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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

The Truth About Killer Robots: the year’s most terrifying documentary

In a cautionary film, director Maxim Pozdorovkin lays out the many ways that automation could affect us in the long term from labor to sex to psychology

Assassination Nation review – revenge horror packed with insight

This gleefully gory exploitation film sets out to shock, but smartly dissects our online-obsessed society along the way

Ralph Breaks the Internet review – virtually impossible to enjoy tiresome arcade game re-run

The sequel to Wreck-It Ralph is an overstuffed but weirdly pointless exercise in tech worship that fails to include much that actually connects with the audience

‘A terrible shame’: Jude Law defends Woody Allen film after Amazon shelves it

Actor defends A Rainy Day in New York, shot in 2017 but postponed after cast members denounced the director

Our insatiable appetite for true crime leaves behind a moral hangover

After four years, the peak of the genre’s renaissance has passed, but have we really learned anything?

Rebel Wilson apologises for claiming to be first plus-sized lead in a romcom

The actor faced a media storm as she initially blocked Twitter complaints, before acknowledging other stars including Mo’Nique and Queen Latifah

Backlash over Lena Dunham script for Syrian refugee film

Girls creator is embroiled in a ‘whitewashing’ row after news that she is to adapt the story of Doaa Al-Zamel whose boat was rammed in the Mediterranean

Eco-pioneers in the 1970s: how aerospace workers tried to save their jobs – and the planet

A new documentary recalls the extraordinary but largely forgotten Lucas Plan, which saw British workers attempt to make wind turbines instead of weapons

‘It’s raining facts!’ Metahaven, the YouTube addicts fighting post-truth bots

They’ve explored pollution in the Urals, freight trains in China, and daily life in the world capital of fake news. Now the Dutch art crusaders have imagined Europe’s future – and it’s very medieval

Venom: what is a one-star film like in 4D?

Luckily it hasn’t got a complicated plot – or much sex. Hold the popcorn tight and prepare to get wet

Star Wars: The Last Jedi abuse blamed on Russian trolls and ‘political agendas’

Report finds half of negative comments aimed at Rian Johnson’s movie came from Twitter bots or trolls, indicating fan backlash was overstated

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