An Impossible Project review – life after digital in forward-looking retro doc
Florian Kaps – Vienna’s answer to Steve Jobs – enthuses over analogue hardware and makes a persuasive case for moving beyond an online existence
‘I don’t want to upset people’: Tom Cruise deepfake creator speaks out
Visual effects artist Christopher Ume reveals he made TikTok fakes with help from Cruise impersonator
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