Wolf Children review – Mamoru Hosoda’s tender werewolf fable is a minor masterpiece

Childhood, single motherhood and the call of the wild converge in Hosoda’s most emotionally resonant film – a beautifully drawn tale of love, loss and letting go

I want my faulty earbud fixed. Should it cost less than replacing the pair?

With a growing e-waste problem, you’re right to pursue a repair, writes policy professional Kat George. Your consumer rights extend beyond a product’s warranty too

Dawn Dusk review – handbag designer deals with grief over murdered sister and dead friend

Not long out of high school, Chelli is finding her way through awful grief for her best friend, and for her sister, but this documentary loses sight of its subject

‘I was too good’: Sharon Stone on stardom, family secrets, sexual abuse – and her comeback after a stroke

She became world famous with Basic Instinct and Casino. Then she had a near fatal brain bleed. The actor and artist discusses strength, survival, being upskirted on set, her violent run-ins with Harvey Weinstein and the performances she’s most proud of

You can mute – but you can never leave. Why have WhatsApp groups become so stressful?

There is the initial group. Then the side group. Then another splinter group. Suddenly, in your bones, you know the wrong message is going to end up with the wrong person, writes Polly Hudson

‘Commodifying themselves’: the ordinary people posting Instagram sponcon to profit off friends

Users can make thousands a year by sharing links to their favorite items online – and they only need about 1,000 followers to qualify

Jeans, controversy, used bathwater: Sydney Sweeney’s selling it all. A showbiz masterclass, if you ask me

Five years ago, she’d have been doing feminist stunts – but times change and Sydney has captured the zeitgeist. She might flog that to you too, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Are heterosexuals OK?

It is the question du jour – and a lot of people are teasingly interrogating it, writes Emma Beddington

The Mountains review – a beautiful portrait of a family’s attempt to process a tragedy

Christian Einshøj’s debut feature unearths home video footage taken by his father, as he and his siblings explore their long-buried feelings about their brother’s death

Knife throwing and cheeseburger spinning: the agony and ecstasy of being a viral trickshot video star

Think you could throw a basketball off a 540ft dam, into a hoop – while blindfolded? Meet the talented and ludicrously patient people putting hours into the internet’s most joyful (and pointless) clips

He worked with artificial limbs for decades. Then a lorry ripped off his right arm. What happened when the expert became the patient?

An experienced clinician in prosthetics, Jim Ashworth-Beaumont found himself the perfect guinea pig for a radical new option for amputees

The best rice cookers in the UK for gloriously fluffy grains at home: nine tried and tested favourites

Serve up perfect rice every time with our expert-tested rice cookers, from space-saving mini appliances to microwave steaming bowls

There are no secrets on the internet. Just ask the women who entrusted their data to Tea

An app designed to protect its users from dodgy men has been hacked by dodgy men. I wish I could say I’m surprised, writes Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi

CatVideoFest: how clips of cute kitties spawned a million-dollar movie franchise

Every year since 2016, Will Braden has devoted himself to assembling a feature-length film from snippets of moggies doing the darndest things – and it has started to bring in serious money

Dogspiracy review – sincerity of activists is palpable in film that takes aim at puppy farming

TV vet and animal welfare campaigner Marc Abraham travels to the US to take on Big Pet Store’s conspiracy to maintain a cruel status quo