Fjord review – Cristian Mungiu at sea with strange child abuse drama starring Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan
Cannes film festival: The Palme laureate here makes a misstep with an odd, disquieting film that leaves too many issues unresolved
How realistic is threat of Iran charging to use internet cables under strait of Hormuz?
Plan floated in Iranian media to extract revenues from US tech firms would rely on intimidation and is legally dubious
The Unknown review – Léa Seydoux gets invaded in uncanny and bizarre body-swap horror
Cannes film festival: A man is terrified to wake up in Seydoux’s body in this metempsychotic mystery film about gender identity
Melbourne psychiatrist refuses new patients who don’t consent to AI note-taking
Registration form informs patients that if they do not wish AI to be used, they will need their referring doctor to refer them to a different service provider
Australia’s social media ban preventing teenagers from accessing the news, research finds
Half of the teenagers who have been blocked say they are seeing less news than before – but they are not necessarily going back to traditional sources
Hope review – non-stop gonzo alien battling is top-quality entertainment
Cannes film festival: Na Hong-jin’s melee of running, chasing and shouting at the angry invaders is uproarious fun, mixing digital work with old-school spectacle
‘The film humanised Russians at a time when Rambo was killing them’: how we made Letter to Brezhnev
‘All of Kirkby turned out for the premiere – many of them had been extras. And 500 people crammed into my mum’s council house for a party. It’s still talked about’
Anthropic to share Mythos cyber flaw findings with global finance watchdog
Startup has declined to release Claude Mythos AI model publicly amid fears it could be used by hackers
‘Capitalism has to become more humane’: a Stanford economist on big tech, power hoarding and democracy
Mordecai Kurz argues tech oligarchs erode democracy through monopolies – and predicts how the trend may end
By offering all Emilys a free medium Coke per ticket, Showcase Cinemas prove their commitment to drama
Showcase Cinemas is offering a medium Coca-Cola to anyone called Emily who goes to see new romcom Finding Emily this weekend. But what if 35,000 thirsty Emilys turn up?
Let’s dress like a Mark Rothko! How gen Z fell for the king of colour field paintings
Why is the artist’s work racking up hundreds of thousands of views on social media? For a generation bombarbed with visual stimuli, it seems his canvases offer a meditative escape
Tribe review – compelling, unsettling search for a lost sect in the California mountains
Dan Asma’s impressive debut feature follows a retired professor, played by the director himself, whose research leads him to Lovecraftian terrors
The return of Westworld is perfect timing for the flattery-oriented age of AI
Now that real life has caught up with science fiction, the imminent danger isn’t malfunctioning cowboys, it’s the robots convincing us that we’re great and everything is totally fine
‘A lot of people don’t think I can act’: Wallace Shawn on Hollywood, therapy and speaking out on Palestine
At 82, the character actor is as frank and fired-up as ever with two hit stage shows and a summer blockbuster on the way. He’s embracing being odd, he says, even if everyone doesn’t quite get it
The French are hitting their protein goals – thanks to a cheese that looks like ectoplasm
La cancoillotte, a low-fat liquid cheese product, has somehow taken the country of haute cuisine by storm, writes Emma Beddington