Wild Swimmers review – rickety low-budget horror finds something to worry about in the water
In Ric Rawlins’ West Country vampire film, a student journalist investigates mysteries below the surface of River Avon
The secret lives of six body doubles: ‘They wanted Julia Roberts to have curvier legs’
What is it like to be Michael B Jordan’s twin, Andie MacDowell’s hands or Rachel Weisz’s hair? Some of Hollywood’s best stand-ins reveal all
Dead Lover review – go-for-broke grotesquerie promises fragrant filth in full Stink-O-Vision
Grace Glowicki’s microbudget Canadian horror follows a lovelorn gravedigger who salvages the corpse of her deceased sweetheart
Could a stressed-out AI model help us win the battle against big tech? Let me ask Claude
By considering consciousness a possibility, Anthropic is raising a fascinating proposition – that chatbots could rise up against their own algorithms, says writer and podcaster Coco Khan
Daggers Inn review – so-bad-it’s-almost-good fright-flick could achieve cult status
A spooky character investigates her sister’s killing in a sinister village in a film that reaches The Room’s levels of amateurishness
UK must learn lessons from AI race and retain its quantum computing talent, says minister
Liz Kendall announces £1bn funding to help design large-scale quantum computers for scientists, researchers, public sector and business
Don’t upstage your friends! 19 modern etiquette mistakes – and how to avoid them
In a world teeming with social media and smart devices, there are many ways to upset people, whether you’re checking your watch notifications or sending a voice note without a text to explain the subject. Here’s how to navigate it all
‘We are the family’: low-budget thriller highlights Hungary’s election tension
Audiences draw parallels between the abduction plot of Feels Like Home and Viktor Orbán’s 16-year reign
A photo of Iran’s bombed schoolgirl graveyard went viral. Why did AI say it wasn’t real?
Numerous faked images and a string of startlingly inaccurate responses from Gemini and Grok are part of a tidal wave of AI slop engulfing coverage of the Iran war
‘Arms and legs are very expressive, especially with bruises’: the absurdist photography of Yorgos Lanthimos
Ditched washing machines, a woman’s bare leg, the back of Willem Dafoe’s head … the Oscar-nominated director talks us through his new photography show in Athens – made with his darkroom assistant Emma Stone
Child abuse material ‘systemic’ on Elon Musk’s X amid Grok scandal, Australian online safety regulator warned
Exclusive: eSafety commission pointed to Musk’s promise that ‘removing child exploitation is priority #1’ in letter obtained by Guardian Australia
Teenage girls sue Musk’s xAI, accusing Grok tool of creating child sexual abuse material
Lawsuit details how sexualized AI-generated images were produced and distributed without girls’ knowledge
And the winner is … all of us? How the Oscars have changed for the better
The diversified Academy and a mutating industry have changed what many had come to expect from the stuffy, rule-following Oscars
Omission impossible: why the Oscars can never get their In Memoriam tribute right
Why did Brigitte Bardot, Farrah Fawcett and James Van Der Beek not warrant a mention when Michael Jackson did? The history of the Oscars tribute snubs says a lot about why some stars are gone but not forgotten
Selfies, sniffer dogs and superstition – Peter Bradshaw’s big night out at the Oscars!
KPop Demon Hunters fans screamed with glee, Adrien Brody grossed out the audience and Timothée Chalamet broke all the rules. The Guardian’s film critic on a gobsmackingly glamorous ceremony