films

Shock therapy: why scary movies keep evolving – and making money | Horror films

Love+War review – Lynsey Addario’s courageous photojournalism shines out in occasionally odd study | Documentary films

Shelby Oaks review – junky Halloween horror delivers zero scares | Horror films

‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system | Documentary films

Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story – exhilarating record of game-changing photographer | Documentary films

Streaming services play October 7 films, documentaries

‘The world needs to know what happened to my baby’: inside devastating new police bodycam film The Perfect Neighbor | Documentary films

‘Go woke, go broke’? New study challenges claims progressive films flop at the box office | Film

Liev Schreiber and Debra Messing among names rejecting pledge to boycott Israeli films | Film

‘Abject horror’: the troubling history of paedophile-hunting TV shows | Documentary films

‘It’s so different from the media narrative’: telling a different story of 7 October | Documentary films