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‘I had to think about Andrew Tate. That was miserable’: 150 years of masculinity, all in one play

Revered for her work on Succession and Normal People, Alice Birch has now written an era-spanning play about men, novels and the manosphere. Give me a Brontë any day, she says

The Astronaut review – jump-scares and levitating eggs in a luxury location

In this slow-burn sci-fi, Kate Mara’s Nasa pilot crash lands back on Earth and is placed in a swanky safe house – but things soon start going bump in the night

Share your tributes and memories of Robert Redford

We would like to hear your tributes and memories of Hollywood star Robert Redford – whether you met him, or appreciated his work

Robert Redford: the incandescently handsome star who changed Hollywood forever

Robert Redford, who has died at the age of 89, began as a blond bombshell at a time when American cinema favoured grit, then turned into a supremely assured director and unlikely keeper of the indie flame

Robert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89

Redford achieved huge critical and commercial success in the 60s and 70s with a string of hits including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Way We Were and The Sting, before becoming an Oscar-winning director

Bad Man review – southern-fried script and idiosyncratic locals lift gun totin’ black comedy

Seann William Scott turns up to take over a small town murder, in this crime flick with a blokey, improv flavour

AI will make the rich unfathomably richer. Is this really what we want?

The ‘knowledge economy’ promised cultural and social growth. Instead, we got worsening inequality and division. Artificial intelligence will supercharge it

How I brew cafe-quality coffee anywhere, from campsite to carry-on

When you’re done settling for the sludge in the hotel lobby, this portable brewing setup will open the door to perfect coffee anywhere

Can I Get a Witness? review – Sandra Oh leads the line in dystopian future fable of planned death

There’s real chemistry between Oh and Keira Jang as a mother and daughter living in a society where pastoral scenes hide a more brutal reality

The truth about smartwatches? Life is better without a hectoring zealot on your wrist

According to a new survey, many people experience ‘tech regret’ – especially when it comes to surveillance devices they have bought, writes Zoe Williams

Wong says Netanyahu government ‘more isolated than ever’ – as it happened

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Diplo: The Mighty Dinosaur review – family dino animation goes meta as it rebels against ‘cute’

A strange, not entirely convincing attempt to add conceptual depth sees an animator forced to erase his own mildly annoying cartoon creations

Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK: what’s on the agenda?

Visit comes at sensitive time for UK government, which is laying on display of royal and military pageantry

Tape review – reverential Hong Kong remake of Richard Linklater drama of toxic masculinity

Linklater’s ahead-of-the-curve adaptation of a 1999 play about an alleged rape is reconfigured to try and reflect current concerns

To understand how AI will reconfigure humanity, try this German fairytale

Artificial intelligence will replace creativity with something closer to magical wishing. The challenge for future generations will be dealing with the feeling of emptiness that leaves us with

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  • David Walliams cameo cut from Australian film after sexual harassment allegations
  • The 37 best Christmas gifts in the UK for tweens – chosen by 10- to 12-year-olds
  • ITV to cut show budgets as UK TV and film production spend drops by more than £2bn
  • Tradwifery may be in retreat, but the damage these influences wrought is here to stay
  • Prima Facie review – Cynthia Erivo’s brilliant barrister blazes in sexual assault drama
  • AI datacentres plan on-site power stations on huge scale despite climate risks, research reveals
  • Nvidia hires leading US law firm to investigate Jensen Huang’s relationship
  • Give Me the Ball! review – tennis trailblazer Billie Jean King is ferocious force for equality
  • Farewell to Elon Musk’s Cybertruck. Has any car ever been more repellent?
  • Female Perversions review – Tilda Swinton searches for erotic adventures in rework of Madame Bovary
  • NAZA documentary on Gaza killings becomes one of year’s most watched
  • Germany reportedly bans Chinese drones at military bases over security concerns
  • 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
  • Even Martin Scorsese uses AI for storyboards. Can the art survive?
  • 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

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