The cinema lab: brain activity tracked to find secret to creating immersive films
Bristol University project aims to help directors make better movies and take greater risks – with one already onboard
Severance star Adam Scott: ‘There’s nothing wrong with being told that you resemble Tom Cruise’
The Parks and Recreation actor on working with Martin Scorsese, chatting about cinema with the pope and delivering calzones to stoners
Taraji P Henson: ‘It’s exhausting to have to fight for my worth’
The Oscar-nominee on Hollywood burnout, Black resilience and her Broadway debut in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Double Indemnity review – leaden drama turns crime classic into a very cold case
James M Cain’s hard-bitten novella gained bleak power on screen but this version, giving Mischa Barton her UK stage debut, loses its flinty edge
Wuthering Heights to Small Things Like These: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are Cathy and Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s raunchy update of the Emily Brontë classic. Plus, Cillian Murphy stars in a damning take on the Magdalene Laundries scandal
Alphabet Lane review – tree-change couple invent fake neighbours in this unsettling drama
James Litchfield’s dark, well-paced film about an isolated pair’s imaginary friend, blends genres and emotional registers
Isaac Julien review – Gwendoline Christie meets a cyborg starfish in a pleasure-seeker’s postmodern parlour
The video artist famous for his films charged with Black queer desire unleashes a kitsch, bombastic and rather glorious meditation on human connection
People once cited romcoms to describe the love they hoped for. Now the doomscroll has replaced the meet-cute
The search for connection persists but it’s seen as a task to be completed rather than a story waiting to unfold
‘In two years, nobody will care’ if actors are AI or not, predicts La Haine director
Mathieu Kassovitz, who is currently working on an AI-enabled film, also dismisses concerns over copyright
Agon review – ice-cold, machine-tooled inspection of the dark side of athletic perfection
Three sportswomen undergo the various ordeals of competition in a spare, sometimes harrowing drama suffused with a chilly vérité detachedness
Exit 8 review – Escher-esque subway station corridor leads to disquieting psychological mystery
A commuter’s entrapment in an Escher-esque subway station provides a taut, unnerving and rare example of an adaptation that holds close to the video game on which it is based
Post your questions for Ian McKellen
Beyond Gandalf and Magneto, the 86-year-old stage and screen star has a grand career as a great Shakespearean, not to mention his work as an LGBTQ+ rights campaigner. He’ll be here to discuss it all
The Last Spy review – former CIA station chief tells it like it was from inside the tent
Peter Sichel gives a scrupulous and sometimes salacious insider’s view of the secret service and Washington circles in Katharina Otto-Bernstein’s documentary
Surviving Earth review – bruising portrait of addiction and redemption
Thea Gajić’s debut is an assured, intelligent drama of a father’s endless quest for contentment outside his heroin dependency
Smackdowns and showtunes: wrestling biopic Fighting With My Family inspires stage musical
Adaptation of Stephen Merchant’s 2019 film about WWE champ Saraya-Jade Bevis ‘will be an absolute blast’, says one of the film’s stars, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson