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Deep Water review – plane-crash survivors play existential roulette with bitey fish

Renny Harlin’s disaster movie brings aquatic mayhem along with suspense and schadenfreude as aircraft passengers battle to survive hungry sharks

The Last First Time review – queer coming-of-age drama gives itself up to pleasure

A Mexican student’s post-exams night out becomes a heady voyage of self-discovery in this slight but joyful coming-of-age drama

Microsoft Surface Laptop 8 review: a quality PC whose trackpad taps you back

Snappy performance, long battery life, great keyboard and excellent new haptic touchpad make the best of Windows 11

‘Just a local’: rural New Zealand fondly remembers Sam Neill, its everyday star

Sam Neill raised money for the community cinema and traded banter in the local cafe, so to residents of the small towns near where he lived, the actor fitted right in

‘He made wine and he shared it. What more do you want?’: Sam Neill remembered by his co-stars

The actors Lindsay Duncan and Charles Dance, alongside director Peter Webber, pay tribute to a practical joker, unpretentious craftsman and ‘very cool guy’

Sam Neill’s final films tell us a lot about who he was as an actor – and why we’ll miss him

A character actor in a leading man’s body, he gave balls-to-the-wall performances in a subversively varied career

Christopher Nolan fans are embarking on epic journeys to see The Odyssey the way he wants them to

Cinephiles are crossing oceans to see the film at its highest possible resolution – and only 41 cinemas in the world are equipped to do it

I interviewed Sam Neill in 2024. He was even more charming than I’d expected

The actor, who has died aged 78, was refreshingly candid about Hollywood, filmmaking, his cancer treatment – and why he preferred life on his New Zealand farm to the movie business

Tom Cruise unveils remarkable transformation in Digger trailer: ‘I’ve never had something that could challenge me in this way’

The new Alejandro González Iñárritu film sees Cruise playing an eccentric oil baron on a mission to save the world

How ‘unbothered’ Victoria Beckham became one of the World Cup’s biggest memes

England’s quarter-final match against Norway has spawned a new hero online – and it’s not Jude Bellingham …

Australia banned vape ads more than two years ago – so why are they still all over social media?

Posts promoting illegal products appear across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube as expert says platforms ‘aren’t doing the job they promised they would do’

Albanese to compare pivotal moment in AI to renewable energy transition as he outlines approach

Labor sources say the PM will discuss safety concerns in speech this week but will not provide an update on copyright reforms to protect artists

Sam Neill was a warm, wry and unselfish star who twinkled so others could shine

His unshowy gifts, which discreetly carried arthouse drama and blockbuster adventures alike, never sucked a movie’s oxygen in to his own performance

Hello from the outside: heat domes impeding radio and other signals in US midwest

Higher temperatures can cause radio, TV and microwave signals to travel hundreds of miles farther, upsetting communications

Ladies First has been panned. It’s still an essential watch

The Netflix gender-flip comedy film, in which Sacha Baron Cohen wakes to a world run by female chauvinists, is a valuable testimony to the enduring destructive force of gender bias

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  • ‘She wasn’t acting, she wanted to live it’: how a fake pregnancy resulted in the wildest true crime film of the year
  • It’s the vibe: Australian comedy classic The Castle set to become a stage play
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  • David Jonsson: the London rising star handpicked to be the new Black Panther
  • Plas Johnson obituary
  • ‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster
  • ‘It reminded me of James Bond’: Guardian readers on The Odyssey
  • Boss of startup hacked by rogue OpenAI agent urges ‘radical transparency’ in investigation
  • Tom Holland says some of his films are ‘shit’ and people shouldn’t see them
  • Charli xcx portrait added to National Portrait Gallery collection
  • Alarm at NHS patient records being put under control of US private equity firm
  • The Phantom Pain of Rojava review – Kurdish veterans of the war against IS tell story of courage and survival
  • Joyce Carol Oates thinks the 90s TV adaptation of The Odyssey is the best. I beg to differ
  • ‘The greatest album never made’: the untold story of George Michael’s secret, star-packed duets project
  • There was one thing I swore I’d never do on WhatsApp. And now I’ve gone and done it
  • Unauthorised version of Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey shared on X
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  • ‘I thought it didn’t stand a cat’s chance in hell’: Andrew Ridgeley on Wham’s surreal trip to China
  • ‘My mother was 4ft 11in and scared the hell out of people’ – Sean Astin on child stardom, The Lord of the Rings and surviving 45 years in Hollywood
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