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‘I’ve seen bedsheets with my face on them’: Thomas Brodie-Sangster on obsessive fans, Love Actually and the Sex Pistols

The actor became famous at 13 in Richard Curtis’s yuletide romance. Now 32, he talks about playing Malcolm McLaren, the success of The Queen’s Gambit and coming to terms with not playing Ron Weasley

Wagatha Christie, social media and the intricacies of libel

It was a very steep learning curve for the Instagram-shy judge, writes Eva Wiseman

A buzz about Top Gun: Maverick – Stephen Collins cartoon

Flying high …

My 13-year-old son is being exposed to porn – how can I protect him?

Not being pro- or anti-porn is the best stance to have for young people, so you don’t encourage them, nor shame them

Kate Moss testifies that Johnny Depp did not push her down stairs

Supermodel, 48, tells court in three-minute appearance that she and Depp had been in romantic relationship between 1994 and 1998

Tech neck: what are smartphones doing to our bodies?

Bending your head to use a phone stresses the spine, say chiropractors – and that’s not the only way the devices are injuring and changing us

‘Phones are like a scab we know we shouldn’t pick’: the truth about social media and anxiety

Although connecting with friends online has positive benefits for mental health, overdoing screen time can lead to a catastrophic emotional crash

‘The end of western civilisation’: Triangle of Sadness director explains modelling world satire

Ruben Östlund’s shipwreck comedy draws blood from a social scene strikingly similar to that at Cannes. ‘We urban Europeans are not a good audience,’ the director has told audiences at the film festival

#MeToo is over if we don’t listen to ‘imperfect victims’ like Amber Heard

When even young women join the actor’s male tormentors, ideas of justice soon begin to unravel

A question of style: will Top Gun’s apple-pie nostalgia work its magic in 2022?

The original film’s James Dean T-shirts and flying jackets harked back to a safer, more wholesome era. Three decades later, its sequel will try the same trick

Divas/Brotherhood review – powerful studies examine the challenges of growing up

Máté Körösi’s documentary about a trio of troubled young women in Budapest and Francesco Montagner’s film following three sons in a Bosnian shepherd family explore the path to adulthood

Blonde: will a shocking new film shatter the myth of Marilyn Monroe?

From Cannes to the Met Gala, the screen icon’s lucrative legacy lives on. But how will a new film affect the way the world sees her?

Taking his advice was like ‘chewing broken glass’: the short life of dating guru Kevin Samuels

The self-styled expert was quick to criticize Black women in the relationship sphere – and sympathy over his death was in short supply

Gay dating app Grindr to float in $2.1bn deal

Company, which has 10.8 million monthly active users, aims to hire LGBTQ+ chief executive

Making your bed is bad for you – just ask the experts on TikTok

A tidy duvet is heaven for dust mites and hell for asthma sufferers, claims a post that has been viewed more than 2.7m times

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