The Brutalist to Highest 2 Lowest: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Adrien Brody mesmerises in the Oscar-winning epic, while Spike Lee indulges in a New York love-in with his new crime thriller starring Denzel Washington
‘Pink Floyd were my landscape. I was a hippy’: Pierce Brosnan revisits his old London haunts
The former 007 and current star of The Thursday Murder Club goes for a stroll in London’s Camden Town and Primrose Hill. Can he get past the security guard at the Roundhouse, where he once walked a tipsy Tennessee Williams to his car?
Jay Kelly review – even a George Clooney sizzle reel can’t save this dire Noah Baumbach effort
The affable star plays an affable star assessing his life and career at a Tuscan film festival in a wildly sentimental and self-indulgent piece of cine-narcissism
Government faces questions after review of 11 major UK data breaches
MP asks why all recommendations have not yet been implemented and why the review itself was kept secret for almost two years
ChatGPT offered bomb recipes and hacking tips during safety tests
OpenAI and Anthropic trials found chatbots willing to share instructions on explosives, bioweapons and cybercrime
Summer box office 2025: what were the big hits and misses?
The season saw Marvel and DC attempting a superhero comeback, a rush of millennial nostalgia plays and surprise theatrical hits from streamers
Bugonia review – Emma Stone might be an alien in Yorgos Lanthimos’s macabre conspiracy theory comedy
Jesse Plemons delivers an efficient punch as the fanatical Teddy who abducts Stone’s dead-eyed corporate ice queen in Lanthimos’s Korean remake
Emma Stone declares belief in aliens during Bugonia film promo
Actor says she agrees with astronomer Carl Sagan that it is narcissistic to think there is no other life in universe
Honor Magic V5 review: fantastic foldable phone that needs better Android software
Super-svelte body, fast chip, high capacity battery and big camera make it some of the best phone-tablet hardware
Orphan review – László Nemes’ fable of resentment and rage in post-uprising Hungary
This always interesting film-maker displays impressive technical control in this painful, sombre story about a boy who meets the father he never knew
Ghost Elephants review – Werner Herzog embarks on a mission to track down giant jumbos
In his inimitable fashion, Herzog follows a South African naturalist’s quest to discover a new species of elephant in Angola
How Elon Musk’s billionaire Doge lieutenant took over the US’s biggest MDMA company
Antonio Gracias is part of the growing movement among Silicon Valley’s right wing enamored with the therapeutic and commercial potential of drugs like MDMA
‘I turned down $20m to do Terminator 3. I can’t be bought, dude’: Ridley Scott on directing, Daleks and … cherry jam
The Blade Runner and Alien film-maker on his run-ins with critics, the space suits he keeps in his cellar in France – and his love of swearing
Taipei City council in the dog house over Chinese-made patrol robot
Opposition councillor in Taiwanese capital accuses authorities of sending ‘Trojan horse’ into citizens’ daily lives
Tesla sales in Europe slump 40% as BYD new car registrations more than triple
Electric car business run by Elon Musk continues to lose ground to Chinese rival despite recent revamp of Model Y