Avatar: The Way of Water review – a soggy, twee, trillion-dollar screensaver
Thirteen years in the making, James Cameron’s insipid, overlong followup to his sci-fi record-breaker is a very expensive beached whale
Video of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at Oscars tops YouTube chart
Guardian clip which attracted more than 103m views and 1.5m likes was highest trending in UK this year
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
Access All Areas review – brave family’s quest to change attitudes to disability
Charlotte Fantelli’s documentary about activist Simon Sansome and his wife is let down by clichés and embarrassing reconstruction scenes
Dune subreddit group bans AI-generated art for being ‘low effort’
Moderators of community devoted to sci-fi films and novels say they want to prioritise ‘human-made’ art
Salt for Svanetia review – poetic, dreamlike Soviet documentary of forgotten world
Mikhail Kalatozov’s 1930s film gives a fascinating account of a medieval-style society about the supposed blessings of the USSR’s modernising impact
Cages review – hologram rock musical is a dreary dystopia
An overreliance on technology and a doomy score can’t replace old-fashioned chemistry in this emotionless offering
Avatar review – James Cameron’s laboriously silly blockbuster shows its age
Ahead of the release of new chapter, the first in the franchise yields little – even the much-vaunted tech is old hat
Eye for an eye: Javier Bardem iris NFT to be sold for sight-saving charity
Image of actor’s eye to be auctioned to fund Ojos del Mundo in preventing blindness in developing world
Jean-Luc Godard: a genius who tore up rule book without troubling to read it
Godard was the inspired maverick of the French New Wave, the Lennon to Truffaut’s McCartney, and kept his radical imagination to the very end
Talking cats, magic brooms and robot bar staff – welcome to the future of storytelling
The Venice film festival section Venice Immersive is dedicated to ‘extended reality’, where visitors can explore new narrative worlds. Our intrepid correspondent gets lost
K-everything: the rise and rise of Korean culture
From music to film, technology to food, the world has fallen in love with everything South Korean. Tim Adams visits Seoul in search of the origins of hallyu – the Korean wave
Black Mail review – Nollywood’s finest head for London with cybercrime thriller
A film star faces financial and family ruin as sleazy Russian mobsters blackmail him after malware films him watching porn