‘Incompatible with the symbolism’: Yorgos Lanthimos denied permission to shoot new film at the Acropolis

The country’s best-known director was refused by Greece’s culture ministry when he applied to shoot scenes for sci-fi comedy Bugonia at iconic Athens site

A Minecraft Movie breaks records to become highest opening video game movie of all time

First-weekend takings of $163m in North America puts the adaptation of the wildly popular video game ahead of previous record holder The Super Mario Bros Movie

UK Home Office loses attempt to keep legal battle with Apple secret

Judges reject Home Office’s attempt to withhold from public details of case concerning access of Apple users’ data

First trailer for Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme launches

The director’s 13th film, an ‘espionage thriller’, stars everyone from Benicio del Toro to Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Mia Threapleton and Richard Ayoade

A Knight’s War review – smiting, flaying and lopping of limbs as sword’n’sorcery caper aims high

Atmospheric fantasy sees paladin Bhodie enter a cursed realm and die on repeat to rescue a red-haired maiden

‘To me it’s still funny … it’s still stupid’: Bill Murray speaks out about sexual misconduct allegation

The actor said he was ‘barbecued’ after a complaint on the set of Being Mortal in 2022, which shut down production on the film

Alarm as Republicans in Congress back Trump and Musk’s attacks on US judges

Mike Johnson and Jim Jordan echo president and key ally as experts express fears for ‘bedrock constitutional principles’

Fran the Man review – Irish football-coach mockumentary gets the fans onside

Spin off from Irish TV comedy doesn’t really raise its game for feature about plucky amateurs taking on a strong team

‘Unfailing ability to cheer me up’: why The Rebel is my feelgood movie

The next entry in our series of writers highlighting their go-to comfort watches is a look back to the 1961 Tony Hancock comedy

Labour: changes to EV rules will have ‘negligible’ impact on UK emissions

Transport secretary says overhaul in response to Trump tariffs supports car firms and climate goals

Grate expectations: cheese toasties are having a moment, and I’m all for it

The comfort-food staple has been given a culinary glow-up and is suddenly the toast of the town. What’s not to like, asks culture writer Lauren O’Neill

Private Footage review – found-footage study of apartheid takes the split-screen route

Director Janaína Nagata places her own internet research into South African history side by side with the vintage 16mm home movie footage that inspired it

All the Mountains Give review – gripping portrait of smugglers on the Iran-Iraq border

Arash Rakhsha’s documentary follows two Kurdish friends just about getting by smuggling goods across the mountains

We have more data on ourselves than ever before. But can we really track our way into happiness?

Self-tracking is regularly promoted as a way toward self-improvement. But life is not a mathematical problem waiting to be solved

Which celebrities are lying about their height? This website’s done the research

On Celebheights.com, thousands of users measure the statures of the rich and famous. The methods are scientific and the debates are fiery