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Nintendo Switch; Nintendo As ever, Mario’s brother is a scream, but this remaster is haunted by the spectre of its much better sequel – and the price might spook you

The much-anticipated sequel to the director’s 1988 hit Beetlejuice will get its world premiere at the festival in August

A series of bans on volumes with race, gender and LGBTQ+ themes have proliferated in recent years

Ruling leads to claims that BG’s right to free speech unfairly challenged in another case putting rap lyrics on trial

Gordon’s daughter got a cookery show first – and now Jamie’s 13-year-old son is at it. Will each young chef be able to obliterate their father’s career and come out on top?

Rapper was booked for misdemeanour battery over altercation with security guard, but will not be charged after completing community service

Anne Hathaway and Nicole Kidman are romancing younger stars in glossy new romcoms, adding texture to the dreaded cliche of the ‘cougar’

More and more comedians are uploading their improvised encounters with audience members. But do these interactions detract from the craft of standup?

Service offers more than 20,000 films and TV shows on-demand to compete with popular streaming platforms

Maureen Callahan’s eye-opening exposé looks back at the Kennedy men and the women they ‘destroyed’, digging into a long and grisly history

Enigmatic eggs, US army fashion and Japanese women of the sea feature in exhibitions at this year’s French showcase

The cast of Canadian B-boy Crazy Smooth’s new show on their breathtaking moves, their multiple surgeries and why hip-hop needs ‘living libraries’ of experience

Daemon conquers a castle, a bloody battle erupts and the queens have a vital showdown in the sept. But it’s all upstaged by the show’s most shocking nudity scenes yet

The writer pays tribute to the late author, reflecting on how Kadare’s use of the ancient past to make sense of the present renders him essential reading

Born in 1939, De Jong had a six-decade career devoted to asking questions, and her art ranged from abstract to figurative and back again

‘The studio was hesitant about suggesting Xena and Gabrielle were in a romantic relationship. But as time went on, they decided to look the other way and just let us get on with it’

Steve Carell’s everyvillain starts a dull new life but nemesis Will Ferrell’s Maxime Le Mal has other ideas

Film starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Weller marks a high-profile world premiere for the festival, now in its 68th year

Both men deny claims by actor Judith Godrèche, who has formally accused them of abusing her as a teenager

Themes of displacement and diaspora explored in collaborative textile project as part of The Spirits of Maritime Crossing exhibition in Venice and Bangkok

For 15 years I read the books, took the courses and downloaded the apps to try to become a better person. None of it helped

His allegorical stories, informed by life under state communism, drew international praise but he insisted that he was not a political writer

As the weather heats up, Guardian writers pick their defining summer tracks, from Phoenix and Donna Summer to Stevie Wonder

A new season of films celebrates how different directors have found a way to bring Shakespeare’s work forward, from Baz Luhrmann to Derek Jarman

Authors reassess the legacy of the father of psychotherapy in a lovely grab bag of essays

Inspired by the real-life abduction of a wealthy businessman, the second novel from the Fleishman Is in Trouble author is a lip-smacking tale of family, wealth and self-destruction told with relish

In this painful, candid book, a reporter with a history of abuse sits in on Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial, identifying bias in all its forms and dramatising the lives of the victims

Portland has no Live Nation concert arena, and fans and artists love its fiercely independent music scene. But with a new venue looming, will all that change?

What it is about the the haunting classic, Smalltown Boy, that still compels teens to join older generations on the dancefloor?

From watching his father star in Lloyd Webber’s mega-hit in futuristic 1980s Japan, to taking his own family to its reboot in London this year, writer Johny Pitts recounts how Starlight Express has been a thread in his life that has also…