‘What they’re doing is the worst of humanity’: Sundance festival stars back anti-ICE protest

Elijah Wood joined protest in Utah’s Park City in memory of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, while Natalie Portman said what is happening is ‘absolutely horrific’

Lure review – eligible bachelors dying for romance in Saw-style dating game

The prospect of a stay in a stately pile with a charming young woman is a draw for these hapless gents, but this horror farce never lives up to its promising premise

‘Pushes the nostalgia buttons’: why Enchanted is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers picking their go-to comfort films is a tribute to Amy Adams and what might be her greatest performance

Ryanair says it could use Starlink in future despite Elon Musk feud

Airline raises forecasts for profits and passenger numbers, after boss said spat with Tesla CEO boosted bookings

Silence and Cry review – deeply strange 1960s erotic ballet meditating on Hungary’s history and politics

Director Miklós Jancsó creates a bizarre psychodrama set after the fall of the 1919 Hungarian Soviet republic, encompassing postwar trauma and erotic overtones

UK maker of AI avatars nearly doubles valuation to $4bn after funding round

Synthesia makes digital presenters for clients to use in corporate videos and counts 70% of FTSE 100 as customers

AI is hitting UK harder than other big economies, study finds

Britain is losing more jobs than it creates owing to artificial intelligence, Morgan Stanley research suggests

‘Magical’: how I taught Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor to sing like folk troubadours in The History of Sound

Singer-songwriter Sam Amidon had just three weeks to make the two stars sound like seasoned balladeers. He recalls their charged harmonies in the little shed at the bottom of his garden

Los Saldos review – prodigal big-city son reconnects with his heritage in rural Spain

Raúl Capdevila Murillo’s debut documentary follows the director’s journey back to his farming family, whose way of life is newly endangered

AI systems could use Met Office and National Archives data under UK plans

Ministers plan to license content from institutions such as National History Museum and National Library of Scotland

Life after Molly: Ian Russell on big tech, his daughter’s death – and why a social media ban won’t work

Molly Russell was just 14 when she took her own life in 2017, and an inquest later found negative online content was a significant factor. With many people now pushing for teenagers to be kept off tech platforms, her father explains why he backs a different approach

‘It was a little scary at times’: the hilarious, heartbreaking film about one man’s riotous death

When André Ricciardi found out he had cancer, he asked a friend to film his final years. André Is an Idiot, the result, mixes in stop-motion puppetry to create an astonishing record of an extraordinary life

Union County review – an affecting Will Poulter lifts quiet addiction drama

The British actor gives a convincing performance as a man going through the drug court system in a grounded look at rehabilitation

‘For the authoritarian, culture is the enemy’: Salman Rushdie talks recovery and resilience at Sundance

A new documentary explores the author’s physical and spiritual healing from the 2022 knife attack that almost killed him

Imagine review – profound conversations meet trippy visuals in one-of-a-kind adventure

Taika Waititi, Yael Stone and Ian Thorpe are among the big names lending voices to this ‘chaotically strange’ animation drawing on Indigenous perspectives