Bread & Roses review – Afghan women reveal crushing reality of Taliban rule

Made under dangerous conditions, this documentary charts how the lives of three women were turned upside down by Afghanistan’s overthrow in 2021

Cary Grant’s humble Bristol roots honoured with blue plaque

Historic England to recognise home where Hollywood legend said he spent ‘happiest days’ of his childhood

‘We create gods because the world is chaos’: Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow and Stanley Tucci on celebrity, sin and papal thriller Conclave

In Edward Berger’s Oscar-tipped drama, the three actors play cardinals vying to become pope. Ahead of the film’s UK release, they form a huddle to discuss fame, food – and why Trump won

Two bottles a day and a 10,000 bottle wine cellar: Denzel Washington opens up about his past drinking problem

The Gladiator II star, who said he has been sober for 10 years, revealed he is now focused on getting stronger after Lenny Kravitz hooked him up with a trainer

Daisy Ridley: ‘I made a toilet cake on Bake Off because flushing with the lid up is unhygienic beyond belief’

The Star Wars actor takes your questions on the terror of cooking on TV, saving lives via a CPR video and dealing with crises

The Apprentice actor Sebastian Stan says Hollywood stars are ‘afraid’ of Trump

None of his peers would appear with him on a chatshow the actor claimed, setting an ominous precedent for the industry’s interactions with Trump after he comes into power

Snow Leopard review – enigmatic tale of man v beast is late Tibetan film-maker’s final word

Pema Tseden’s swan song about the fate of a snow leopard imprisoned by a vengeful farmer gains new layers of political meaning following the director’s death

Layla review – heartbreak looms in coming-of-age yarn of a secret affair and queer identity

A drag artist from a strict Muslim family embarks on a relationship with a strait-laced executive in Amrou Al-Kadhi’s strong feature debut

‘Nothing left except quivering protoplasm’: the man who pedalled a plane across the Channel

In 1979 a group of neurodivergent men embarked on an epic crossing, now immortalised on screen in The Flight of Bryan

Could this be a historic year for trans representation at the Oscars?

Films like Emilia Pérez and Will & Harper make for vastly different yet similarly unprecedented awards contenders

Raoul Peck on his Ernest Cole film: ‘I wanted to give him the total podium’

The director of I Am Not Your Negro focuses on the South African photographer who covered apartheid in his homeland before working in the US

Blink review – family’s poignant bucket list trip turns into glossy travelogue

A couple who discover that three of their four children have a degenerative eye disease go on a round-the-world family holiday in this beautifully shot but saccharine documentary

Liverpool Story: Portrait of a City review – city symphony goes down the identity route

Daniel Draper’s ultra-fluid style, trailing his finger across the surface of the city’s life, loses its narrative path

‘I couldn’t look away!’ The rapid, runaway rise of ridiculous Christmas romcoms

It’s that season again, when the streamers bring us hot snowmen and heroes who still believe in Santa. Why are they competing to make the most ludicrous movie possible – and why do we keep watching them?

I Want to Talk review – Abhishek Bachchan is Mad Men-style ad man who declares war on cancer

A greater degree of setup would have given this story of a Don Draper type’s determination to beat a terminal diagnosis more dramatic heft