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From The Instigators to Bludfest: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Matt Damon and Casey Affleck star in a breezy Bostonian crime caper, while Doncaster’s favourite goth-pop pup, Yungblud, stages his own festival

How we made Romulus, My Father: ‘I said no to 10 to 12 offers – I didn’t want there to be a film’

Director Richard Roxburgh, actor Kodi Smit-McPhee and author Raimond Gaita share how their tiny adapation of Gaita’s book became a beloved Australian film

Joaquin Phoenix exits Todd Haynes gay drama five days before filming begins

Actor was set to lead an explicit love story set in 1930s but has left leaving the project to collapse

Luce review – enigmatic Italian drama of dreams and drones

A young woman’s breakdown – or is it an epiphany? – in coastal Italy, in Luca Bellino and Silvia Luzi’s film, does not surrender its meaning easily

Is this really the end of the line for Deadpool? Disney will never turn off the money tap

Poised to take a billion dollars at the box office, the sweary and ultraviolent Deadpool & Wolverine proves where there’s muck there’s brass – so there can’t not be a sequel

‘There is an incredible hunger for it’: why classic films are making a comeback in cinemas

From Caligula to Forrest Gump and My Neighbour Totoro, rereleases are hitting the big screen once again – and are proving lucrative at the box office

Daughters to Three Thousand Years of Longing: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

A documentary about a radical approach to rehabilitation is inspirational and heartbreaking in equal measure, while Idris Elba plays a genie as Mad Max director George Miller lets his imagination run riot

‘Designed to tear families apart’: a shocking film exposes abuse and infanticide

Devastating documentary Sugarcane reveals horrifying stories from controversial Indigenous residential schools

‘Sobbing in the aisles’: writers on their most memorable parent-kid film experiences

Whether a terrifying Postman Pat, a mortifying sex scene, or a brush with button-phobia, our writers report on the family viewing they will never forget

Paramount Global to cut 15% of its US workforce before Skydance merger

Company behind Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon and CBS writes down value of its cable networks by nearly $6bn

Colin Farrell opens up about son with Angelman syndrome: ‘We still struggle’

Actor discusses son’s neurological condition and launches foundation supporting people with intellectual disability

‘Traditional TV is dying’: can networks pivot and survive?

Warner Bros Discovery this week wrote down $9bn as it – and others – play catch-up with streaming and video services

Borderlands review – Cate Blanchett is wasted in janky video game adventure

The Oscar winner tries to rise above Eli Roth’s juvenile and derivative adaptation of the hit game but gets lost in the mess

Aliens, artists and Abscam: Amy Adams’ 20 best performances – ranked!

The six times Oscar-nominated actor, who turns 50 this month, stars in comedy horror Nightbitch releasing in December. We look back at some of her best roles

Jack Black says Tenacious D will return after Trump joke controversy

Black put comedy rock duo ‘on hold’ after Kyle Gass joked about assassination attempt

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