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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair – what does the new Tarantino cut offer?

The director’s two-part revenge saga has now been released as one mammoth movie with several tweaks and additions

‘He’s the new Daniel Day-Lewis’: Margot Robbie defends Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights

Robbie addresses backlash to casting Elordi as a character described by Brontë as ‘dark-skinned’, while Fennell praises her female star’s ‘big dick energy’

‘Not approved for human use’: the online frenzy for injectable peptides sweeping Australia

Social media is driving a boom in the use of peptides to improve appearance and physical performance. Many are experimental and come with risk of serious side effects

Russell Crowe’s 20 best roles – sorted!

With Nuremberg out in Australian cinemas, we cast an eye over Rusty’s eclectic, varied and downright impressive oeuvre. Are you not entertained?

‘I’ve had all the luck you can get’: Michael Caine retires for the fourth time

The 92-year-old actor made the announcement again as he received an award at the Red Sea international film festival in Saudi Arabia

Belle Gibson drama Apple Cider Vinegar leads 2026 Aacta award nominations

Netflix miniseries about wellness scammer lands 20 nominations, while Adelaide-made horror hit Bring Her Back dominates film categories

‘My God, what a story it would make’: film-maker Kevin Brownlow on It Happened Here and Winstanley

Brownlow is best known for restoring silent movies, but in conjunction with Andrew Mollo, he made two features, in 1964 and 1975, that look astonishingly prescient today

Trump’s billionaire backers dress influence as generosity

Michael Dell’s $6.25bn gift spotlights how the super-rich use ‘charity’ to win access, favour and influence

Elon Musk’s X fined €120m by EU in first clash under new digital laws

Ruling could put European Commission on collision course with billionaire, and possibly Donald Trump

Home Office admits facial recognition tech issue with black and Asian subjects

Calls for review after technology found to return more false positives for ‘some demographic groups’ on certain settings

Flights resume at Edinburgh airport after air traffic control issue – as it happened

Services had been grounded due to a technical issue with air traffic control

Tesla launches cheaper version of Model 3 in Europe amid Musk sales backlash

CEO Elon Musk says lower-cost electric car will reignite demand by appealing to broader range of buyers

Labour wants to ramp up facial recognition. What if our data ends up in the wrong hands?

We know from recent hacks, and even the Snowden revelations, how vulnerable information gathered is to theft and misuse, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Alto Knights to Under the Stars: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Robert De Niro stars in a bloody mafia saga from the writer of Goodfellas, while Toni Collette and Andy Garcia charm in a flirtatious rom-dram

‘The goal was to scare a kid’: the wild world of films-within-films

From Angels With Filthy Souls in Home Alone, to Deception in The Holiday, fake movies are taking on a life of their own

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  • OnlyFans for Therapy review – a brave and unsettling emotional exposure
  • Inside a meme factory: meet one of thousands of Indonesians trading political outrage clicks for Facebook cash
  • I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming review – brilliant bulletin from Ukrainian frontline dives deep into culture war
  • Most X accounts posting about Belfast and Southampton unrest were based outside UK
  • ‘I’ve definitely lost followers’: influencers face backlash over Meta ‘pervert glasses’ content
  • AI push is putting banks at mercy of tech firms, warns Moody’s
  • ‘Watch The Odyssey for free online’: scam targets film fans with fake streaming sites
  • The hill I will die on: Remove those earphones – you’re blocking out the music of humanity
  • OpenAI to pause some work on AI model Astra due to security concerns
  • Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role
  • Parenting is hard. Should we let AI do it for us?
  • Sex, drugs and washing dishes: inside Anthony Bourdain’s unruly younger years
  • ‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
  • Rising number of UK children report seeing explicit deepfakes of themselves
  • The Guide #255: The great front‑row backlash ignores what makes films feel truly colossal
  • Human Centipede director Tom Six reveals multiple sclerosis diagnosis in ‘final film’
  • ‘I’ve always felt too old and too young at the same time’: The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey on swapping child stardom for cult television – and Celebrity Traitors
  • From Love Me Tender to Kevin Bridges: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • Russia-linked accounts spread far-right narrative online during Ceuta migration crisis, analysis finds
  • This man was secretly snapped by someone with smartglasses. He’s not alone in calling that a violation of privacy
  • Sam Neill filmed role in Legend of Zelda film adaptation before his death
  • The White House’s plan to vet potentially dangerous AI is cloaked in secrecy
  • Out of the blue: James Cameron’s surprise departure would be good for Avatar
  • Hamnet to On Falling: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • I stand to defend vertical drinking. Is a pub that doesn’t allow it a real pub at all?
  • The Last House review – post-Covid apocalyptic lockdown thriller is a solid night in
  • ‘These cooks ripped each other apart’: Dominic Sessa on playing Anthony Bourdain, kitchen bullies and the joys of being a 70s barfly
  • New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
  • Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by AI

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