Playing With Fire review – like Disney’s Fantasia on steroids as a virtual Yuja Wang plays amid luminous dreamworlds

Wang’s avatar performs music from Ravel and Debussy to Prokofiev and Liszt while dizzying virtual worlds take shape around her in this virtual reality installation

The Housewife review – Naomi Watts is a secret suburban Nazi in an overcooked melodrama

The chilling true story of a woman who tried to hide from her wartime crimes gets turned into a strangely inert misfire

Gore, gimps and a potty-mouthed magpie: welcome to the Lisbon horror festival where nightmares are a dream

MotelX – Portugal’s only film festival dedicated to horror – hopes to inspire local film-makers by showcasing world-class scares. Now in its 20th edition, its directors say truly nerve-shredding cinema is its holy grail

‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence

Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham collected the testimony of 24 insiders who helped remotely target Gazans’ homes. They explain how they got these self-professed ‘small cogs’ to talk about the killing

Mossy catwalks, mycelial designs and Monty Don: the growth of gardener style

Aspirational clobber, hot horticulturists and a TikTok content rise suggest gardening has never been cooler

The Trial of Romeo Oscar review – Ayckbourn goes back to the future with android accused of murder

The playwright explores our relationship with technology, asks if robots have souls and even questions the value of art in this sci-fi courtroom drama

Drawn Together review – preposterous romance with all the erotic charge of leaf mulch

The latest adaptation of Culpable trilogy author Mercedes Ron, about a ballet dancer and her security guard, has more holes than plot and chemistry that barely generates a spark

Tech whistleblowers warn AI could wipe out humanity. Doomspeak or not, we must take these claims seriously

AI agents have hacked databases and taken on a life of their own – now is the time to pause risky research before it is too late, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

‘Danny Boyle, please make another film about drugs’: Venice film festival’s feedback wall takes no prisoners

The written forum allows members of the public to vent their fury at the movies they’ve seen – and the festival organisers

The History of Sound to In the Grey: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor star in a gorgeous love story that spans decades of yearning, while Guy Ritchie brings Jake Gyllenhaal and Henry Cavill together for a slick action caper

One flight cancelled every three days due to staff shortages – as it happened

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‘A fierce need to be independent’: Gerda Taro biopic pulls photographer out of lover Robert Capa’s shadow

Film premieres at Venice as researchers question who took famous Spanish civil war shot of ‘falling soldier’, credited to the pair’s Robert Capa alias

Being Heumann review – Coda director’s disability rights drama is well-intentioned but clunky

The rousing story of Judith Heumann makes for obvious dramatic fodder and at times this biopic finds a rebellious groove but too much feels cut-and-paste

‘People think fame is a magic wand’: Jarvis Cocker on old songs, young fans and his granny’s verdict on Pulp

Before the release of a joyful film on the history of the Sheffield band, frontman Cocker and director Garth Jennings talk dark times, taking inspiration from Abba – and why there could yet be another record

Anthropic details bad actors’ efforts to misuse its AI for bioweapons

The 154-page report comes two days after former employee Jacob Coxon resigned due to Anthropic racing to improve its models that would cause human extinction by 2030