The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo review – haunting queer fable burns with love and menace
Diego Céspedes’s striking debut mixes magic realism and melodrama in a tender tale of an LGBTQ+ community facing fear and superstition in 1980s Chile
‘Bad people’: Alan Cumming criticises Bafta after N-word outburst
The host of the film awards ceremony at which Tourette syndrome activist John Davidson shouted a racial slur has said he won’t host it again
Forget the AI job apocalypse. AI’s real threat is worker control and surveillance
A new divide is emerging: between workers who use AI at work and those who are managed by it
Killer on the Air review – radio call-in hostage thriller puts moral dilemma to tough-love show host
An aggrieved caller puts the host of Sarah Cares to the test, examining the limits of her ideas by threatening to kill her husband’s lover
‘I told him, “Go ahead, do it”’: Juliette Binoche on how a strangling attack as a teen inspired her directorial debut
After four decades reigning the international arthouse, the French actor steps into bracingly raw territory with new documentary In-I In Motion
‘Treats its audience like adults’: why Moneyball is my feelgood movie
The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their favourite comfort films is an ode to Brad Pitt and Aaron Sorkin’s lovably human baseball drama
Queer as Punk review – joyous portrait of Malaysian LGBTQ+ rebels making noise
Yihwen Chen’s warm and galvanising documentary follows queer punk band Shh…Diam! as they battle discrimination with humour and raw energy
What is a ‘Scientology speedrun’ and why is social media suddenly obsessed with it?
The name is deceptive. It’s not about Tom Cruise in tight shorts, but the craze has racked up 90m views for one content creator
UK firefighters called to one lithium-ion battery fire every five hours
FoI responses collected by insurer show brigades tackled 1,760 battery-linked fires in 2025, up 147% in three years
My Father’s Diaries review – haunting home-video excavates trauma of Srebrenica massacre
Ado Hasanović’s moving documentary transforms footage filmed during the Bosnian war into a devastating portrait of memory, survival and inherited grief
‘Forced to preserve a monument’: how the fate of Marilyn Monroe’s LA home became a legal saga
House where Monroe died, which hasn’t been occupied in seven years, is in limbo after current owners wanted to demolish it but were stopped by a public campaign
Britain’s visceral dislike of Keir Starmer illuminates a problem for his successor
There are many good reasons to not like the prime minister. But ours is an age in which hatred is a remarkably popular currency – leaders need a strategy for countering it, says author Samuel Earle
I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment
The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words
‘Amazon of America’: film paints vision of a post-coup Brazil giving up rainforest
Vitória Régia imagines rightwing Bolsonaro plot succeeded with US help – and highlights threats facing Indigenous peoples
How TMZ is finding its footing on the political scene, even after some misfires
The salacious gossip website is hounding politicians and tracking vacationing members of Congress