Valley of the Shadow of Death review – priest’s faith is pushed to limit in self-flagellating Hong Kong fable
A homeless youth seeking forgiveness sets up an impossible moral quandary in a debut feature from Sen Lam and Antonio Tam
‘Mommy’s got her phone’: A House of Dynamite is good on nuclear threat – and great on smartphone reliance
The Netflix film graphically highlights the importance phones bring to both work and home life, as well as their potential to wreak havoc on a global scale
‘It shows such a laziness’: why I refuse to date someone who uses ChatGPT
It’s the ultimate ick: trying to form a deep, lasting connection with a person who outsources original thought
Tony Foster: Painting at the Edge review – going deep in the quest for extreme landscape painting
At 79, the British artist is still skirting real peril, questing across the planet to depict the unspoiled vastnesses shown to grand effect here
‘Such a tonic’: why Burn After Reading is my feelgood movie
The latest in our series of writers remembering their most rewatched comfort film is a tribute to the Coens’ playful star-packed comedy
100 Meters review – mesmerising anime of young athletes in search of physical and spiritual high
Dazzling rotoscoped running sequences make up for a lack of narrative subtlety in Kenji Iwaisawa’s film
Girl, 17, joins lawsuit against UK government after seeing horrific phone videos at school
Flossie McShea from Devon says she saw a shooting, a beheading and porn and that other students ‘show you their screen without invitation’
Brunaupark review – housing estate dwellers vs property developers in rousing but unequal battle
This heartfelt film bears witness to a defiant community, forms a vital piece of oral history and shows the resilience of those determined to stay on
‘I can’t control how others perceive me’: Sydney Sweeney on boxing, weight gain and her flair for controversy
She ignited a culture war with a jeans advert. Now she has delivered a knockout performance as boxer Christy Martin. Sweeney talks about taking punches in the ring – and in the media
Jay Weatherill named next high commissioner to UK – as it happened
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Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts
Fascination of investors such as Elon Musk with uploading their brains to computers is hindering progress in curing disease, say scientists
‘I enter a room and people say: “God just walked in”’: Morgan Freeman on voicing the divine, meeting Mandela – and his six decades on screen
From his humble upbringing in Mississippi to the unmistakeable timbre of his voiceover, the actor reveals why he’s not even considering retirement
Bad Bridgets podcast about crime among Irish women in US inspires film
Margot Robbie’s company to make movie based on Northern Ireland academics’ stories of poverty and prison
I’m a committed introvert – but no AI will take away the joy I get from other people
While it might be soothing to think you could replace social interactions like book clubs with ChatGPT, subcontracting human thought out to a bot will never bring happiness, writes Emma Beddington
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