The Secret Santa Project review – festive romcom tries for the Love Actually style multiple story strands

Set in a London council office, this clunky Christmas comedy interweaves a handful of storylines but musters only a brief flicker of cosy charm

‘She knew how to love and be loved’: Julia McKenzie and Jonathan Pryce pay tribute to Pauline Collins

Fellow actors of stage and screen share their memories of working with the much-loved Shirley Valentine star

‘I opened up like a giant elevator’: the seven sly, savage stages of a £100,000 romance scam

Last year, romance fraud rose 52% for over-55s in the UK. Victims often feel they’ve made a terrible mistake and are at fault – but really, they’ve been expertly groomed by criminals

‘Hermann Göring loved his kids. That’s what’s terrifying’: James Vanderbilt, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon on Nuremberg

Russell Crowe has a malevolent charm as the Nazi on trial in a compelling new film. His co-stars and director explain how they understood this monster – and the persistence of evil today

Oscar Isaac says he would only do Star Wars again if Disney doesn’t ‘succumb to fascism’

Star Wars actor said he was ‘not so open to working with Disney’ in interview two days after the company suspended Jimmy Kimmel

Datacenters meet resistance over environmental concerns as AI boom spreads in Latin America

An expert describes how communities in some of the world’s driest areas are demanding transparency as secretive governments court billions in foreign investment

What would Whitlam do? Fifty years on from the dismissal, his values could still guide Australian politics

Albanese would do well to look to Gough as he navigates one of the biggest technological challenges since the 1970s

Sydney Sweeney addresses US box office bomb for boxing movie: ‘We don’t always just make art for numbers’

Fact-based drama Christy suffers historically bad opening weekend in latest commercial disappointment for star

AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister

HMP Wandsworth gets ‘green light’ to use AI after team sent in to find ‘quick fixes’ after spate of mistakes

Can OpenAI keep pace with industry’s soaring costs?

As investor jitters grow, the loss-making ChatGPT firm’s vast spending commitments test the limits of Silicon Valley optimism

Can art enhance your life? Here’s what I learned from Ali Smith, Tracey Emin, Claudia Winkleman and more

In our always online, AI-imperilled lives, simply looking at a painting can improve wellbeing and offer creative guidance. For my new book, artists and writers shared their advice on how to live life artfully

Predator: Badlands – exiled hunters, rogue androids and unkillable monsters – discuss with spoilers

The latest instalment dismantles expectations surrounding predator and prey while tearing up the crossover cinema rulebook

Tech giants vow to defend users in US as spyware companies make inroads with Trump administration

Apple and WhatsApp say they will keep warning users if their phones are targeted by governments using hacking software against them

UK transport and cyber-security chiefs investigate Chinese-made buses

Move to assess potential risk of remote meddling by Beijing with Yutong buses follows investigations in Norway and Denmark

Slow Horses’ Jack Lowden: ‘I feel more at home on stage than I do in life’

Speaking at a screening of hit play The Fifth Step, the actor reveals he is ‘not comfortable at all on camera’