Caligula: The Ultimate Cut review – 1970s Roman empire sex shocker returns to the source
Without the extra sex that made writer Gore Vidal want his credit removed, Tinto Brass’s epic of imperial eroticism showcases a powerhouse Malcolm McDowell
The Weak and the Wicked/No Trees in the Street review – tough, old school British drama
★★★★☆ / ★★★☆☆Two of J Lee Thompson’s early films – a gritty women’s prison drama and a postwar crime thriller – serve as a reminder that the director deserves more kudos as an artist
Historian Richard J Evans: ‘I’m planning to write a book about pandemics next. I’ve had enough of Nazis’
The author of the definitive account of the Third Reich on revisiting nazism one last time, the ongoing need to discredit Holocaust denial and fact-checking Martin Amis’s novel The Zone of Interest
On my radar: Sue Perkins’s cultural highlights
The broadcaster and standup comedian on her love of Angela Carter, bewitching Budapest, and a pizza restaurant that fuses Indian and Italian cuisine
Britney Spears memoir The Woman in Me headed to the big screen
Universal has acquired the rights to the bestselling tell-all, with Wicked’s Jon M Chu set to direct
The NeverEnding Story review – a wondrous world of beasts and young heroes
A grieving boy is drawn into a magical land in Wolfgang Petersen’s ambitious fantasy adventure, rereleased for its 40th anniversary
Werckmeister Harmonies review – Béla Tarr’s brooding masterpiece of a town sleepwalking into tyranny
Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky’s 2000 film moves slowly around a small town where a very strange circus has arrived. Its eerie power has only grown in a time of rising fascism
Kensuke’s Kingdom review – Michael Morpurgo’s desert island boy’s own adventure
Morpurgo’s yarn about a kid on a round the world voyage is adapted by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and attractively packaged as a family-friendly animation
‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture
Steve McQueen, Tracey Emin, Steve Coogan, Adjoa Andoh, Danny Dyer, Jesse Darling and many more spell out what must be done to restore Britain’s cultural lifeblood, from ending elitism to supercharging libraries – and flooding schools with music
Three review – Yugoslavian trilogy of tales tracks the horrors of the second world war
Aleksandar Petrović’s 1965 interlinked stories focus on the changes wrought in one young Yugoslavian by the brutality of the war and its aftermath
In brief: Banal Nightmare; Feeding the Monster; Burning Angel and Other Stories – review
Midlife millennial angst abounds in Halle Butler’s sardonic novel, while Anna Bogutskaya bites into our love of horror films, and Lawrence Osborne spans the globe with gripping tales
On my radar: Evie Wyld’s cultural highlights
The author on a musical tribute to Andy Warhol, the book that made her swear out loud, and an exciting new restaurant in Peckham
The Guide #149: Is Deadpool & Wolverine a symptom or cure to Marvel’s multiversal malady?
Marvel, DC and others try everything from standalone films to sequels stuffed with stars. But could genre experimentation be the trick that keeps the action going – and audiences watching?
I’ve been thinking about life after death – and I want to come back as Keanu Reeves
He’s got looks, talent and money … but is also generous and modest. Who could ask for more?
Rampant slaughter! Sexy armour! Tiger maulings! We bust the gladiator myths
As swords and sandals make a bloody return to the screen, the ‘Colosseum consultant’ who advises all the epic productions about accuracy tells us why he is ‘paid to be ignored’