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How to Have Sex review – an education in consent for 24 hour party people

Tara and her friends decamp to a garish holiday resort on the lookout for her first sexual experience in Molly Manning Walker’s strong debut feature

WhatsApp now lets you hide your messages from prying eyes. But is Chat Lock a cheaters’ charter?

You can now hand your phone to your partner without any danger of them reading your chats. But what’s the big secret?

In the year since I quit social media, my screen time has fallen, my mood is up – even my resting heart rate is lower

A snap decision to step away has become a lifestyle shift for Philippa Moore. Though keeping up with friends can be tricky, she has no regrets

Passed Away: will Tom Hanks be making films long after he’s dead?

The actor is working on a movie that will utilise deepfake technology to de-age its stars – but that’s barely the beginning of his ambitions

‘I’d tell myself: you’re a loser, a failure, ugly …’ Matilda’s Mara Wilson on the price of fame

A star at nine, the actor was soon struggling with the death of her mother as well as nosy journalists and demanding fans. Angry, confused and thoroughly lost, how did she ever find her way back?

Chanel goes to Hollywood: hotpants and catsuits hit tinsel town

Show was more ditzy, tongue-in-cheek Hollywood of Clueless and Barbie than rarefied silver-screen world of Philadelphia Story

Huesera: The Bone Woman review – bone breaking Mexican horror of post-partum depression

The anticipation Valeria feels about the approaching birth of her first child slowly turns into a sense of real fear

Mark Zuckerberg joins Tom Hardy on list of famous Brazilian jiu-jitsu fighters

Tech billionaire has revealed his interest in the martial art, joining celebrities such as Russell Brand and Guy Ritchie

In Short, Europe: Explore review – a continental tasting menu for cinema

Slovenian girl power, Scottish body-positive burlesque, an animated Belgian throuple and a trans-curious Irish stablehand all feature in this collection of potent shorts

Being a teenage girl is only getting harder. Thank God they still have Judy Blume

Blume’s groundbreaking books shepherded me and millions of others through the trials of adolescence – and they’re still as relevant as ever, says writer Leila Latif

The Laureate review – writers throuple up in sinisterly erotic literary thriller

The scandalous love triangle between poet Robert Graves, his feminist wife and a charismatic American writer is the subject of this erotic and entertainingly silly film

Tell It Like a Woman review – Cara Delevingne powers all-female short film package

Delevingne is pretty good and Mipo O’s story of a single mother struggling to stay afloat has impact – but most are on a spectrum between insipid and awful

Feline fashion rules Met Gala 2023 as Doja Cat and Jared Leto honour Lagerfeld

Rapper’s prosthetic tribute to Choupette was outdone by Leto’s giant kitty

‘My father died in my arms at my wedding’

On his wedding day, Tim Sullivan’s much-loved dad suddenly collapsed and died on what should have been the happiest of days. But what he learned has shaped his life

You be the judge: should my phone-addicted friend go on a mobile detox?

Marley says she uses TikTok for work; her flatmate says 12 hours a day is too much. You decide if this social media habit is antisocial

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