Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy review – life gets gamified in one-note Korean sci-fi
Big K-pop stars and a teen-skewed subtext aims this squarely at a particular audience but this fantasy never really levels up
Pregnant at 61 or a mother aged three: why do movies love age-blind casting?
In Kate Winslet’s Goodbye June, Timothy Spall, 68, plays the father of Toni Collette, who is 53 – and pregnant. But those liberties are nothing compared with North by Northwest, The Manchurian Candidate or Thanksgiving
Rob Reiner’s friends Billy Crystal and Larry David remember director together: ‘He was always at the top of his game’
In a joint statement with other close friends, including Albert Brooks and Martin Short, the comedians pay tribute to the Reiners after their deaths
Elon Musk’s X wins appeal to lift block on Australians seeing Charlie Kirk shooting footage
In successful challenge, X argued the video wasn’t excessively offensive and was an objective record of a ‘public event of historical and political significance’
Rob Reiner’s son Nick charged with murder of parents
Nick Reiner, 32, charged after Rob Reiner and wife Michele Singer Reiner found dead at Los Angeles home on Sunday
Marshall Islands launches world’s first universal basic income scheme offering cryptocurrency
Quarterly payments of $200 to be offered via stablecoin or traditional currency in a scheme designed to ease cost of living pressures in the Pacific nation
UK insists US tech deal not dead as Trump threatens penalties against European firms
Keir Starmer’s office claims UK still in ‘active conversations’ about deal for tech industries in both countries to cooperate
Jared Kushner’s firm exits takeover battle for Warner Bros Discovery
Affinity Partners, key backer of hostile bid by Paramount, reportedly steps back following scrutiny of Kushner’s role
Nick Reiner: what do we know about Rob Reiner’s son who was arrested?
The 32-year-old screenwriter, who has dealt with addiction and homelessness, has been arrested after the deaths of of his parents
Nick Reiner to be charged with first-degree murder of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner
LA district attorney says charges could carry the death penalty, after Nick Reiner arrested in murder of his parents
Democratic senators investigate data centers’ effects on electricity prices
Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal and Chris Van Hollen demand answers from tech firms including Google and Amazon
George Osborne joins OpenAI: ex-chancellor adds tech post to his CV
Former Tory chancellor tasked with helping ChatGPT owner develop ties with governments
US date rape survivors file lawsuit accusing Hinge and Tinder of ‘accommodating rapists’
Civil suit, citing the Dating App Reporting Project, argues that dating apps could kick off serial rapists but don’t
From Harry Potter to The Crying Game, Susie Figgis’s explosive enthusiasm made her an irreplaceable casting director
Producer Stephen Woolley pays tribute to Figgis, who has died aged 77, a brilliant professional whose ‘molotov cocktail personality’ enabled her work in British and Hollywood cinema
Disclosure Day: first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s star-studded UFO movie
Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo and Eve Hewson head up the director’s latest effort