‘He isn’t just a pet. He is a character’: Black Dog director Guan Hu on filming an indescribable bond

The Eight Hundred film-maker explains that his moody, sprawling feature springs from a decisive moment in Chinese history but also a very intimate connection

Paradise Is Burning review – teens survive on wits in dreamy coming-of-age drama

Mika Gustafson’s feature has some obvious influences in The Virgin Suicides or American Honey but wears them lightly in this fresh and beautifully cut debut

‘It made him an A-lister’: John Ford’s breakthrough film The Iron Horse at 100

Filmed in the freezing Nevada desert under studio pressure, Ford’s 1924 epic was a huge hit. It was the springboard for the director’s astounding career of westerns, idealism and high drama

John Clegg obituary

Actor who played Gunner ‘La Di Da’ Graham in the popular, and later controversial, BBC sitcom It Ain’t Half Hot Mum

Farming the Revolution review – low-key look at Indian farmers’ street-camp protests

Documentary on the 2020-21 protests in India over three farm acts is interesting in patches, but doesn’t go anywhere unexpected

Black Dog review – state-of-the-Chinese-nation drama with feelgood furry antics

A squadron of dog catchers, sent into the Gobi desert to round up a bevy of hounds, adds stark absurdism to this commentary on Chinese society

‘His spirit is everywhere’: the fascinating story of Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady studio

New documentary takes a look back to the late 60s when the star commissioned a recording studio that has since taken on a life of its own

Horror films were reviled as one step up from pornography – now the genre is a force to be reckoned with

Horror’s fingerprints are everywhere, not just in the grindhouse and VOD, but in mainstream multiplex fare – now Demi Moore and Lady Gaga are joining the gore-fest

Directors and actors urge Serbia not to extradite activist to Belarus

Dozens from European film industry and other artists write letter warning Andrei Gnyot could face death penalty

Natural Born Killers at 30: Oliver Stone’s brash button-pusher remains tiresome

The director’s all-out-assault from 1994 is a grotesque and garish attempt to make a string of very obvious points

Broca’s Aphasia review – Taiwanese sex doll service offers eerie insight into male domain

Su Ming-yen’s uncanny delve into the world of artificial women is both fascinatingly mundane and quietly unsettling

Last Things review – stones yield up their memories in poetic vision of life on Earth

Deborah Stratman’s film looks far beyond humanity for answers to the big questions of survival, gathering the words of scientists and imaginative writers

The return of Beetlejuice, Gladiator, Paddington and the Joker – the best films of autumn 2024

Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder are back for more exorcisms and Hugh Grant continues his dive into the dark side in Heretic as the new season’s cinema offerings are unspooled

Roy Minton obituary

Radical writer behind the controversial 1977 television play Scum that portrayed the brutal violence inside a borstal

Bad apple? How Disney’s Snow White remake turned sour

As its two stars fight over the war in Gaza, rows over sexism, race and the dwarves are turning fairytale into a nightmare