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Wolfram review – Warwick Thornton’s sequel to Sweet Country never quite comes together

Set four years after Thornton’s blistering neo-western, this film is impressively atmospheric and has strong performances, though Deborah Mailman is criminally underused

People aged 18-29: tell us about your cinema going habits

We would like to hear from younger people about how often they go to the cinema

Boom! A melodrama fit for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s doomed love affair

A dying glamour puss falls for her parasitic houseguest in Joseph Losey’s 1968 fever dream that earns its exclamation mark

Deborah Mailman: ‘There’s almost a permission now – people can just be incredibly cruel and racist’

The actor, who reunites with Warwick Thornton in his frontier western Wolfram, reflects on her late parents, the failed voice referendum and her obsession with space

Michael smashes UK records for biggest biopic opening

Michael Jackson biopic debuted with £11.6m at the UK box office – almost double achieved by next-best Bohemian Rhapsody

Touch Me review – tentacle sex abounds in psychosexual horror that’s like live-action hentai

Addison Heimann’s stylised alien horror is as zippily amusing as it is sensual, with more than a bit of Rocky Horror in the mix

George Clooney condemns Washington shooting and calls on citizens to ‘truly make America great again’

Star tells awards ceremony: ‘I disagree with everything that this administration stands for, but there’s no place for the kind of violence we saw two nights ago’

Wild Foxes review – animal-obsessed fighter at elite sports academy wonders if more to life than boxing

Valéry Carnoy’s striking film brims with unsynchronised ideas and images, but the physicality and performances of the young cast are undeniable

‘The folk scene is very middle class. The divide is huge’: Jim Ghedi, the Sheffield singer bringing his doomy music to the movies

Plucked from relative obscurity to score Hugh Jackman film The Death of Robin Hood, the skilled singer-songwriter explains how he conquered his impostor syndrome

I’ve Seen All I Need to See review – murky indie thriller follows woman home after her sister is murdered

An actor returns after the death of a family member, but there’s not much more of depth in this noirish tale with a painfully pretentious voiceover

‘An uprising against loneliness’: why have football ultras become a cultural obsession?

A new documentary travels around the world to identify the roots of ultra-mania – the fan movement that’s part progressive and sometimes criminal

The Return of Arinzo review – families who hate each other clash in noirish Nollywood thriller

Nigerian actor and director Iyabo Ojo’s entertaining but imperfect tale about warring clans unfolds across Nigeria, Ghana and Tanzania

The Sheep Detectives review – Hugh Jackman gives a flock in baa-rking mad cosy crime caper

Jackman plays the farmer in this Babe-style feelgood family film about plucky sheep who help solve a murder

Michael might be a cowardly, cursed biopic but his fans are happy to live in a fantasy

The hit success of the critically reviled Michael Jackson movie shows that his fans only want to see the good – not the truth

‘Omar, what the hell are you doing in Chichester?’: when Doctor Zhivago star Sharif came to Sussex

Hannah Khalil’s new play sprang from her surprise at seeing the great Egyptian actor had performed at the Festival theatre in the 1980s. She explains how it entwined with a story of her mixed-heritage identity

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