Paddington in Peru review – you can take the bear out of South America, but think twice before taking him back

The third instalment in the film adventures of the furry marmalade addict may boast Olivia Colman as a singing nun but it lacks home comforts

Readers reply: Which works of fiction have an optimistic view of the future?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

Welcome to the new era of midlife lust! I need a lie down …

Anne Hathaway, Nicole Kidman and Miranda July are showing us middle age can be full of sexual energy. So why do I feel so fatigued, asks Emma Beddington

‘I am the industry!’: Keke Palmer on being Hollywood’s queen of content

Singer, gameshow host, podcaster – the actor has built a reputation for doing it all. And with an autobiography/self-help guide coming soon, she’s out to prove there’s nothing wrong with being a jack of all trades

Alan Bennett at 90: ‘What will people think? I don’t care any more’

In his 10th decade The History Boys writer is as prolific as ever with a war film in the works and a new sex-fuelled novella set in a home for the elderly. He talks about mourning Maggie Smith, turning down a knighthood and what he makes of Donald Trump

On my radar: Jacques Audiard’s cultural highlights

The film director on the music he works to, educating himself via podcasts, and why the Paris Olympics was a pleasant surprise

Joy and pain, struggle and achievement – who best tells the story of Black lives?

We asked a group of Black Britons, some famous, some not: who do you most revere as a chronicler of the Black journey, in Britain and abroad?

‘Say hello to my little pen’: 14 things we learned from Al Pacino’s memoir

In the just-published Sonny Boy, the Hollywood legend documents his eventful life with glee and candour. Here are some of the more unexpected revelations

The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Ideas … is a standalone Gandalf movie on its way?

A film about the wizard and his search for Gollum is coming – and it turns out a second may also be in the offing. Will he battle Balrog, entreat Entwines or just plod about perplexed?

Who should play Patrick Bateman in the new American Psycho?

With Luca Guadagnino set to direct a new take on Bret Easton Ellis’s novel, speculation abounds on who should play the vain serial killer

Watership Down review – charming rabbit animation still has power to terrify

A band of rabbits must leave their warren to find safety in a film that, even in a digital age, still has the bloody force to scare young minds

The Room Next Door review – Almodóvar’s English-language debut is extravagant and engrossing

Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton give luxuriously self-aware performances as two old friends who are reunited in a doggedly mysterious drama

Thom Yorke and Julianne Moore join thousands of creatives in AI warning

Statement comes as tech firms try to use creative professionals’ work to train AI models

Paddington Bear given UK passport by Home Office

Government issues specimen document to Peruvian-born character, listing him as ‘Bear’ under its observations

Sonny Boy: A Memoir by Al Pacino review – a South Bronx miracle

For all his on-set stories of The Godfather, the Oscar-winning actor’s account of his rise to fame is at its most compelling depicting his hardscrabble formative years