Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight review – heartfelt child’s-eye view of last days of Rhodesia
Embeth Davidtz stars and directs, with outstanding performances from Zikhona Bali and seven-year-old Lexi Venter as Bobo as white minority rule ends
I’m just Ken: why is Kenneth Branagh narrating Anthony Hopkins’s memoir?
You might think the audiobook of the acting legend’s autobiography should be read by the acting legend himself. But apparently he wasn’t right for the part
‘I am quite tough’: Schindler’s List star Embeth Davidtz on her explosive film about Rhodesia’s final days
After starring in Mad Men, Californication, Spider-Man and Junebug, Davidtz soured on acting. Now she’s directed – and starred in – a powerful debut film
‘A venue like this doesn’t exist elsewhere’: inside the colossal arena built for The Hunger Games
London’s Canary Wharf is being turned into the Capitol, with a bespoke £26m theatre made for the stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ bestseller. Our writer goes on a hard-hat tour
Mr Blake at Your Service review – John Malkovich does worst French accent ever in baffling comedy misfire
Gilles Legardinier’s broad dramedy set in a chateau, co-starring Fanny Ardant and Émilie Dequenne, is an ordeal to watch. Sacré bleu!
‘She is ignorant of how ignorant she is’: JK Rowling responds to Emma Watson rift
The author has rebuffed conciliatory remarks made by the Harry Potter actor, saying Watson has ‘enthusiastically participated’ in the ‘trashing of women’s rights’
‘There’s an enormous amount of sado-masochism in this book’: Emerald Fennell defends her Wuthering Heights adaptation
At the Brontë Women’s Writing festival, the Saltburn director explained her decision to cast Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in her sex-charged retelling of Emily Brontë’s novel
Last and First Men review – sci-fi dance can’t match Tilda Swinton’s cool apocalypse
Composer Jóhann Jóhannson’s moody film, narrated by Swinton and inspired by a classic novel, gains little from a live dance interpretation
House of Guinness to Olivia Dean: the week in rave reviews
Steven Knight takes on Dublin’s booze dynasty with sex appeal, while the London singer-songwriter goes from strength to strength with her second album. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews
The Lodger review – ingenious penny dreadful take on Hitchcock’s foggy mystery
Puppetry and silent cinema techniques are used to retell Marie Belloc Lowndes’ novel and its film version in a show played for laughs rather than thrills
‘They were so feral’: Cillian Murphy, Tracey Ullman and cast on nose-breaking remand school drama Steve
In the acclaimed new film about boys written off by the system, Murphy draws on his own past as a troublesome schoolboy while Little Simz plays a teacher – and writes a 90s-style banger of a song
The Librarians review – the heroic women battling against book bans and censorship
Kim A Snyder’s documentary highlights the defenders of young readers’ rights to see their lives in print facing rightwing attacks
Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback review – anime sleuth wades through a bamboozling bureaucratic maze
A labyrinthine but lively 28th instalment of the hit manga series juggles byzantine intrigue, spies and cop rivalries with stylish flair
‘I don’t want to stop believing in humanity’: Matthew McConaughey on faith, fame and the shocking incident that defined him
He was once so stoned he missed his own birthday party, but the Oscar-winning actor has swapped pot for poetry. He reveals the trauma and triumph that taught him why it’s more important to be a good man than a nice guy
The Lost Bus review – Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera in dynamic real-life blaze-escape movie
McConaughey plays the unassuming real hero who drove a schoolbus full of children out of California’s deadliest wildfire