Press stop: why Hollywood needs to quit relying on the vlogger

In teen weepie Five Feet Apart, a lazy new trend continues with characters relying on video confessionals to reveal information

James Bond to drive electric Aston Martin in new movie

Reports have emerged that Daniel Craig will get behind the wheel of a zero-emissions motor in his latest adventure – only £250,000 to dedicated fans

Tesseract review – strap in for the shapeshifting worlds of Charles Atlas

Inspired by a 1940s sci-fi novella, the artist teams up with Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener for a bracing dance experiment

Rotten Tomatoes rescues Captain Marvel from review trolls

The reviews aggregator has stopped comments being posted before a film’s release date after Brie Larson’s forthcoming movie attracted hostility for having a female lead

Go with the flow: the mesmerising moves of Russell Maliphant

With a dance version of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, a collaboration with Greek composer Vangelis and his touring show Silent Lines, the questing choreographer is busier than ever

Don’t stop at The Departed’s rat: six other movie scenes that should be cut

The car visible in the background in Braveheart? Kevin Spacey in Baby Driver? The money must be raised via Kickstarter to excise these and other crimes against film-making

Woody Allen launches $68m legal action against Amazon

Director sues studio after his latest film, A Rainy Day in New York, is shelved following renewal of abuse allegation, which he denies

Leave Timothée Chalamet alone! Why what happens on a plane should stay on a plane

A series of breathless tweets about an in-flight encounter with the actor has gone viral – yet another example of creepy onboard behaviour

YouTube bans dangerous pranks after Bird Box challenge

Platform acts after challenge leads to people walking through traffic and driving while blindfolded

Apple-produced movie On the Rocks reunites Bill Murray and Sofia Coppola

Comedy star and director who delivered Oscar-winning global hit Lost in Translation spearhead tech giant’s $4bn move into content

One perfect shot: the unsung power of cinematography

Cinematographers can have as much influence over a film as a director. But will prestige TV and declining ticket sales at cinemas put their craft at risk?

First Gatwick. Now a film about a serial killer drone. We have been warned

The airport shutdown was just the start. As new horror film The Drone informs us, it’s only a matter of time before aerial threat destroys us all

To a man with an algorithm all things look like an advertising opportunity

Facebook’s tone-deaf response to a woman who continued to be bombarded by parenting ads after her son was stillborn highlights big tech’s bro-gramming problem

The Guardian view on the Turner prize: art as politics

Editorial: It has been a year when artists have had no choice but to be part of the wider debate

Motion impossible: Tom Cruise declares war on TV frame interpolation

It’s over. Now Tom Cruise has set his sights on ‘motion smoothing’ – the TV effect that makes films look like soap operas – it’s only a matter of time before you tweak the settings