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Big knickers, bad decisions and old bats: Renée Zellweger on the return of Bridget Jones

Nearly 25 years after the first film, the actor, her co-stars and the writer Helen Fielding discuss the ultimate singleton, love and loss – and the final resting place for Bridget’s massive knickers

Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story review – engaging study of a life less ordinary

One of Ireland’s most important novelists and a woman of fierce intelligence and bravery is celebrated in Sinéad O’Shea’s thoroughly enjoyable documentary

The People Before review – house holds terrible secrets in efficient rural-set thriller

A family seek a fresh start but their new home isn’t the haven of tranquility they were hoping for in this interesting but predictable thriller

I’ve Never Wanted Anyone More review – Goethe’s Werther remade as charming contempo romcom

An 18th-century love triangle relocated to the well-to-do of modern Toronto is big on banter and farce even if real passion is sometimes lacking

Tina returner: why discovering lost songs, films and books is simply the best

Finding a forgotten track by the late singer goes to the heart of who we are, how we connect and the way we define ourselves

On my radar: Alison Goldfrapp’s cultural highlights

The electropop star on her favourite quirky bookshop, Marmite and cheese pastries and the second series of Severance

Long-delayed DiCaprio/Scorsese serial killer film Devil in the White City back on track

The actor and director have wanted to film the true story of murders at the 1893 World’s Fair for more than a decade, and reports suggest it is back in pre-production

Jules Feiffer, award-winning political cartoonist and writer, dies at 95

The provocative Pulitzer prize-winner was known for his edgy comic strip and his screenplay for Carnal Knowledge

The Rules of Attraction: a surprisingly poignant Bret Easton Ellis adaptation

Starring James Van Der Beek, this 2002 film offers more than misanthropy in its portrait of young love and thwarted desire

Blackwater Lane review – medieval mansion is the star in haunted house stalker thriller

A teacher becomes increasingly paranoid as she roams around her fabulous home and gardens in this flimsy adaptation of BA Paris’s novel The Breakdown

‘Stuff happens and it sucks’: Brooke Shields on abuse, ageing and telling her own story

Brooke Shields, sexualised child star at just 11, is no stranger to tabloid controversy. Now 59, perhaps now she can tell us how she ended up so… normal?

On my radar: Naomi Alderman’s cultural highlights

The author of the bestselling The Power on her favourite video game, the courses she takes with the Open University, and why she is addicted to George Saunders’s substack

Send us your questions for Pamela Anderson

Got something you’d love to ask the former Baywatch star about her life and new career directions? Now’s your chance

A life in quotes: David Lynch

The visionary film-maker and prolific artist, purveyor of the dark, mysterious, abstract and unspoken, died aged 78

David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director, dies aged 78

Film-maker who specialised in surreal, noir style mysteries made a string of influential, critically acclaimed works including Wild at Heart and Eraserhead

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