Why stop at Wuthering Heights: House of the Damned? Bring on Mrs Dalloway’s Rampage!
It isn’t just Winnie the Pooh – now the star of Blood & Honey II. Budget shockers are treating any story with expired copyright as ripe for murderous exploitation
Feeling overwhelmed by the AI doom loop? Here’s the essential reading list to make sense of it all
It’s a chaotic time in an industry that’s reshaping our lives – Guardian reporters and experts recommend the books that help explain how we got here, and where we’re headed
De Gaulle: Liberté review – biopic of conquering French war hero reaches his imperial era
A shrewd performance by Simon Abkarian leads this blockbuster account of the wartime leader’s career as he ascends to political dominance
Jonathan Majors’s anti-Islam action thriller is laughably terrible far-right propaganda
The disgraced former Marvel villain has found work with Ben Shapiro for hateful campus-set thriller Run Hide Fight: Infidels, which makes its politics clear from the outset
Big AI is trying to own the pathway to work. Universities shouldn’t play along
Universities need to protect their position in education so that students have an independent pathway to employment
Bad Apples review – Saoirse Ronan’s suffering teacher best thing about school horror-satire
Ronan plays a teacher who finds a way to deal with a disruptive pupil in Jonatan Etzler’s implausible satire, but it’s not shocking or funny enough
‘When you tell people the story, it’s almost too good to be true’: the incredible journey behind The Cycle of Love
Documentary director Orlando von Einsiedel on how the real life tale of a man who cycles 6,000 miles from India to Sweden to find his true love will warm your heart
The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream review – political scandal, 70s style
Shane O’Sullivan’s documentary weaves archive clips and snippets from films old and new to draw out the highlights of the crisis that rocked the US
‘I thank God for killing me and bringing me back’: Nicolas Winding Refn on the heart surgery that inspired his new sci-fi horror
Notorious for ultra-violent movies like Drive and The Neon Demon, the Dane had lost the will to direct until ‘the Tom Cruise of surgeons’ saved his life – and triggered an astonishing creative rebirth
Netanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensify
Israeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists
English far-right extremist who discussed killing Jews, Muslims and migrants is jailed
Ivan Jennings, 46, sentenced to five years after pleading guilty to encouraging terrorism on social media
Planning permission for new Scottish AI datacentres suspended for up to a year
Scottish parliament brings in strict environmental impact assessments and will delay decisions until national strategy is developed
The Liberation review – Carrie Coon joins all-female cult in unsettling drama
Director Guy Nattiv draws on personal experience for an 80s-set tale of a woman abandoning her family for a creepy commune
Amazon raises starting pay to $20 an hour and adds Whole Foods discount
Wage increase brings Amazon’s US minimum pay in line with Costco and includes new grocery discount benefit
UK politics: Burnham says budget will be ‘challenging’ and denies he is just ‘tax and spend socialist’ – as it happened
PM responds to criticism from former Bank of England chief economist