TikTok signs Trump-backed deal to avoid US ban
Joint venture will take over part of app’s US operations, including data protection, algorithm security and content moderation
Avatar: Fire and Ash review – witchy new sex interest can’t save this gigantically dull hunk of nonsense
The third Avatar chapter erupts with volcanic world-building and thunderous action yet remains a vast, dazzling spectacle in search of an emotional arc
Television in titbits: the rise of the billion-dollar microdrama industry
Hollywood is betting big on vertical microdramas, told in chunks under two minutes. Can a gimmick turn into a new form of entertainment?
Chase Infiniti: ‘My parents freaked out more than me when I said I was acting opposite Leonardo DiCaprio’
The breakout star of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (the Guardian’s No 1 film of 2025) on learning karate, her love of car chases – and how she got her name
Best films of 2025 in the UK: No 1 – One Battle After Another
Leonardo DiCaprio is a former revolutionary searching for his daughter in Paul Thomas Anderson’s exhilaratingly audacious counterculture epic
The 50 best films of 2025 in the UK
Brilliant biopics, daring documentaries and a host of chillers and thrillers – our critics pick the best from another sensational year of cinema
A Minecraft Movie to Paddington 2: the 14 best films to watch on TV over Christmas
Jack Black gifts us an extremely silly flight of fancy set in a right-angled world, and Hugh Grant has the time of his life in the most perfect movie ever made. Plus: mulled wine in film form!
What will your life look like in 2035?
When AIs become consistently more capable than humans, life could change in strange ways. Here we look at how the era of artificial general intelligence might feel
Making Mary Poppins by Todd James Pierce review – the musical brothers behind the movie magic
Bob and Dick Sherman take centre stage in this well-researched account of how Walt Disney created a classic
Proposal to allow use of Australian copyrighted material to train AI abandoned after backlash
Productivity Commission recommends waiting three years to establish review into technology after furious response from creative industries
UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’
Analysis suggests consumption at Northumberland site could be 50 times higher than US operator QTS estimates
Paddington and Wonka director Paul King to direct Labubu movie
Film based on popular plush toys is in early development after Sony Pictures acquired screen rights
May Britt, Swedish actor and former wife of Sammy Davis Jr, dies aged 91
Britt, whose marriage to Davis in 1960 provoked threats due to racism and anti-miscegenation laws in the US, has died of natural causes in Los Angeles
Denmark says Russia was behind two ‘destructive and disruptive’ cyber-attacks
Intelligence service says attacks were work of groups connected to Russian state in ‘clear evidence’ of hybrid war
Facebook tests charging users to share links in potential blow for news outlets
News organisations fear move could hit newsrooms and other media publishers by stopping users sharing their content