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Mark Kermode on… Martin Scorsese’s love of British cinema

The director’s new BFI season championing hidden gems of British film, hot on the heels of his Powell and Pressburger documentary, reveals some of the inspirations of a film-making great and passionate fan

From Sing Sing to Star Wars Outlaws: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Colman Domingo stars in a touching drama about prison inmates who stage a musical, and a new adventure game lets you play an interstellar scoundrel in a galaxy far, far away

Talking Heads, Agatha All Along and George Clooney: what’s new to streaming in Australia in September

Plus Mads Mikkelsen in Another Round, the original Gladiator and an ‘unforgettable’ entry in the Batman universe

Babygirl review – Nicole Kidman overwhelmed by lust as CEO having torrid and toxic affair

Halina Reijn’s film about a company executive’s carnal adventure with her intern is expertly done but suspect at its core, despite Kidman’s bold performance

AfrAId review – throwaway AI-themed horror devoid of suspense

A sinister Alexa upgrade exerts control on California family in an increasingly nonsensical attempt to capture the moment

Controversial Trump biopic to receive pre-election release in US

The Apprentice, an 80s-set drama with a scene in which he sexually assaults his wife, will get an October release

Nicole Kidman’s erotic drama Babygirl sets pulses racing at Venice film festival

Film among host of sexually explicit features on this year’s lineup as erotica returns to screens after years of chastity

‘They’d come to take our heads’: the surfing daredevils who risked everything for the perfect wave

Point of Change is a beautiful, gripping, thought-provoking film about two surf explorers who ‘discovered’ a world-class breaker on a remote island. Did they cause its ruin?

One to One: John & Yoko review – fun, fierce, full-blooded portrait of Lennon and Ono

Kevin Macdonald’s surprising documentary catches a radioactively charismatic Lennon enjoying his rambunctious post-Beatles heyday in New York

‘Ashamed. Embarrassed’: Jerry Lewis’s infamous Holocaust clown film that never was

A new documentary explores the mystery behind The Day the Clown Cried, a never-finished, never-released 1970s movie set in a second world war death camp

Hugo Weaving says he spent too long on Middle-earth. But he’s not the first actor to detest a classic

Marlon Brando had to be lured from his trailer with food to play Superman’s dad and Alec Guinness asked for Obi-Wan Kenobi to be killed off to spare him from the ‘awful lines’

Robert Sheehan: ‘My anxiety had got to the point where if I was left alone I was a twitching mess’

He’s known for freewheeling roles in Misfits and The Umbrella Academy, but now he’s written a book on meditation. What led him to this mindful career pivot?

Kinds of Kindness to RoboCop: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Yorgos Lanthimos’s anthology comedy is as wonderfully weird as you’d hope, and Peter Weller’s shiny sheriff dishes out justice in dystopian Detroit

‘You laugh the hardest in grief’: And Mrs, the cathartic romcom about marrying your dead fiance

Finding the funny side of bereavement may be taboo, but Colin Hanks and director Daniel Reisinger hope their new film starring Aisling Bea will help to change that

Kill the Jockey review – a mercurial, skittish crime drama whose hero is a drug-fuelled rogue

Luis Ortega’s film veers off the racetrack as jockey Remo drifts around the city streets, pursued by a pregnant girlfriend who wants him back and a gangster who wants him dead

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