Seeking Mavis Beacon review – tracking a Black female tech icon, who didn’t exist
Documentary investigates the whereabouts of the model who played an influential corporate character, as well as the relationship between race and technology
US media stocks slide on Wall Street after Trump threatens movie tariffs
Netflix, Amazon, Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount shares fall as studios reel from announcement
Cloud review – bizarre internet action thriller descends into hail of bullets
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s baffling crime farrago follows a cyber fraudster pursued by an angry gang of disappointed shoppers
Private Footage review – found-footage study of apartheid takes the split-screen route
Director Janaína Nagata places her own internet research into South African history side by side with the vintage 16mm home movie footage that inspired it
Which celebrities are lying about their height? This website’s done the research
On Celebheights.com, thousands of users measure the statures of the rich and famous. The methods are scientific and the debates are fiery
David Cronenberg says Brutalist AI controversy was a ‘campaign against’ the film by rival Oscar nominees
The director was discussing the row over Adrien Brody’s AI-enhanced Hungarian accent, saying ‘we mess with actors’ voices all the time’
The Thinking Game review – DeepMind study offers wide-lens view of our tech lords and AGI
Director Greg Kohs uses every tool in the editing palette to explain how Artificial General Intelligence (as differentiated from Artificial Intelligence) works
Twins! Rivals! Clones! Hollywood is doubling down on dual roles
Robert Pattinson, Robert De Niro and Michael B Jordan are all pulling double duty in their new films and that’s just the start
What are smartphones stealing from us? When mine was taken away, I found out
As a Paris film extra, I surrendered my device and discovered the extraordinary connections I miss while staring at my screen
First, catch your (CGI) dragon: hope that visual effects breakthrough can reanimate UK film industry
Pioneering startup technology allows camera operators to see on-screen graphics while filming in real world, rather just imagining them
Sora, OpenAI’s video generator, has hit the UK. It’s obvious why creatives are worried
The technology, just released in Europe and the UK, clearly has the potential to transform the film, TV and advertising industries
OpenAI launches Sora video generation tool in UK amid copyright row
‘Sora would not exist without its training data,’ said peer Beeban Kidron, citing ‘another level of urgency’ to debate
UK ministers consider changing AI plans to protect creative industries
Exclusive: partial climbdown over use of work protected by copyright considered after intense lobbying by top artists
Cold Wallet review – blackly comic revenge fable goes into crypto’s corrupt heart
Fickle financial dealings leave a man and his friends in debt, prompting them to go in search of the slippery crypto king responsible and hold him to account
Bond fans shaken over $1bn Amazon franchise takeover
Megafans fear tech company’s deal could mean an end to the films’ unique characteristics