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Hampshire Tinder fraudster jailed after conning woman out of £150,000

Richard Dexter sentenced to four-and-a-half years for duping victim into sending payments after meeting via dating app

A Mouthful of Air review – postnatal depression drama is walking on eggshells

Amy Koppelman’s adaptation floats in a haze of ethereal lite-tragedy towards its end and lacks explicit storytelling passion

‘I cried for an hour!’: Arrested Development’s Will Arnett on divorce, fatherhood and friendship

After years of playing insecure braggarts, the actor is taking on a new challenge – as star of the improvised celebrity cop show Murderville. He talks about his ‘weird’ period, his split with Amy Poehler, and having a baby in his 50s

‘I’ve had letters from klansmen’: Jennifer Beals on Flashdance, The L Word and fighting to get diverse stories told

The actor, who broke through in 1983 playing a welder who dreamed of being a dancer, reflects on a life of activism, why gen Z give her hope and joining the Star Wars universe

Sunday with Sadie Frost: ‘Sensory satisfaction is all at this stage in life’

The director on yoga, films, football – and spending lazy Sundays with her grownup children

I slated my ex on social media. Why am I so full of hate?

Seek help from your GP and a therapist, says Philippa Perry. It is possible to change this pattern in relationships

Selfridges tempts shoppers with sex therapy and ‘psychedelic trips’

Unusual self-care offerings are part of retailer’s attempt to get customers back into habit of visiting stores

Are you short on personality? These email-writing apps can fix that

Are you struggling to hit the right notes over email and chat? Perhaps you need the ‘sarcasm converter’

Cinema hypnosis: is this the answer to noisy post-lockdown audiences?

A Swedish film festival is starting its screenings with a preliminary session from a hypnotist. Will it catch on?

Easy wins: hit refresh and archive your social media history

Rather not have all your pictures, posts and log-in details on the internet for eternity? It takes just a few minutes to download and delete

Music taste has become the latest weapon in our online dating war

Music is still synonymous with romance – just ask West Elm Caleb. But dating apps reduce it to data points, and a digital playlist is no match for the mixtapes of old

‘She immediately saw herself’: how Encanto strikes a major chord in a diverse world

The runaway success of the Colombia-set animation, with its infectious Lin-Manuel Miranda songs, is in no small part thanks to its Latinx characters, cast and key film-makers

Why do dating apps bring out the worst in men?

Apps like Tinder and Hinge give straight men unfettered access to women – and a new sense of boldness through a seemingly endless set of options

Easy wins: delete your social media apps and claw back precious days of your life

Phone notifications are, by design, hard to resist. Stopping them at the source is a better solution

Taming the Garden review – fascinating study of a billionaire’s destructive folly

Salomé Jashi’s film follows the journey of hundreds of mature trees as they are uprooted across Georgia to populate a rich man’s garden

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