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
Silk Road review – high-free account of the dark-web drugs emporium
Taking a fanboy stance on Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht doesn’t help Tiller Russell’s underpowered Silicon Valley crime drama