‘A profound depiction’: Michael Jackson fans support divisive biopic as film smashes records
The long-delayed film has fans dancing in the aisles and has taken more than $200m at the box office
Calls grow to ban Palantir in Australia after manifesto described by UK MP as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’
Spy tech firm says it’s just ‘a software company’ amid pressure for a ban on new contracts with government agencies
It’s time to tax AI slop
We are stuck in a deluge of meaningless content that threatens human creativity. Here’s a simple way to mitigate its harms
The Purge but for sex? One Night Only might be the year’s strangest romcom
A new trailer depicts a normal meet-cute before setting it on the one night a year when single people can legally have sex
Mass review – forgiveness doesn’t come easily in masterly school-shooter drama
Two couples, both of whom have lost sons, meet in Fran Kranz’s unflinching look at restorative justice
Say hello to my little compendium! Al Pacino films – ranked
As the actor turns 86, we rate his greatest screen performances and ask which Godfather was the best of the trilogy
‘They’re as lost and inauthentic as us’: the Oscar winner who made a Farage satire – and released it on WeTransfer
In 2022, Aneil Karia won an Academy Award for his short starring Riz Ahmed. Now, he’s skewering Reform-style parliamentary candidates with the help of Jack Lowden and an unlikely online platform
Highlander review – dodgy accents no trouble to exciting, epic and unashamedly fun 80s blockbuster
Preposterous time-romp, starring Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery, is highly enjoyable if you’re prepared to meet it on its own terms
‘What we’re doing is real justice’: how one New York gym built a pipeline away from prison
Debra Granik’s five-hour documentary shows a former drug dealer turned entrepreneur striving to beat a system that continues to punish those that have served time
Creaky knees be damned – Charlize Theron is showing us what’s possible at 50
Her new film, Apex, may not be Citizen Kane, but how refreshing to see a middle-aged actor as a female action hero, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
Di’Anno – Iron Maiden’s Lost Singer review – metal act’s original singer is a tough act to follow
This entertaining profile of Paul Di’Anno – the heavy metal band’s lead vocalist from 1978 to 1981 – is dragged down by its subject’s irascible nature
Hokum review – Adam Scott dour and grumpy in enjoyably eerie rural horror
A writer’s retreat to the remote Irish hotel in which his parents spent their honeymoon brings him face-to-face with all manner of creepy goings-on in a gruesome and eccentric black-comic shocker
Galaxy S26 review: Samsung’s still-compact flagship Android
Small top-tier Android is great to use, being fast, AI-loaded and with reasonable battery life, but falls short of rivals on camera
BBC responds to interest in Cornish with new language podcast
Learn Cornish launched few months after language given new level of protection
I took an algorithm to court in Sweden. The algorithm won
Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives, says Charlotta Kronblad of the University of Gothenburg