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Diane Keaton remembered by her final director: ‘Cameramen dissolved into puddles at her feet’

In 2022, Diane Keaton shot her last film, the comedy Summer Camp. Its director remembers her energy, fearlessness and effortless authenticity on set

‘Shattered my whole world’: the wild story behind stranger-than-fiction drama Roofman

Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst lead the acclaimed new comedy drama about an escaped prisoner hiding in a toy store and deceiving a local woman

‘My eyes are stinging, but damn it, they’re open’: surviving a 12-hour Twilight marathon in the year 2025

Breaking both dawn and sanity, Twilight fan Jared Richards heads to the cinema to watch all five films for the 20th anniversary of Stephenie Meyer’s vampiric bestseller

Louder than Bombs: Joachim Trier’s thorniest film might be his best

The director of Sentimental Value and The Worst Person in the World made his English-language debut with this divisive family drama in 2015. It’s worth watching for Isabelle Huppert alone

The gospel according to Peter Thiel: why the tech svengali is obsessed with the antichrist

The influential billionaire investor has been giving secret lectures warning about Armageddon. Here’s why it matters

Instagram restricts what teenagers can see weeks before Australia’s under-16s social media ban begins

The restrictions come as many of the companies expected to be included in the ban announce changes or express opposition

The House at Hallow End review – home renovation horror finds emotional heft among the terror

Angela Gulner’s tragi-horror debut trades jump scares for depth, as a family home turns into a mirror of loss and madness

The Twits review – Americanised Roald Dahl is gruesome in all the wrong ways

Netflix’s animation mangles and sentimentalises Dahl’s black comedy about a gross and detestable married couple – relocating the action to Texas and introducing a plucky orphan heroine

Instagram to bring in version of PG-13 system to protect children, says Meta

Company says rules similar to US ‘parental guidance’ film rating will be applied to teenagers’ accounts

Keanu Reeves says Diane Keaton was ‘a generous artist and very special person’

Reeves has paid tribute to Keaton, his co-star in the 2003 romcom Something’s Gotta Give

Sunlight review – monkey-suited woman goes on road trip in Nina Conti’s super-quirky directing debut

There are plenty of laughs and a fair bit of trauma to process when a depressed man takes a monkey woman across country

The Secret of Me review – documentary tells tragic story of childhood intersex reassignment surgery

Grace Hughes-Hallett’s film focuses on the story of Jim Ambrose, who was raised female after he was born with atypical genitals

‘Risky is the best way to be’: Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom

From Rocky Horror to the Muppets, Curry’s extraordinary career made him world-famous. Then, a stroke left him paralysed. The actor talks about his cocaine years, his friendship with David Bowie – and the moment his mother came at him with a knife

Bose QuietComfort Ultra 2 review: the most comfortable noise cancelling headphones

Premium commuter cans upgraded with longer battery life, USB-C audio and improved sound, but still cost a lot

‘Your basis to live is checked at each and every step’: India’s ID system divides opinion

Keir Starmer is considering Aadhaar as model for UK, but detractors warn of ‘digital coercion’ and security breaches

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  • Nima Momeni sentenced to 16 years to life in murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee
  • US justice department sues Lyft over alleged refusal to serve passengers with disabilities
  • UK social media ban expansion for under-16s could cover YouTube Kids
  • Inquiry launched into UK budget bank tax leak; Wall Street hit by US inflation data – as it happened
  • Tinto Brass obituary
  • ‘Flying cars’ could launch in China next summer, maker of two-seat model says
  • Anthropic targets valuation of up to $1.4tn in stock market flotation
  • 13 Assassins: Takashi Miike’s viscerally violent remake is full-throttle samurai mayhem
  • Whispers in the Woods review – paddling in the moonlight in tender study of human-animal interaction
  • Meghan makes first public appearance since father’s arrest but pulls out of speech
  • Nvidia and Jensen Huang sued in US over affair with alleged Chinese spy
  • Traces of Justice review – ‘Chinese Sherlock Holmes’ at centre of arresting forensic cop thriller
  • ChatGPT’s Teen Mode could deprive teenagers of a fundamental need
  • ‘I’m looking for faces which surprise me’: how Richard Avedon photographed the soul of his subjects
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  • Soul Patrol review – heartstopping story of the US army’s first Black special ops team at work in Vietnam
  • Apple MacBook Pro review: lighter, thinner and a stunning OLED touchscreen
  • ‘We are human too’: the Roma film-makers striking back at stereotypes
  • Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial intelligence ‘going rogue’
  • One Nation dumps Victorian election candidate who praised Adolf Hitler as ‘GOAT’
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  • Jensen Huang’s image has been shattered. Could he be pushed out at Nvidia?
  • The AI poster boy, the ‘Chinese spy’ and Trump: how an affair may have harmed US security
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  • Nvidia’s board needs to do some succession planning – sharpish

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