‘I am left grinning’: why The Dish is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers picking their most loved comfort films is a 2000 Australian gem featuring the late Sam Neill

Messy is chic again. But is the world ready for my kind of crumpled grubbiness?

All my clothes are stained and creased and my house is cluttered, so I should be thrilled by this moment. But it’s naive to think we are about to be tolerant of the real mess of life, writes Emma Beddington

Ancestral Visions of the Future review – visceral cine-memoir is a haunting return to Lesotho

Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese pairs his literary-grade voiceover with propulsive, prophetic images to interrogate his identity and that of his colonialism-carved homeland

Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’

Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

It’s not just the Odyssey effect: poetry is booming because it’s the only language for these times of violence and chaos

From Homer’s epic to conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, we can see how poetry fills the gap when ordinary ways of writing or speaking aren’t enough, says Guardian chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 review: your passport to a folding phone future

Novel squat Android opens to an iPad-like screen for video or multitasking, with plenty of power and battery life

Mermaid Beach review – Wales gets its mermaidcore moment in teen-empowerment tale

When discontented Lily becomes a fantastical sea creature her low-budget transformation is strikingly unconvincing, rather in tune with the whole film

UK manufacturers face rising hacking risk as survey shows 30% were hit last year

Big companies describe being under constant threat but only half have a plan in place to respond to an attack

Movie paradise? How Malta became a magnet for big film shoots

EU’s smallest country has played ancient Rome, the Land of Spells and Bay of Pentos and draws more than 30 productions annually

Zuckerberg faces questions over why superyacht reportedly declined to help stranded boat

Small cruise ship rescued skiff in south-east Alaska even though Meta billionaire’s $300m megayacht was closer

OnlyFans for Therapy review – a brave and unsettling emotional exposure

Veering from confident to crumbling, Verona Verbakel delivers a vivid show mixing humour with trauma

Inside a meme factory: meet one of thousands of Indonesians trading political outrage clicks for Facebook cash

Exclusive: Adira says she doesn’t know much about her target countries or even know who their leaders are. Instead she’s chasing money from Meta, which pays for engagement

I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming review – brilliant bulletin from Ukrainian frontline dives deep into culture war

A couple attempting to leave Ukraine when the war begins encounter gender identity issues in this bold and challenging film

Most X accounts posting about Belfast and Southampton unrest were based outside UK

Exclusive: Analysis shows 55% of accounts were overseas – and seven of 12 most-read posts came from US

‘I’ve definitely lost followers’: influencers face backlash over Meta ‘pervert glasses’ content

Using ‘spy glasses’ made by Facebook owner leads to floods of negative comments, say content creators