The Story of Film: A New Generation review – invigorating study of 21st century cinema

Critic and film-maker Mark Cousins offers a new instalment in his monumental Story of Film series, examining what digital technology has brought to the table

Sweat review – the loneliness of the social media influencer

Magnus von Horn’s contrived Polish drama about a fitness guru promises more in shock and character than it delivers

George RR Martin, console-less games and a Final Fantasy fail: the biggest news from E3 2021

This year’s online-only E3 video game expo was hardly the usual explosion of blockbuster games, but there were still some standout stories

How we made Short Circuit, by Steve Guttenberg and John Badham

‘A producer said: “Great – but can he dance?” So we got him to move like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever’

A view to a killing: how Amazon will exploit Bond and other MGM classics

The pay-TV giant has the chance to turn popular films into ‘universes’ of stories – and steal a march in the content-hungry streaming wars

Sony Movie Channel has been renamed Great! But how? And why?!

Sony’s Freeview TV staple has a new name, with an exclamation mark to show how exciting it is! What’s the thinking behind the rebrand? And who’s watching?

Overshare: are there any good films about social media?

From Mainstream to Profile to Sweat, three films released this summer attempt the rare feat of capturing the experience of being online in a hyper-connected world

Amazon in talks to buy Hollywood studio MGM for $9bn

The film company, which owns the James Bond franchise, had held talks with Netflix and Apple

Space race 2: Russian actor bound for ISS in same month as Tom Cruise

Hollywood star is aiming to be first to shoot a feature film in space, but Russia has launched rival bid

Films shot on smartphones herald new age for cinema, say directors

London’s first international festival for movies made on mobiles will celebrate innovation, diversity and access

Historian fights to establish William Friese-Greene as true father of cinema

On the centenary of his death, admirers hope to win recognition for the Bristol photographer’s motion picture camera

Threshold review – road trip out of hell in iPhone horror

A brother and sister try to escape a satanic spell in this cruddy horror story shot entirely on iPhones

Auggie review – watchable hi-tech satire doesn’t quite know what to say

Richard Kind is compelling as the retiree seduced by a VR ‘companion’, but the film fails to do much with its rather familiar premise

Infinitum: Subject Unknown review – solo time-loop echoes lockdown vexation

This iPhone-shot sci-fi drama with cameos from Ian McKellen and Conleth Hill is impressively realised, though the plot ultimately frustrates

Selfie review – droll Gallic eye on slaves to the algorithm

Online metrics are pillow talk, and digital secrets go public in this tragicomic portmanteau of five stories about our relationship with technology