Forget festive schmaltz, the best Christmas film this year is a gay biker dom-com

Die Hard isn’t a Christmas film, claims the British public. But Pillion reminds us that the finest festive films reflect the complexities of the season, says film critic Kitty Grady

From Eternity to Jamiroquai: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Elizabeth Olsen examines her life choices in metaphysical romcom and the elaborately titferred sometime Space Cowboy returns

Why is Timothée Chalamet suddenly everywhere? Seven things you need to know – from Oscars to puppies

The 29-year-old star is getting his best reviews ever for the upcoming film Marty Supreme – but he’s also making waves with his idiosyncratic approach to celebrity and maintaining his status as the internet’s boyfriend

Zootopia 2 bucks trend for Hollywood releases in China as it breaks records for foreign animation

Surprise success of film, known as Zootropolis in some countries, bucks trend for Chinese to spurn Hollywood in favour of domestic productions

Fackham Hall review – Downton Abbey spoof is fast, funny and throwaway

Period drama parody has some decent and often smart gags and benefits from a game cast including Damian Lewis and Thomasin McKenzie

‘This merger must be blocked’: Netflix-Warner Bros deal faces fierce backlash

US politicians and Hollywood guilds have voiced concerns against the proposed $83bn purchase of the studio

Cloudflare apologises after latest outage takes down LinkedIn and Zoom

Web infrastructure provider says problem lasted half an hour and was not an attack, weeks after larger outage

AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media

Hundreds of videos on TikTok and elsewhere impersonate experts to sell supplements with unproven effects

‘Urgent clarity’ sought over racial bias in UK police facial recognition technology

Testing showing racial bias against black and Asian people prompts watchdog to ask Home Office for explanation

Musicians must embrace ‘unstoppable force’ of AI, Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart urges

Producer says creatives need to own their intellectual property so they can license it to generative AI platforms

New York Times sues AI startup for ‘illegal’ copying of millions of articles

Perplexity AI also faces lawsuit from Murdoch-owned Dow Jones and New York Post for its use of copyrighted content

The Guardian view on reboots of A Christmas Carol and Paddington: refugee tales for today

Editorial: An Asian Scrooge, a break-dancing Bob Cratchit and a musical bear – new versions of classics keep stories alive

Scarlett Johansson joining the Batverse is good news for the franchise – but who will she play?

The actor who marries box office ratings with Wes Anderson cool should revive the Batman series, but trying to guess who she might play is a thankless task

The end of big-screen cinema? What Netflix hopes to achieve by buying Warner Bros

IP success stories such as Barbie and the DC Universe? That elusive best picture Oscar? Or perhaps the main goal is a good old-fashioned blockbuster

Trump administration moves to deny visas to factcheckers and content moderators

Action detailed in a state department memo directs officials to deny visas to any applicant engaging in ‘censorship’