‘I’ve failed, badly – and I’m good with it’: James McAvoy on class, comfort and carnage

He says that acting is a gamble – but is a dead cert to terrify audiences with new film Speak No Evil. The Scottish actor talks about marriage, therapy – and why Ken Loach would never cast him

The Front Room review – Brandy Norwood shines in muddled camp horror

The actor-singer returns to horror as a new mother confronted with the hell of living with her creepy and boundary-crossing mother-in-law

April review – Dea Kulumbegashvili comes into her own with haunting abortion drama

Shocking violence is tempered by strange, silent sequences in a sophomore feature about an obstetrician under investigation, in which buried trauma has echoes of The Piano Teacher

LL Cool J: ‘Hip-hop isn’t underdog music any more’

The artist and actor answers your questions about dodging animatronic sharks, hanging out with Al Pacino, his love of Abba and the making of his first album in 11 years

Post your questions for Jude Law

Ahead of his transformation into an ageing, smelly Henry VIII in new film Firebrand, the twice Oscar-nominated actor is answering your questions

Keanu Reeves at 60: from surfer dude to action hero, his 20 best films – ranked!

Good cop, bad cop, Shakespearean villain – he’s done the lot. To mark the milestone birthday of one of the nicest men in Hollywood, we run down his finest works

Firebrand review – Jude Law’s obese and oozy Henry VIII rules supreme in Catherine Parr drama

The ailing king’s misogyny is compellingly disturbing but Alicia Vikander is underused as his final wife

From Hard Truths to Nightbitch: 10 films to look out for at Toronto film festival 2024

Much-anticipated titles from Mike Leigh and Ron Howard lead lineup with stars such as Amy Adams and Hugh Grant

The Brutalist review – epic Adrien Brody postwar architectural drama stuns and electrifies

In a superb performance, Brody plays a Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor who comes to the US and begins a distinguished career under the patronage of a wealthy man

Damaged review – Samuel L Jackson comes to Edinburgh in crime thriller

Vincent Cassel and Gianni Capaldi complete an improbable trio on the hunt for a serial killer in this absurd police procedural – one for the so-bad-it’s-good genre

Apollo 13: Survival review – fascinating, if clinical, retelling of space history

Netflix’s archival documentary relives the near-fatal explosion of 1970 with remarkable and urgent footage

Joker: Folie à Deux review – Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga musical spirals out of tune

There’s a great supporting cast and a barnstorming first act but Todd Phillips’s much-hyped Gotham sequel proves claustrophobic and repetitive

‘I probably shouldn’t do this again’: Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga talk about ‘difficult’ Joker diets

The stars of Joker: Folie à Deux worked under medical supervision to lose weight for physically demanding sequel, which premieres at the Venice film festival this week

Tony Strong obituary

Other lives: Scenic artist whose work enhanced theatre, TV and film productions

Rebel Ridge review – electrifying Netflix crime thriller is a knockout

Green Room director Jeremy Saulnier’s crackerjack combo of action thriller and social drama is one of the year’s most undeniably entertaining films