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The Mountain Within Me review – disabled heroes take on the Himalayas

Documentary traces Ed Jackson’s extraordinary journey from paraplegia to extreme climbing, and follows him through spectacular landscapes

Nothing But the Best review – raffish Alan Bates comedy is a time capsule of 60s London

Millicent Martin and Denholm Elliott also star in Clive Donner’s 1964 satire on class, filled with macabre twists

‘I stumbled into this’: Nnamdi Asomugha on swapping the NFL for Hollywood

The former All-Pro cornerback talks about his transition to acting, breaking out of the athlete-turned-action-star stereotype and his directorial debut, which tells a story of family turmoil, police brutality and racial bias.

‘A war of who gets to write history’: the artists resisting in Ukraine

Film-maker David Gutnik lasers in on the artists pushing back against Russian aggression for an inspiring yet harrowing new documentary

Bennifer is over – again. But why does Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s divorce feel so sad?

It was genuinely nice seeing two middle-aged stars reunite 18 years after their wedding was called off. But it didn’t last

Hell Hole review – creature feature is fracking fun

A crew of engineers drilling in Serbia find more than they bargained for in this endearing, low-budget horror from the Adams family

‘They couldn’t even afford a bag of chips!’: Scotland’s great lost all-female bands

From the Edinburgh duo who toured with the Beatles to the ribbon-festooned Strawberry Switchblade, Scotland produced thrilling girl bands. So why couldn’t they sustain their success? A new film tells their stories

Guns banned from set of The Crow reboot after Brandon Lee’s death

Director Rupert Sanders reveals production used only fake guns with no firing mechanism so there could be no repeat of the accident that killed Lee in 1994

Jennifer Lopez files for divorce from Ben Affleck after two years of marriage

Actors, dubbed ‘Bennifer’ in 2000s, married in Las Vegas in 2022 after re-sparking relationship from two decades prior

Lollipop review – impassioned, head-butting indictment of the social-care system

Informed by her own experiences, Daisy-May Hudson’s portrait of a woman trying to regain custody of her kids is surprisingly even-handed

Paramount Global receives $4.3bn takeover offer from Edgar Bronfman Jr

Veteran media executive’s bid would scupper Hollywood media empire’s planned merger with Skydance Media

Disney drops streaming waiver defense over woman’s allergy death at resort

Company agrees to let case go to trial despite earlier claiming terms of free subscription trial invalidated lawsuit

Alain Delon’s family refuse to put down dog actor wished to be buried with

Late French film star wanted his pet Belgian malinois Loubo ‘put to sleep’ and laid beside him in grave

Sorry, Blake Lively: using a movie about domestic violence to sell stuff is not a good look

In a car-crash promotional tour for the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s controversial novel It Ends With Us, the actor has tried to flog not only her husband’s gin brand, but also a haircare line, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The 39 Steps review – comic homage to Hitchcock thriller goes off the rails

With four actors playing 130 parts, this revival of Patrick Barlow’s take on the spy film is fitfully funny but ultimately frustrating

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