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‘I hope God gives me the strength to make more movies’: Scorsese addresses retirement rumours

Director tells press conference he has ‘more films to make’ after long-planned Frank Sinatra biopic and adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s A Life of Jesus both get delayed

Anwar Hussein obituary

Photographer whose work helped to transform the public image of the royal family

‘I want space for jokes’: how film-maker Iryna Tsilyk captures surreal life in Ukraine

Audiences in flak jackets queued to hear the poet and director on a tour of pounded cities. She talks about depicting life during war, from air raid alerts to hesitating between pinot or zinfandel in the supermarket

‘An impossible passion’: cinema’s long love affair with Wuthering Heights

Saltburn director Emerald Fennell has caused a stir with her project to remake Brontë’s classic – but the novel has been provocative for more than 170 years

The Outrun review – Saoirse Ronan impresses in a refreshingly unconventional recovery drama

The actor excels as an alcoholic who returns to Orkney in Nora Fingscheidt’s fine adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir

Nickel Boys review – Colson Whitehead novel becomes intensely moving story of a racist reform school

Adaptation of Whitehead’s novel about two young friends trapped by institutional abuse is told with piercing beauty by RaMell Ross

Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89

In a career that began in the 1950s, her roles ranged from Desdemona to Miss Jean Brodie, Virginia Woolf and Minerva McGonagall

Maggie Smith was the grandest of grandes dames – and a true cinematic superstar

Before she reached a new level of TV celebrity in the 21st century, Smith had a remarkable big-screen career, channelling her stage presence into the camera whether as Jean Brodie or her tragic, absurd ‘aunt’ persona

Hellboy: The Crooked Man review – sputtering mess even a metric ton of makeup can’t conceal

A boring nemesis in a top hat bops around cackling while a wan Hellboy is enlisted to save a local man’s sweetheart in this inexplicable successor

The Outrun review – Saoirse Ronan is mesmerising in sobering addiction drama

Heart-wrenching story adapted from Amy Liptrot’s memoir is as tough as its Orkney landscapes

Killer Heat review – overcooked Jo Nesbø adaptation is deathly dull

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley star in a very boring murder mystery streaming on Amazon

Dragonkeeper review – kids’ animation in which a girl must save China’s last fire breathers

This adaptation of Carole Wilkinson’s children’s fantasy novel is let down by fairly average animation, oddly bland characters and some ill-fitting Bill Nighy-ness

Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram review – cult anime goes on wild treasure hunt

The latest outing for the high school sleuth sees him join forces with his arch enemy, a master thief. Despite some flashes of brilliance, the script soon becomes convoluted

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi to lead Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights

The Australian stars will head up a new adaptation from the Promising Young Woman and Saltburn film-maker

The Outrun: My real life as an alcoholic, played out on the big screen

The film version of the best-selling memoir ably blurs the lines between fact and fiction of recovering on the tiny isle of Papay

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