Sacha Baron Cohen: ‘If you’re protesting against racism, you’re going to upset some racists’

Stopping Trump, reforming Facebook and risking his life to make a Borat sequel. In an exclusive interview, the actor unveils his plans for a revolution – and reveals how it feels to come out as himself

Tights! Spatulas! Action! The madcap world of chain reaction videos

Need your hair cut? Cake served? No problem! Lockdown has led millions to discover the work of Joseph Herscher and friends, whose absurdly complicated ‘labour-saving’ machines reveal the potential for magic in the everyday

Pvt Chat review – refreshingly grownup take on virtual sex

This mumblecore drama about a man’s obsession with an online sex worker is uncomfortably funny and semi-insightful

Are we all living in the Matrix? Behind a documentary on simulation theory

In A Glitch in the Matrix, film-maker Rodney Ascher speaks to people who are convinced that the world we’re living in isn’t real

A Glitch in the Matrix review – deep-dive into simulation theory

Using animation, archive and clips from the movie franchise, Rodney Ascher’s genre-bending doc gives philosophers and kooks space to explain why we are living in a synthetic world

Life in a Day 2020 review – ambitious, bizarre and hugely exasperating

Kevin Macdonald’s film aims to give a snapshot of the modern world but its context-free clips look more like a corporate ad

Never mind machines getting cleverer – is technology making me stupider?

Thanks to too-useful apps and gadgets I have managed to lose some basic skills, from map-reading to finding my phone. Is this the real threat from AI, asks Adrian Chiles

Ladies and Gentleman, the Fabulous Stains: teenage Diane Lane and Laura Dern rock punk

This long-buried gem from 1982 about a teen-girl punk band subverts the great rock’n’roll swindle of the Sex Pistols

When film stars attack: Russell Crowe’s reaction to criticism could set a trend

The actor’s unexpected response to a complaint about an 18-year-old film could pave the way for big-name actors to personally insult Twitter users

Archive review – anyone for a posthuman wife? She comes with an off switch

A lonely computer scientist in the year 2038 secretly works on an android version of his wife who died in a car crash – is it romantic, or something more sinister?

The Intergalactic Adventures of Max Cloud review – video game send-up is virtually pointless

This affectionate spoof of early 90s gaming scores high in nostalgia, but lags without comedic heavy-hitters

UK lockdowns fuel record year for home entertainment spending

Netflix, Prime and Disney+ surge 38% to £2.9bn in 2020, with Frozen 2 the biggest selling video

Hollywood studio MGM puts itself up for sale at $5bn

Studio behind James Bond franchise looks to cash in on rocketing prices for content amid TV streaming boom

iHuman review – doom-laden documentary about the future of AI

Are the robots going to kills us? Film-maker Tonje Hessen Schei speaks to a range of interviewees including Elon Musk’s computer scientist in an eye-opening, anxiety-inducing film

Elvis meets the Evil Dead as comedy rewinds to the VHS era

The cult show that splices Evil Dead II with Elvis Presley hits is now on video cassette as standups hark back to retro formats