REM x Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr review – classic comedy gets new alt-rock soundtrack
Keaton’s wild invention doesn’t gain much by adding indie guitars, but if they can bring a new audience to this silent classic, who’s listening?
‘A god-tier new classic’: first reactions to Wuthering Heights praise ‘hot, horny’ Emerald Fennell adaptation
The acclaimed latest version of the Emily Brontë bestseller is, however, not without controversies over race and age
Striking Starbucks workers urge customers to delete coffee chain’s app
Unionized baristas continue to fight for a fair contract and ask public for solidarity as strike stretches into third month
V/H/S/Halloween review – plenty of grisly invention in latest helping of engaging horror anthology
Portmanteau series’ latest instalment has nice touches with eerily jolly villains and haunted soda, but it could use a bit of an edit
Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to identify fired workers
Digital pinboard business cutting 15% of workforce as it invests heavily in AI
André Is an Idiot review – a riotously funny, painfully honest film about facing death
A cancer diagnosis becomes the catalyst for gallows humour, rage and hard-won emotional openness in a disarmingly frank film about how to say goodbye
Harry Potter’s Draco Malfoy becomes mascot for year of the horse in China
Mandarin transliteration of character’s name regarded as auspicious, prompting wave of memes and fan art
The Stunt Man review – Peter O’Toole runs amok in a gleefully deranged Hollywood satire
Richard Rush’s cult 1980 comedy-drama turns film-making into a battlefield, with O’Toole’s imperious director blurring art, war and cruelty in a performance of lasting menace
Fairphone 6 review: cheaper, repairable and longer-lasting Android
Sustainable smartphone takes a step forward with modular accessories, a good screen and mid-range performance
Wednesday briefing: How outdated rules on reporting fuel misinformation in high-profile trials
In today’s newsletter: As social media fills the gaps with rumour and conjecture, reporters must navigate a legal framework that has grown heavier, stricter and increasingly out of step with the digital age
When Maga oligarchs control the platforms, it isn’t really a debate about ‘free speech’
Moves to ban under-16s from social media should raise deeper questions about who controls democracy’s digital infrastructure, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
Elon Musk calls Spanish PM a ‘tyrant’ over plan to ban under-16s from social media and curb hateful content
Pedro Sánchez says urgent action needed to protect children from ‘digital wild west’, drawing anger from owner of X
Women in tech and finance at higher risk from AI job losses, report says
‘Mid-career’ female workers also being sidelined by rigid hiring processes, says City of London Corporation
Elon Musk is taking SpaceX’s minority shareholders for a ride
Merger with loss-making xAI looks to some investors more like a bailout than a rocket trip to the future
French headquarters of Elon Musk’s X raided by Paris cybercrime unit
Prosecutors’ announcement comes amid a hardening of European attitudes to social media firms