Melania drops 67% at US box office as Rotten Tomatoes defends record-breaking audience scores
Despite an expanded release to some 2,000 screens, the gushing enthusiasm recorded on the vox pop Popcornometer is not powering a word-of-mouth hit
EU threatens to act over Meta blocking rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp
Firm accused of ‘abusing’ its dominant position for messaging in what appears to be breach of antitrust rules
Russian military scrambles to find Starlink alternative after access blocked
Elon Musk’s SpaceX curbs illicit use of satellite internet network, which Ukraine says is already affecting operations
Sony Pictures chief calls racist Trump video ‘despicable’ in rare intervention
Tom Rothman, CEO of the major Hollywood film studio, described a clip depicting the Obamas that was posted on Truth Social as ‘regressive’
Post your questions for George Takei
The Star Trek star will have lots to say about playing Sulu, but you can also ask about his books and stage career – and getting fired by Donald Trump
‘If I didn’t write about him, I’m afraid I might become him’: the making of Taxi Driver at 50
Screenwriter Paul Schrader talks the inspiration and legacy of Martin Scorsese’s incendiary New York nightmare
Stitch Head review – animated adaptation of hit Frankenstinian tale hangs loosely together
Asa Butterfield leads a cast of freaks looking for acceptance and love in a harsh and uncaring world in this rather melancholy version of Guy Bass’s kid-lit series
‘It’s like two divorcing parents’: how actors’ union Equity fell out with casting directory Spotlight
Union to appeal after losing case against historic talent index in battle that could reshape UK acting landscape
‘Reconciliation across difference’: why Practical Magic is my feelgood movie
The next entry in our ongoing series of writers highlighting their favourite comfort films is a journey back to 1998 with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman
I asked AI to name my wife. To the hopelessly incorrect people it cited, my deepest apologies
Authors, a newsreader, a lawyer and an esteemed colleague: they’re all great – but I’m not married to any of them. Can we really depend on this technology, asks cartoonist and author Martin Rowson
What We Hide review – opioid-crisis thriller sees sisters pick up the pieces and hide their mother’s dead body
Both the leads are good value in Dan Kay’s movie in which Jessie and Spider hide conceal a corpse to avoid being separated in the care system
‘I’m not blaming Bond for screwing up my career’: Maryam d’Abo on playing a thieving writer on stage – and a sniper cellist in 007
The former Bond girl talks about her new role as a top writer accused of stealing a story as her actor husband is cancelled – and why she has no regrets about her time aboard the 007 rollercoaster
‘The music could not stop for three days’: how Sirāt went on a road trip to the dark heart of rave
Club culture is notoriously hard to capture on film. Oscar-tipped director Oliver Laxe explains why he had to organise his own music festival in the Moroccan desert to find deeper meaning in dance-floor ecstasy
Larry (They/Them) review – trans photographer’s colourful creative journey into everyday life
Documentary following Laurence Philomène captures the vibrant palette of their work – and the shadows cast over it by prejudice
Logitech MX Master 4 review: the best work mouse you can buy
Ergonomic shape, quality materials and satisfying clicks, now with novel haptic feedback and repairable design