‘They’re as lost and inauthentic as us’: the Oscar winner who made a Farage satire – and released it on WeTransfer

In 2022, Aneil Karia won an Academy Award for his short starring Riz Ahmed. Now, he’s skewering Reform-style parliamentary candidates with the help of Jack Lowden and an unlikely online platform

Highlander review – dodgy accents no trouble to exciting, epic and unashamedly fun 80s blockbuster

Preposterous time-romp, starring Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery, is highly enjoyable if you’re prepared to meet it on its own terms

‘What we’re doing is real justice’: how one New York gym built a pipeline away from prison

Debra Granik’s five-hour documentary shows a former drug dealer turned entrepreneur striving to beat a system that continues to punish those that have served time

Creaky knees be damned – Charlize Theron is showing us what’s possible at 50

Her new film, Apex, may not be Citizen Kane, but how refreshing to see a middle-aged actor as a female action hero, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Di’Anno – Iron Maiden’s Lost Singer review – metal act’s original singer is a tough act to follow

This entertaining profile of Paul Di’Anno – the heavy metal band’s lead vocalist from 1978 to 1981 – is dragged down by its subject’s irascible nature

Hokum review – Adam Scott dour and grumpy in enjoyably eerie rural horror

A writer’s retreat to the remote Irish hotel in which his parents spent their honeymoon brings him face-to-face with all manner of creepy goings-on in a gruesome and eccentric black-comic shocker

The Devil Wears Prada 2 review – a sequel? For spring? Groundbreaking

The fashion and magazine industries have had a makeover but this glossy knock-off reunites the old team – and recycles the old plot – with style

Anne Hathaway says she didn’t get any size-zero models fired from The Devil Wears Prada 2

The actor responds to claims she pushed for ultra-thin models to be dropped from the sequel, saying ‘nobody lost their jobs’ and the move instead created more roles

‘A false narrative around a paedophile’: Michael Jackson biopic criticised by Leaving Neverland director

Dan Reed says the film recasts abuse allegations as lies and sidesteps Jackson’s relationships with children

Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC review – fascinating star-studded concert film

Footage from John Lennon’s only full-length performances after the Beatles – at Madison Square Garden, for charity, with the Plastic Ono Band – has been edited and restored

Ada: My Mother the Architect review – illuminating profile of brilliant builder balances work and family

Film-maker Yael Melamede presents a fascinating, if inevitably slightly indulgent, account of the revered Israeli designer’s life and work

Keira Knightley returns to West End in adaptation of Oscar winner The Lives of Others

Stephen Dillane and Bridgerton’s Luke Thompson set to co-star in Robert Icke’s production based on the German film this autumn

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Tears of the Azure Sea review – hectic anime lives again

There is less daffy humour in this sequel than in the 2023 original, but some sublime animation

Sam Neill announces he is cancer-free after taking part in Australian clinical trial: ‘I’m very, very excited’

Jurassic Park actor is advocating for CAR T-cell therapy, which he underwent as part of a clinical trial, to be rolled out for blood cancer patients across Australia

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