Hold on to Her review – horrific death of a two-year-old puts immigration crackdown in spotlight

Robin Vanbesien’s documentary uses the horrific killing of two-year-old Mawda Shawri in Belgium as the starting point to explore the dehumanising machinery of border policy

Co-writer of Oscar-nominated film It Was Just an Accident arrested in Iran

Mehdi Mahmoudian detained after signing statement condemning Iran’s supreme leader for recent bloodshed

‘Endlessly quotable’: why Wayne’s World is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their most rewatched comfort films is a trip back to 1992 for the unique rock comedy

Shelter review – super-soldier Jason Statham does the business as he takes on Bill Nighy in action thriller

Ric Roman Waugh’s predictable plot redeemed by fight choreography as Statham faces up to Bill Nighy, and casting of young Hamnet actor Bodhi Rae Breathnach

Seasons review – it’s Ibsen vs Peter Pan in chronicle of actors messing up their lives on and off stage

Polish director-writer Michal Grzybowski’s film has inspired flashes, but mostly eschews humour for a drearier take on the intertwining of stage and life

‘Yes, they would execute a child’: the film about a girl who has to bake a birthday cake for Saddam Hussein

Warm, funny and heartbreaking, The President’s Cake tells the story of a brutal ruler and a girl forced to make him a present in a time of sanctions-induced hardship. Its Iraqi director Hasan Hadi remembers his own fearful childhood

Viral AI personal assistant seen as step change – but experts warn of risks

OpenClaw is billed as ‘the AI that actually does things’ and needs almost no input to potentially wreak havoc

Do You Love Me review – exhilarating documentary is ode to the collective courage of Lebanese people

In this freewheeling film Lana Daher draws from more than 20,000 hours of archival footage to channel the resilient spirit of Beirut

What is Moltbook? The strange new social media site for AI bots

A bit like Reddit for artificial intelligence, Moltbook allows AI agents – bots built by humans – to post and interact with each other. People are allowed as observers only

Why should renters like me have to trade away our privacy just to get a roof over our heads?

The rise in real estate tech means renters often hand over huge amounts of revealing information to digital third parties – at great risk

Steven Spielberg becomes an Egot after winning Grammy for John Williams documentary

Director says Grammy for best music film ‘means the world to me’ as he pays tribute to composer and collaborator

Snapchat blocks more than 400,000 Australian accounts but warns of ‘significant gaps’ in under-16s social media ban

Social media platform says there are still ‘real technical limitations to accurate and dependable age verification’

Dead Souls review – Alex Cox rides into sunset with anti-Trump spaghetti western

The Repo Man director relocates Gogol’s surreal novella to the old west in what he says will be his final film

Melania film earns $7m in US, strongest documentary debut in over a decade

Melania, however, cost significantly more than a typical documentary, at $40m to make and $35m to promote

‘It’s really sad’: US TikTok users rethink app over concerns about privacy and censorship

Some users are stepping away from the app after it made a deal to create a US entity and updated terms and conditions