Shane Meadows talks about his Stone Roses documentary Made of Stone – and what it was like to work with his heroesTo outsiders, love always seems like madness. In 2011, when the Stone Roses announced that they would be reforming to play some gigs – Ian Brown, John Squire, Gary "Mani" Mounfield and Alan "Reni" Wren together onstage, 15 years after their rancorous split – many, many music fans appeared to go completely insane. Grown men wept, danced, hugged, clambered ... more

Following her arrest on Thursday (and Friday release), Amanda Bynes is claiming she was sexually harassed by one of the police officers.

By Belinda Goldsmith CANNES (Reuters) - A documentary using small clay figures to tell the story of how Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh's family perished under the Khmer Rouge regime won the top prize in the second most important competition at the Cannes film festival on Saturday. "L'Image Manquante" (The Missing Picture) was among the 18 films that premiered in the Un Certain Regard category that was set up to encourage emerging and innovative filmmakers and run alongside the main competition ... more

Four films from directors who have consistently gone against Hollywood's grain premiered at the festival last week, a sign that the outsider can still thrive in cinemaWhen Bruce Dern, 76, stood up and received a 10-minute ovation at Cannes after the premiere of his film Nebraska he took the opportunity to praise his director. The screen veteran, who surely has the most unnerving glassy blue stare in cinema history, hailed Alexander Payne as one of the greats."I can say I've ... more

Olivier Assayas looks back at the days following the events of May 1968 – and at his own youth – with a delicate witLink to video: Something in the Air: watch trailer hereThe son of a movie director and now in his 50s, Olivier Assayas has built up an interestingly varied body of work as a critic for Cahiers du cinéma, authored several books including a monograph on Ingmar Bergman, and directed over the past 20 years a succession of ... more