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Wuthering Heights set to ravish Valentine’s weekend box office

Early projections suggest Emerald Fennell’s adaptation could recoup its $80m production budget in its opening three days – with strong US and overseas takings expected

Fundraiser for James Van Der Beek’s family surpasses $1m in under 24 hours

Dawson’s Creek star, who died on Tuesday, had been open about struggling to meet high expenses of cancer treatment

‘People ought to know’: Blue Boy Trial brings Japan’s trans history up to date

Kasho Iizuka’s feature casts trans actors to revisit a notorious 1965 trial that made gender reassignment illegal for more than 30 years. He explains why the history remains unfinished

‘I wasn’t acting: that was me’: how non-actors took over Oscar season

From One Battle to Another to Marty Supreme, supermarket magnates, professors and special agents have been stealing scenes on screen

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley review – a sympathetic, urgent look at a life cut tragically short

Amy Berg’s arresting documentary delves into the early life and untimely death of the 90s singer-songwriter, with extensive contributions from his mother and girlfriends

Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up review – still capers after all these years

The trusty cartoon franchise brings Daffy Duck and Porky Pig back for fresh antics, updated pretty neatly for our times

‘A love letter to all the good men I know’: Shahrbanoo Sadat on making Afghanistan’s first romcom

Opening the Berlin film festival, No Good Men blends romance and rebellion, capturing love, humour and female agency in Kabul on the eve of the Taliban’s return

James Van Der Beek was so much more than just Dawson

The late actor became known for his role in Kevin Williamson’s era-defining teen show but in the years after he worked hard to subvert his persona

Bud Cort, star of Harold and Maude, dies aged 77

Actor best-known for role in Hal Ashby’s black comedy also appeared in films by Robert Altman and Wes Anderson

Crime 101 review – bracing tale of master thief lifts a trick or two from Michael Mann

The pedal is pressed hard to the metal for this very stylish high-stakes armed robbery thriller starring Chris Hemsworth

Is Jacob Elordi really the hottest man on the planet? Six things you need to know

Gen Z fell in love with him on the small screen, but with the release of Emerald Fennell’s steamy new adaptation of Wuthering Heights, the Aussie actor’s star is set to shine even brighter

Oscars 2026 class photo: can you spot the tallest nominee – and a camouflaged Diane Warren?

The annual Academy Award nominees luncheon is my favourite part of an otherwise excruciatingly dull affair – and the group picture reveals more than any winners list could

Is surprise box-office hit Iron Lung the future of ‘video game films’?

The YouTube gaming star’s weird and divisive adaptation of his obscure horror film is a game within a film about a game – and hints at new directions for storytelling

Beyond Trainspotting: The World of Irvine Welsh review – uniquely funny writer holds court

The author discusses his writing, the movies it created and his own youth, but not all the interviewees in this documentary are quite so gripping

Little Amélie review – tender and poignant study of the fragility of early childhood

Based on a 2000 novella, this sweet animation follows a young girl who wakes from a vegetative state on the verge of feral, but begins to bond with others after an intervention by her grandmother

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  • Stand by Me review – Rob Reiner’s nostalgic look at friendship and the loss of innocence still grips tight
  • The Cure review – eat-the-rich horror fable with a sinister life-extension twist
  • Anna Wintour shares Vogue cover with Hollywood doppelganger Meryl Streep
  • Tell us: do you use AI chatbots to make decisions for you?
  • Paul Seed obituary
  • Oh what a circus! The Greatest Showman hits the stage as a high-flying, hammer-juggling, banger-filled spectacular
  • Legendary Disney composer Alan Menken on winning Oscars, Razzies and his ‘filthy’ rock musical
  • An AI company with an arsenal of spacecraft: what exactly is SpaceX?
  • Row over ‘virtual gated community’ AI surveillance plan in Toronto neighbourhood
  • Musk’s SpaceX courts retail investors as it aims for record-breaking stock market flotation
  • Porn, dog poo and social media snaps: the ‘taskers’ scraping the internet for Meta-owned AI firm
  • ‘There’s a lot of desperation’: skilled older workers turn to AI training to stay afloat
  • The Stranger review – lustrously beautiful and superbly realised modern take on the Camus classic
  • Sluts, simps and body shaming: the rise of Africa’s manosphere
  • Slither review – James Gunn’s Troma-style comedy horror debut gets a reboot in reputational glow-up
  • Children in UK report online sextortion attempts in record numbers
  • ‘I felt ashamed and scared’: how an online friendship became a sextortion nightmare
  • ‘Coke and booze didn’t help my creativity’: Joe Eszterhas on his wild times – and his supernatural, anti-woke Basic Instinct reboot
  • Tech companies are cutting jobs and betting on AI. The payoff is far from guaranteed
  • The Drama: sex, secrets and that gobsmacking twist – discuss with spoilers
  • Iran’s internet blackout is longest national shutdown since Arab spring
  • Noel Chanan obituary
  • Using AI to speed up Australia’s environmental approvals risks ‘robodebt-style’ failures, scientists say
  • Private jets, deserted shores and an unbuilt resort: alleged links to sanctioned ‘scam’ empire revealed in Timor-Leste
  • ‘Traceability is vital’: labs test thousands of unregulated substances amid peptide craze
  • Do we really need truncheons and pepper spray to fight off London’s ‘feral’ teenage shoplifters?
  • ‘The original triple threat’: two exhibitions celebrate Marilyn Monroe as creative pioneer
  • Dracula review – Romania’s most reliable export is focus of knockabout cut-up satire
  • ‘It started with a tipoff’: how a Guardian investigation exposed child sex trafficking on Facebook and Instagram
  • House of Gloss review – tender portrait of a young trans couple finding refuge in new kind of family

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