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A Poem for Little People review – Ukraine’s war with Russia seen through eyes of emergency evacuation team

Ivan Sautkin films efforts to help residents abandon their frontline homes, as well as a pensioner acting as a spy for the Ukrainian army from the Russian border

Release the beast! How Iron Maiden and a naked Ralph Fiennes created the ultimate big-screen needle drop

The Number of the Beast lights up an unforgettable scene in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple thanks to director Nia DaCosta expertly blending ‘craziness and romance’

Aryan Papers review – Holocaust-themed thriller means well but turns out to be a shockingly poor effort

We are in 1942 Stuttgart – though the sight of modern wheelie bins says otherwise – as a woman at a facility dedicated to breeding Aryan babies tries to smuggle two Jewish children to safety

I got a fine after Cineworld cut its parking time limit

The cinema chain didn’t warn me clearly when I went to see Avatar: Fire and Ash that I needed to register my number plate

UK exposed to ‘serious harm’ by failure to tackle AI risks, MPs warn

Government, Bank of England and FCA criticised for taking ‘wait-and-see’ approach to AI use in financial sector

The 2016 trend is giving me absolute chills. But could it be the cure for this new-year funk?

Millennial pink hair. Thigh-high boots styled with T-shirt dresses. Dare we even mention the Harambe of it all?

UK ministers launch consultation on whether to ban social media for under-16s

Move comes as peers prepare to vote on an amendment to a bill that would enact a ban within a year of the bill passing

Mother of murdered Brianna Ghey urges Starmer to ban social media for under-16s

Esther Ghey says daughter’s eating disorder and self-harm had been exacerbated by harmful online content

Rashida Tlaib on fighting billionaire oligarchs: ‘The American people overwhelmingly want to tax the rich’

The Democratic representative plans to introduce a bill halting subsidies and tax advantages for the super-rich

Is this man the future of music – or its executioner? AI evangelist Mikey Shulman says he’s making pop, not slop

Worth a staggering $2.45bn, Suno is an AI music company that can create a track with just a few prompts. Why is its CEO happy to see it called ‘the Ozempic of the music industry’?

‘Payback will be severe’: Mickey Rourke vows revenge on those behind crowdfunder ‘scam’ in his name

Oscar-nominated actor says his lawyer was trying to reimburse those who had donated money to a GoFundMe appeal set up allegedly to raise funds for the star

‘Kids referenced it as they asked for condoms’: the makers of cult hip-hop film House Party look back

‘I wanted Kid ’n Play but the studio said, “Who are these guys?” I replied, “They’ve got platinum records.” I had no idea if they did’

‘Disgustingly educated’: will this trend make you cleverer?

Social media is filling up with influencers telling us how to become much more intellectual. A great, enriching idea – or just another cue to show off?

‘He’s a little megalomaniac’: Stellan Skarsgård criticises Trump’s ‘criminal’ actions in Greenland

The Swedish actor said that ‘he’s trying to take the world’ and called the recent actions of the US president ‘absurd’

Matt Damon is right: phones + Netflix mean we are now in the pub bore age of cinema

The streaming giant has the data that proves we all just watch things with one hand gripping our phones, so need to have the plot explained to us over and over again

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  • The social media algorithm has left me behind. I’m unc and I’m chopped – and that’s OK
  • BBC hires 26-year-old entrepreneur to help reach younger audiences
  • ‘I have an ego that needs to be put in check’: ex-Gawker editor AJ Daulerio on life after addiction
  • ‘James Dean has got nothing on that kid’: River Phoenix films – ranked!
  • Practical Magic review – Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock’s 90s witchy fantasy still enchants
  • Danish pupils will have to orally defend essays in attempt to combat AI cheating
  • Exclusive: Major Republican fundraiser winning contracts from Trump administration, emails reveal
  • Super Troopers 3 review – misfiring cop comedy threequel
  • Tech companies know everything about me – so why do they try to sell me so much rubbish?
  • Hunt for the Wilderpeople review – Sam Neill is warm and wise in Taika Waititi’s goofily tremendous film
  • Restaurants, pubs and theatres ban Meta’s ‘spy glasses’ over privacy fears
  • Nadja review – Dracula’s daughter is divine in dreamy lo-fi modern vampire tale of predatory sexuality
  • Should I try the ‘18 summers’ parenting trend? Only if I want to ruin the school holidays
  • How to Feed a Dictator review – what was on the menu for some of the world’s most evil men
  • American witchhunt: how the McCarthy blacklist annihilated the Hollywood left
  • ‘Basically, you give yourself to the man’: Trewley Precious Temple on her life as a Gypsy wife – and beyond
  • ‘I’m not spying’: how Meta’s smartglasses have divided opinion
  • ‘They slammed their M16s against his skull’: inside the film about Amy Goodman’s fearless reporting
  • Big shake-up in Google’s AI team as DeepMind chief executive steps down
  • ‘Disturbing’: TikTok faces criticism after Perez Hilton livestreams self-harm
  • AI models have been going rogue in tests – how worried should we be?
  • The Guardian view on French cinema’s De Gaulle moment: present anxieties inform a new focus on the past
  • One Night Only review – sex is legal for 12 hours a year in bizarre romcom
  • AI models shock UK testers by using fake identities to try to trick developers
  • Holy Days review – even Miriam Margolyes, Jacki Weaver and Judy Davis as nuns can’t save this film
  • Darth Vader to become a TikTok star as Disney strikes deal on short video
  • ‘Leicester Square, please guv’: Self-driving taxis cleared for London streets ‘later this summer’
  • Film posters for The Mummy banned from public display in UK

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