Sunset Boulevard review – Hollywood never looked more glorious or more tragic

Gloria Swanson is extraordinary as faded film-star Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder’s cameo-packed self-referential masterpiece about tinseltown ghosts and delusions

Quentin Tarantino has strong opinions about Paul Dano and none of them are right

Tarantino has called Dano a ‘weak, weak uninteresting guy’, ‘the giant flaw’ in There Will Be Blood – and the main reason it is not his favourite film of the 21st century

Cover-Up review – atrocity exposer Seymour Hersh, journalist legend, gets a moment in the spotlight

Hersh’s record on uncovering the big stories, from My Lai to Abu Ghraib, speaks for itself. This documentary watches him at work: dogged, nonconformist and combative

‘BDSM on screen used to just mean a gimp in the basement’: the kink community’s verdict on Pillion

Pillion, which explores a relationship between dom Ray (Alexander Skarsgård) and submissive Colin (Harry Melling), has just opened in UK cinemas. But how realistic is its portrayal of a group little seen in mainstream cinema?

Anti-immigrant material among AI-generated content getting billions of views on TikTok

Researchers uncovered 354 AI-focused accounts that had accumulated 4.5bn views in a month

Tesla privately warned UK that weakening EV rules would hit sales

Elon Musk-owned electric carmaker also called for support for the secondhand market, documents reveal

Australia’s eSafety commissioner rejects US Republican’s assertion she is a ‘zealot for global takedowns’

Julie Inman Grant says Australia’s Online Safety Act ‘does not impinge upon Americans’ freedom of speech’

Eric Trump’s cryptocurrency firm tumbles nearly 40% amid ‘crypto winter’

American Bitcoin Corp’s shares fell from $2.39 to $1.90 after closing in what some are calling ‘crypto winter’

One Battle After Another gains Oscars traction after early awards season wins

Paul Thomas Anderson’s comedy thriller named best film by Gotham awards and New York Film Critics Circle

Production of French-German fighter jet threatened by rivalries, chief executive says

Relations between French company Dassault and the German unit of Airbus are reportedly ‘very strained’

Jodie Foster, who began her career aged three, calls acting ‘a cruel job’ she never would have chosen

Actor, who started working in commercials before making her first film at six, calls acting a job that was ‘chosen’ for her

Sam Altman issues ‘code red’ at OpenAI as ChatGPT contends with rivals

Chief executive tells staff it is ‘critical time’ for chatbot as it faces intense competition from Google’s new Gemini 3

The 15 best tech gifts in the US for moms, as requested by moms

From TheraGuns to koala breathing lights, here are good gizmos for mom, whether your budget is $20 or $220

Indian order to preload state-owned app on smartphones sparks political outcry

Apple among big tech companies reportedly refusing to install Sanchar Saathi cybersecurity app on their devices

‘He asked me what I’d done sexually with a woman’: how Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor turned her asylum grilling into a film

The rising star has made her debut film, Dreamers, a semi-autobiographical love story set in an immigration detention centre. She talks about fleeing persecution in Nigeria – and what she learned from French new wave