Musk changes course on Mars quest and shoots for moon – again
Moon was a distraction and Mars the goal for billionaire SpaceX chief – could Trump have influenced his U-turn?
Rose review – Sandra Hüller is outstanding in grimy examination of gender stereotypes
Austrian director Markus Schleinzer’s captivating film follows a woman passing herself off a man in 17th-century rural Germany
Do plans for a new Mummy film signal the end for the multiverse blockbuster franchise?
With audiences fatigued by endlessly interconnected mashups, studios are reverting to movies with one storyline that ends in a natural conclusion – what a radical idea
Every generation gets the Wuthering Heights it deserves. And Emerald Fennell’s is for the always-online
Packed cinemas testify to the allure of Emily Brontë’s tale, even if this latest retelling is not to everyone’s taste, says Guardian arts and culture correspondent Nadia Khomami
Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is a big movie with a very small mind
The maximalist adaptation of the gothic romance shows great interest in production design but very little in character
Lupin the IIIrd the Movie: The Immortal Bloodline review – eye-popping fan-service in latest in anime franchise
Takeshi Koike’s latest take on Monkey Punch’s vintage manga thief is beautifully animated, but the gossamer-thin plot and characterisation mean it’s one for superfans only
‘Unintentionally among the queerest releases of its time’: why Calamity Jane is my feelgood movie
The latest in our ongoing series of writers picking their comfort watches is an appreciation of Doris Day’s rule-defying heroine
Warner Bros Discovery weighs new sale talks after fresh Paramount offer
Board considering whether to re-engage in move that could prompt a second bidding war with Netflix
Collective Monologue review – sensuous zoo study foregrounds contacts between keepers and creatures
Jessica Sarah Rinland’s documentary examines how humans and animals interact in the confines of captivity, but leaves some questions unexplored
TikTok creator ByteDance vows to curb AI video tool after Disney threat
Videos created by new Seedance 2.0 generator go viral, including one of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting
‘I love you twenty-sixty times’: how lyrics written by a three-year-old became tear-inducing viral hits
When Stephen Spencer began setting his daughter’s surreal stories to music, he had 36 followers. Now his banging pop miniatures have been streamed nearly 30m times – and are making parents cry
Google puts users at risk by downplaying health disclaimers under AI Overviews
Exclusive: Google fails to include safety warnings when users are first presented with AI-generated medical advice
‘A permanent civil war in the body’: how fighting cancer helped an artist understand his Soviet youth
A rare lymphoma diagnosis meant Giorgi Gagoshidze had to abandon a film project on the economic factors behind the USSR’s collapse – until he found new meaning in medical terminology
Gangsterism review – dense, high-minded cine-manifesto on the notion of auteurism
Canadian experimentalist Isiah Medina’s latest flits between radical and grandiloquent, but deserves close reading and exasperated sighs in equal measure
Grim reapers: what has fertilised the rich new wave of neo-rural cinema?
The Shepherd and the Bear is part of a new breed of films with a sympathy for country matters that has moved on from othering folk-horror