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Sharon Stone says she’s not involved in Basic Instinct reboot: ‘I don’t know why you’d do it’

The original film’s 80-year-old writer Joe Eszterhas will take a $2m fee for a new script but Stone will play no role in the film

UK has backed down on demand to access US Apple user data, spy chief says

Tulsi Gabbbard says Home Office no longer demanding ‘backdoor’ to encrypted material

Mistress Dispeller review – goodness and vulnerability shine through in candid love triangle doc

Elizabeth Lo gets participants to be extraordinarily open about their messy affairs as she follows a woman who helps spouses remove lovers from their partners’ lives

The Home review – Pete Davidson gets spooky with retirement-facility horror

Davidson stars as a convict doing community service in a home for older people, in a film that falls short on internal logic and feels like a subpar Get Out

Grand Prix of Europe review – rodents hit the road in easy-going family animation

The story of mice with a need for speed, this gentle feature voiced by some champion acting talent steers a safe but satisfying course

‘He gave me a massage. I’ve never been in more pain in my life’: Terence Stamp remembered by Paul Andrew Williams

The writer and director of Song for Marion recalls moments of bravado, tenderness and alarming physical fitness with the late actor

Key stakeholders in Australia’s social media age assurance trial frozen out amid media leaks and resignations

Trial’s advisory board may not see the final report until communications minister releases it in the coming weeks

Quentin Tarantino weighs in on one of cinema’s big questions: what is the best Tarantino movie?

Director names his ‘masterpiece’ film, along with his favourite and the one he was ‘born to make’

Social media still pushing suicide-related content to teens despite new UK safety laws

Researchers who set up dummy accounts as 15-year-old girl were bombarded with self-harm and depression posts

Children’s exposure to porn higher than before 2023 Online Safety Act, poll finds

Children’s commissioner for England says findings show little had improved despite new law and tech firms’ promises

The Guardian view on Britain’s AI strategy: the risk is that it is dependency dressed up in digital hype

Editorial: The UK’s plans seem to outsource sovereignty for phantom efficiency. Public services provide the data and power while US tech giants reap the rewards

Here We Go Again: the enduring appeal of Mamma Mia!

The blockbuster show has returned to Broadway to further cement its place as the most popular jukebox musical of all time

‘You’re gonna need a bigger bank account’: how a Jaws child actor turned a fleeting appearance into a fortune

The cheques keep rolling in for Jeffrey Voorhees, who played short-lived shark victim Alex Kintner when he was 12 – and he’s not the only one

‘These are moist times we live in’: the strange, sticky world of Australian film-maker Philip Brophy

Brophy’s short films Salt, Saliva, Sperm & Sweat and No Dance have been restored for a whole new generation of twisted moviegoers

Does James Bond have to be played by a man? Helen Mirren seems to think so

The actor says she is ‘such a feminist’ but that it doesn’t work to have a woman as the next 007. She may find that Amazon, which has taken creative control of the franchise, agrees, writes Zoe Williams

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