of promise, with its classic setup and innovative midpoint switcharound

Astrakan 79 review – memories of a boyhood adventure in chilly communist Russia

A Portuguese man comes to terms with the year he ran away aged just 15 to live in the Soviet Union in the 1970s

Anyox review – ghostly afterlife of a devastated mining town in ecological disaster

Jessica Johnson and Ryan Ermacora’s documentary connects the grim toil of a place that once boomed – for its owners – with its toxic legacy

Tried for double murder and adored by the French left: the violent life and crimes of Pierre Goldman

He was a street-fighting revolutionary with a taste for flash cars and crisp shirts – a moralising bank-robber who was eventually gunned down in the streets of Paris. As a film recreates this astonishing figure’s notorious trial, we speak to his old acquaintances

Will Jennings obituary

American lyricist who enjoyed huge success with Up Where We Belong and My Heart Will Go On

Stephen King adaptation The Life of Chuck wins Toronto film festival award

Audience award, typically handed to film that goes on to enjoy Oscar success, was won by Tom Hiddleston-led drama

Women ‘disheartened’ by UK decision to halt Harvey Weinstein charges

Film producer’s former assistant says decision calls into question justice system’s attitude to sexual assault and rape

In Camera review – smart, surreal showbiz satire hits a nerve

An aspiring actor faces endless knock-backs in writer-director Naqqash Khalid’s enjoyably exaggerated skewering of the TV and film industry

Hell on Middle-earth? The Rings of Power fails to spin streaming gold

Most expensive TV show ever is in its second season, but reviews are disappointing and audiences are staying away