‘It was the Nasa of puppetry’: how we made 1990 kids movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The performers and director of the original TMNT film describe how they battled hellish costumes and slippery sets to bring their tale of family bonding and kung fu to life

Bruce Willis’ dementia diagnosis: ‘language is going’, says actor’s wife

Emma Heming Willis recalls the actor’s ‘alarming and scary’ early symptoms and says his family has ‘learned to adapt’ as his brain ‘is failing’ amid ‘really great health overall’

Starships are meant to fly: SpaceX’s rocket finally launches after setbacks

Test flight comes after explosive failures raised doubts over founder Elon Musk’s goals to reach Mars and moon

Five current and ex-Microsoft workers arrested at sit-in over Israeli military ties

Police placed protesters in harnesses and took them in after sit-in urging tech giant to cut ties with Israeli government

KPop Demon Hunters becomes Netflix’s most-watched film with 236m views

Animated hit breaks record held by 2021 action movie Red Notice and has also had box-office and music chart success

The death of the review? Cultural criticism is at risk of erasure

Recent announcements at major publications have seen critics losing their positions, an ongoing shift that we should all be alarmed by

Elon Musk’s Doge put sensitive social security data at risk, whistleblower says

SSA official alleges that Doge staff uploaded personal data of hundreds of millions of Americans to vulnerable cloud server

Bob Owston obituary

Other lives: Structural engineer and architect responsible for original and practical buildings

‘A movie star turn of the highest calibre’: we were wrong about Mother! – and Jennifer Lawrence

By the end of the 2010s, the internet had soured on the actor as quickly as it had fallen in love with her. But her performance in this much-maligned film is utterly fearless

What the Democrats can learn from Gavin Newsom’s Trump mockery

The California governor is imitating Trump’s attention-grabbing style. It’s time for the party to embrace an all-out digital brawl

France to sue Kick for alleged negligence over livestream death

Minister says Australian platform ‘did not do everything possible to stop the broadcast of dangerous content’

Is the AI boom finally starting to slow down?

Stocks of firms with big AI pushes tumbled this week, Meta announced an AI hiring freeze, and the first big test of an AI reality check looms

The French film star, the fake Irish aristocrat and the missing €7m

Trial to open in Nice of Thierry Fialek-Birles, accused of an ‘elaborate fraud’ against the actor and director Dany Boon

Derelict review – great performances turn low-budget crime drama into diamond in the rough

Despite threadbare resources, actors Suzanne Fulton and Michael Coombes elevate this film about a woman hoping to avenge her father’s violent death

Will Smith review – post-slap tour has shoutalongs, self-help sermons and a touch of David Brent

His most recent album may have tanked but it works better played live, and Smith is endearing as he continues to get jiggy with it