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The Unknown review – Léa Seydoux gets invaded in uncanny and bizarre body-swap horror

Cannes film festival: A man is terrified to wake up in Seydoux’s body in this metempsychotic mystery film about gender identity

Melbourne psychiatrist refuses new patients who don’t consent to AI note-taking

Registration form informs patients that if they do not wish AI to be used, they will need their referring doctor to refer them to a different service provider

Australia’s social media ban preventing teenagers from accessing the news, research finds

Half of the teenagers who have been blocked say they are seeing less news than before – but they are not necessarily going back to traditional sources

Hope review – non-stop gonzo alien battling is top-quality entertainment

Cannes film festival: Na Hong-jin’s melee of running, chasing and shouting at the angry invaders is uproarious fun, mixing digital work with old-school spectacle

‘The film humanised Russians at a time when Rambo was killing them’: how we made Letter to Brezhnev

‘All of Kirkby turned out for the premiere – many of them had been extras. And 500 people crammed into my mum’s council house for a party. It’s still talked about’

Anthropic to share Mythos cyber flaw findings with global finance watchdog

Startup has declined to release Claude Mythos AI model publicly amid fears it could be used by hackers

‘Capitalism has to become more humane’: a Stanford economist on big tech, power hoarding and democracy

Mordecai Kurz argues tech oligarchs erode democracy through monopolies – and predicts how the trend may end

By offering all Emilys a free medium Coke per ticket, Showcase Cinemas prove their commitment to drama

Showcase Cinemas is offering a medium Coca-Cola to anyone called Emily who goes to see new romcom Finding Emily this weekend. But what if 35,000 thirsty Emilys turn up?

Tribe review – compelling, unsettling search for a lost sect in the California mountains

Dan Asma’s impressive debut feature follows a retired professor, played by the director himself, whose research leads him to Lovecraftian terrors

The return of Westworld is perfect timing for the flattery-oriented age of AI

Now that real life has caught up with science fiction, the imminent danger isn’t malfunctioning cowboys, it’s the robots convincing us that we’re great and everything is totally fine

‘A lot of people don’t think I can act’: Wallace Shawn on Hollywood, therapy and speaking out on Palestine

At 82, the character actor is as frank and fired-up as ever with two hit stage shows and a summer blockbuster on the way. He’s embracing being odd, he says, even if everyone doesn’t quite get it

Woken review – shonky post-apocalyptic horror sends an amnesiac into the plague zone

The acting is fine and the imagery brooding, but this tepid sci-fi – all creepy neighbours, hazmat squads and crustacean-faced infected – is in thrall to better films

The French are hitting their protein goals – thanks to a cheese that looks like ectoplasm

La cancoillotte, a low-fat liquid cheese product, has somehow taken the country of haute cuisine by storm, writes Emma Beddington

‘An antidote to all things stressful’: why Stardust is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers calling attention to their most rewatched comfort films is a celebration of the star-packed 2007 fantasy

Voidance review – very British sci-fi movie is like Miss Marple with a space blaster

There’s plenty of charm in the low-budget inventiveness of this low-budget murder mystery set in a Wetherspoon’s for interstellar truckers

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