Experience: I rate benches

My Instagram page started as something to amuse my friends, but it took off – and led to me meeting Sophie, who is now my wife

Klara and the Sun review – Taika Waititi’s manic pixie dream robot sci-fi is a sentimental mess

The director of Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Jojo Rabbit turns Kazuo Ishiguro’s AI fable into a twee, tiresome tale of love and grief

Chris Davies obituary

Other lives: Professor of engineering whose work on light metals established him as a leading researcher in the field

Tell us: have you used AI to help with online dating?

From chat-up lines to social coaching, we’d like to hear from people who use AI to assist them navigating the online dating world

How an accelerating Earth led experts to adopt the leap hour

International delegates agree leap second no longer tenable, but first leap hour not likely to happen for thousands of years

Street Fighter review – nostalgia only goes so far in junky fighting game movie

There are brief, simple pleasures in the inevitable new big screen take on the classic game but like the recent Mortal Kombat movies, it’s a largely incoherent mess

From a VR gay sauna to the gothic pile that inspired Cluedo – Fierce festival storms back

As Britain’s longest-running live art festival returns, get ready for late-night artist dinners, a show in a swimming pool and Faye Driscoll’s incredible rotating disintegration

Cult venue Prince Charles cinema ‘saved’ after lease renewal signed

The much-loved central London institution, which has been threatened with closure since January 2025, secures 25-year lease without break clause with current landlords

‘Stranger than stranger-than-fiction’: how Lance Oppenheim made the year’s two buzziest films

Primetime and You Can See Everything are both clammy, audacious awards contenders that challenge our sense of reality. Ahead of the release of his drama starring Robert Pattinson as a TV vigilante, the 30-year-old director talks crime, punishment and South Park

‘Don’t do this!’ Why Paul McCartney cares about looking shorter than John Lennon in Sam Mendes’ Beatles films

You’re Paul McCartney. So how come you’re still getting het up at a fictional version of you being marginally smaller than a fictional version of John Lennon?

Online ads weaponised to deliver ‘zero-click’ spyware, researchers say

Discover-Tech’s Controlium software lets clients mass-profile internet users then covertly hack targets, say researchers at University of Toronto

Your full attention: Jesse Eisenberg’s 10 best film performances – ranked!

As his new movie The Debut closes the London film festival, we count down the best of the actor’s shy, sly and sometimes hairy outings

Cyril Hilsum obituary

Government physicist whose radar research paved the way for flat-panel TV and computer screens based on liquid crystals

Rebellion review – story of Bradford 12 revisits Britain’s ugly racist past

Ken Fero and Tariq Mehmood’s documentary recalls the fight against racism in 1980s Britain – even if its account of solidarity has a notable omission

Whalefall review – slimy survival thriller traps us in a whale and struggles to make it digestible

Austin Abrams gets eaten by a sperm whale in an overlong and flashback-heavy adaptation of Daniel Kraus’s hit novel that only has us on edge in moments