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She Said review – breaking the male silence around Harvey Weinstein

Admirably straightforward drama follows two of the reporters who cut through the defences around the apparently invulnerable producer

Rolling back the years: can Hollywood make Harrison Ford look 40 years younger?

Technology to de-age actors on screen has been in use for years – with varied success. But producers of the new Indiana Jones film are promising a breakthrough

‘My friends call me the BlackBerry queen!’ Meet the people clinging on to old tech – from faxes to VCRs

You can keep your iPhones, emails and streaming videos. Aren from London, Lisa from St Louis and Billy from Wigan are quite happy with old-fashioned alternatives. And there are plenty more where they came from

Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan on She Said: ‘We wanted to honour the bravery of #MeToo survivors’

A new film dramatises the New York Times investigation that brought down Harvey Weinstein. Its stars discuss how the industry is changing

Fathers and daughters: what’s the truth behind this unexplored family bond?

Research suggests fathers of girls have more empathy for women. But as King Lear and new movie Aftersun show, there are plenty of challenges along the way

Tom Felton looks back: ‘I had a nice car, a house in LA. You’re told they make you happy – they don’t’

The Harry Potter star recreates an old photo and recalls the ‘cocky’ audition that changed his life

‘I lie in the bath, imagining that I am wandering the Rialto in Venice’: my obsession with Duolingo

First it was Italian, then I added French, Portuguese and even Latin. But does the language learning app, which has almost 15 million people using it, really work?

A new start after 60: I became an actor – and I’ve never made so much money

Anabel Graetz has always known she had an interesting and unusual face. At the age of 80, it’s now paying the bills

What does a £100,000 ‘invisibility cloak’ look like? Funny you should ask …

Three years’ research and a lot of very expensive materials have gone into Steve and Nick Tidball’s thermal camouflage jacket. Can its wearer really blend into the background?

Stop swiping, start talking: the rise and rise of the blind dating app

Call them crazy, but more and more online daters are choosing to start conversations without vetting each other’s profile pictures. It’s almost as if looks aren’t the only thing that matters!

Unfollow? Block? And who gets custody of the WhatsApp groups? How to break up in the digital age

Social media has made finding love easier, but ending relationships even messier. Here’s how to finish things online without losing your mind

Experience: I make prosthetic arms with Lego

I tested one by hitting it against a wall – the wall took the damage

Watching from the cot: are smart toys and baby products worth it for parents?

More and more smart baby monitors and AI-powered toys are entering the Australian market, but these expensive products can have a significant privacy cost

Halloween is bad enough, so why torture ourselves with scary films?

The best horror movies thrill us with fear and pity – just the catharsis Aristotle looked for in tragedy

Friends are good for us … so why do many men have none at all?

Best pals in 1920s rural Ireland fall out spectacularly in the acclaimed film The Banshees of Inisherin. A century on, surely the attitudes of the modern male have moved on?

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  • Landship review – soldiers yearn for tinned pies in muddy first world war drama that stays inside the tank
  • Self-doubt, burnout … and Taylor Swift: why Toy Story 5 is the ultimate millennial girl movie
  • Lost memoir of Hiroshima survivor found after decades in US archive
  • Met to expand use of live facial recognition into central London by Christmas
  • UK plans to give established media more visibility on YouTube and TikTok
  • HR consultant wins English court case using AI lawyer in apparent legal first
  • Two Britons plead guilty to £39m 2024 cyber-attack on Transport for London
  • The best LED face masks in the UK, tested: 11 light therapy devices that are worth the hype
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  • Tesla drivers crash into swimming pool and home in separate US incidents
  • Once Upon a Time in Holyhead: Quentin Tarantino and Kylie Minogue shooting film in Porthcawl
  • AI models capable of devastating attacks on governments and business months away, rare Five Eyes statement warns
  • Pitfall review – big-hole survival horror is as if cast of Friends strayed into Deliverance
  • Jabs, human ash and a tapeworm: behind the appetite for a new kind of disordered eating movie
  • Benita review – Alan Berliner puts new spin on late film-maker’s work in entrancing tribute
  • ‘Sheer outrageousness’: writers on their favourite LGBTQ+ movie characters
  • Shadows of Willow Cabin review – secrets fester beneath horny hookup in low budget horror
  • The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine review – scavenger’s story reveals a rich seam to mine
  • The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence
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  • Condemned to plutocracy? The relentless rise of US inequality
  • Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media
  • Suppliers unable to chase fees after film producer’s 50 companies are struck off
  • To the tablet and beyond: does Toy Story 5 go hard enough on technology?
  • Texas environmentalists lose bid to block Musk’s SpaceX from closing beach
  • ‘Once my tummy stopped shaking, I was absorbed by the scale, spectacle and wonder’: your Steven Spielberg film favourites
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  • ‘How do I deal with my rage? I put it in everything I do’: Killing Eve’s Sandra Oh on fury, friendship and hitting her prime in midlife
  • Social media bans are trending. But it’s too late for my son and me

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