‘You know when you’ve hit it – it’s a transformation’: Ruth E Carter on building the bold world of Sinners

The two-time Oscar winner on dressing Michael B Jordan’s twin antiheroes, her start with Spike Lee and crafting the period detail of Ryan Coogler’s genre-bending epic

Macdo review – Mexican camcorder drama sees bickering siblings throw insults, telenovela style

Fractured relationships lead to shocking revelations in a film bogged down with stylistic embellishments that detract from the on screen drama

TV tonight: Jonathan Ross handcuffs mismatched pairs in a bold new show

Couples are sent on a road trip around the UK with hopes of winning a big cash prize. Plus: the must-watch season finale of Industry. Here’s watch to watch this evening

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all

Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz

‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda

Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, but has left him in exile

Actor awards 2026: Michael B Jordan, Jessie Buckley and Catherine O’Hara among big winners

The previously named Screen Actors Guild (Sag) awards also saw wins for the ensemble casts of Sinners and The Studio, while Harrison Ford took home lifetime achievement

Hundreds of UK teenagers to pilot social media bans and restrictions

Trials to form part of three-month consultation on Keir Starmer’s plans to tackle negative effects of smartphone use

Delroy Lindo thankful for ‘love and support’ after N-word incident at Baftas

Lindo speaks out after man with Tourette syndrome shouted slur while actor was on stage with Michael B Jordan

US military reportedly used Claude in Iran strikes despite Trump’s ban

Trump calls Anthropic a ‘Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about’

Datacentre developers face calls to disclose effect on UK’s net emissions

Campaign groups write to technology secretary amid concerns that sites could double overall electricity demand

Readers reply: what would happen to the world if computer said yes?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions asks whether we could cope with a world where computer gave up saying no …

Shia LaBeouf blames ‘small man complex’ for alleged assaults and homophobic slurs

Transformers film franchise star says ‘big gay people are scary’ to him in interview and he doesn’t want to go to rehab

The Pentagon says it’s ‘lethalitymaxxing’. Why has ‘incel’ slang crossed into the mainstream?

With the rise of influencer Clavicular and ‘looksmaxxers’, sexist language from niche memes has infiltrated official government accounts and NYT headlines

Ex-minister adds to UK calls for ban on political donations in cryptocurrency

Exclusive: Labour’s Rushanara Ali plans to intervene in elections bill amid warnings of foreign interference

AI-resistant ‘halo’ stocks drive UK and EU markets to record highs

Investors shifting to ‘heavy-asset, low-obsolescence’ companies insulated from disruption, says Goldman Sachs