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Glastonbury the Movie review – thirty years on, the sunset of a hippy dream in all its glory

Coinciding with a fallow year for the festival, these scenes filmed in 1993 record a youth culture innocent of camera phones and low on corporate hype

Enola Holmes 3 to Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Makers of mega-hit Adolescence Jack Thorne and Philip Barantini reunite for the next round of the sisterly Sherlock spin-off. Plus, Sarah Jessica Parker’s juicy look at the life of a legendary New York sex show host

Wanted: a new PM, a new James Bond, a new Doctor – and a UK that can agree on its leading characters

Britain has found itself looking for all three British protagonists at once, says Guardian arts and culture correspondent Nadia Khomami

Strung review – far-fetched thriller awkwardly mixes Blumhouse and Tyler Perry

There are flashes of low-rent fun to be had here but a busy script makes it feel like a limited series inelegantly cut down to movie length

A little bird told her: scientist wins $100,000 prize for decoding birdsong

Julie Elie worked out how zebra finches announce who they are, what they are doing and use individual signatures

The Mission review – a surgeon saves lives in war-torn Gaza in a visceral portrait of human endurance

Mohammad Tahir and his colleagues operate through bombing and blackouts in barely functional hospitals – but there are moments of relief amid the documentary’s tragedy and gore

Australians to pay at least 20% more for iPads and Macbooks after Apple hikes prices citing AI

Apple Macbook 13-inch prices jumps from $1,799 to $2,099 while the cost of iPads surges by 25%

California billionaire tax will appear on ballot after deadline for deal passes

Proposal to introduce one-time tax of 5% will go to voters in November after backers decline to withdraw measure

Apple raises iPad and MacBook prices, blaming cost of chips amid AI boom

Company says it cannot shield customers from memory and storage chip costs – and iPhone hikes could be next

Pride review – solidarity between gay activists and miners in a magnificent musical

The director and writer of the hit 2014 film deliver a stage celebration of togetherness in the face of adversity

Little Brother review – Netflix comedy is neither weird or funny enough for star Eric André

The surreal comedian struggles to sell a middling and mostly conventional film about an uptight realtor whose life is upturned by an unpredictable figure from his past

Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams sues Meta over attempts to ‘silence’ her

Former employee files complaint accusing company of ‘coercive surveillance’ and first amendment violation

You can still get an Apple Watch for its lowest price ever. Here’s which to buy

A guide to the steep Prime Day deals on Apple’s top-rated smartwatch and how to choose the right model for you

Can a $290m film studio on a former cow paddock lure Hollywood to Perth?

Australia is drawing record levels of international screen production – and Western Australia is betting millions that Perth Film Studios can bring some of it west

‘Our characters like to be naughty’: the makers of the Nirvanna mockumentary on illegal skydiving, taboo-breaking and time travel

Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol’s (non-Cobain affiliated) movie feels like Jackass via Back to the Future. They talk about how the supreme silliness was stressful to film, and how times have changed since their ‘tasteless’ 2007 web series

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  • Apple becomes second $5tn company as investors flee AI stocks
  • Director Mike Leigh likely to retire after his next film due to illness
  • South Korean stock market at three-month low as AI sell-off intensifies
  • Labour MP suing Elon Musk’s xAI says chatbot added own fake abusive content
  • The Killer: without John Woo’s gun fu classic, Hollywood action films would be far more dull
  • Spider-Man: Brand New Day review – Zendaya saves Tom Holland’s semi-Cronenberg-style superhero
  • Debate over AI’s future divides Silicon Valley as China gains ground
  • Who dares ridicule Gianni Infantino as the World Cup boss creates global peace? Not me: is it you?
  • Lesvia review – the rise and fall of an amazing lesbian community on Sappho’s actual island home
  • Spies in the sky: how worried should we be about the arrival of AI-enabled smart lamp-posts?
  • Why has Christopher Nolan got rid of all the sex in The Odyssey?
  • A self-emptying, frictionless marvel: Shark PowerDetect Speed Clean and Empty Pet Pro review
  • Just when you thought it was safe … the shark movie is back for more
  • Tinsman Road review – found footage haunted horror as a film-maker searches for his sister haunts
  • Wham! 10 Days in China review – pop meets politics in George and Andrew’s great leap east
  • ‘She wasn’t acting, she wanted to live it’: how a fake pregnancy resulted in the wildest true crime film of the year
  • It’s the vibe: Australian comedy classic The Castle set to become a stage play
  • Meta disregarded its own research on teen harm, Tennessee lawyers tell jury
  • New York school district halts plan to use humanoid robot amid backlash
  • David Jonsson: the London rising star handpicked to be the new Black Panther
  • Plas Johnson obituary
  • ‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster
  • ‘It reminded me of James Bond’: Guardian readers on The Odyssey
  • Boss of startup hacked by rogue OpenAI agent urges ‘radical transparency’ in investigation
  • Tom Holland says some of his films are ‘shit’ and people shouldn’t see them
  • Charli xcx portrait added to National Portrait Gallery collection
  • Alarm at NHS patient records being put under control of US private equity firm
  • The Phantom Pain of Rojava review – Kurdish veterans of the war against IS tell story of courage and survival
  • Joyce Carol Oates thinks the 90s TV adaptation of The Odyssey is the best. I beg to differ
  • ‘The greatest album never made’: the untold story of George Michael’s secret, star-packed duets project

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