Nicolas Winding Refn: ‘Cinema is dead. And now it is resurrected’
The maverick director says he has seen the future of the movies – and it’s in the ‘inspirational’ streaming website that he has devised
Why are memes of black people reacting so popular online?
The trend for ‘digital blackface’ – from the Fleetwood Mac marching band to unimpressed Viola Davis – is more problematic than you think
Tau review – Gary Oldman is an evil Alexa in another Netflix sci-fi disaster
The recent Oscar winner lends his voice to a moronic thriller about a woman trapped by artificial intelligence, which sits alongside other genre missteps on the streaming platform
Being human: how realistic do we want robots to be?
With Google’s AI assistant able to make phone calls and androids populating households in games and films, the line between machine and man is getting scarily blurred
Virtual truth: face to face with immersive documentaries
Experience life after a horrific accident, play a customs officer or swim with sea otters. A new breed of VR film-making is making viewers engage in a deeper way with the issues they confront
Teleportation: will it ever be a possibility?
Instant travel seems further away than when Captain Kirk first reanimated, but scientists are fighting to make it happen
How 3D printers became Hollywood’s favorite gimmick
Ocean’s 8 and Hotel Artemis are the latest films to use far-fetched technology to progress plots
Why are (some) Star Wars fans so toxic?
Kelly Marie Tran, who plays Rose, has received a torrent of online abuse and quit Instagram. Is the worst thing about Star Wars other Star Wars fans?
Kill the tech bro, save the world: how CEOs became Hollywood’s new supervillains
Upgrade, a new thriller set in a Tesla-like dystopia, is the latest big-budget film to replace the stereotypical evil Russian with the evil Silicon Valley nerd
Holograms: are they still the preserve of science fiction?
A projected Princess Leia in Star Wars suggested a 3D future, but we’ll have to wait a while before we are playing holochess
Celebrity species: from the DiCaprio water beetle to Obama spiders
Forget the awards and acclaim – nothing says you’ve hit the big time like having a creature named after you
Will Choose Your Own Adventure work on the big screen?
Fox will bring the book series to life with an in-cinema app that allows audience members to dictate the direction, an innovation that could lead to disaster
Online streaming services face ‘30% made in Europe’ law
EU law says services must meet ‘Netflix quota’ and fund European TV series and films
What kind of a person does Netflix favourites think I am?
I look at my algorithm-generated ‘Recommendations for Lizzie’, and I don’t like that person, says broadcaster Lizzie O’Shea
Unsane: how Steven Soderbergh manages to thrill with just an iPhone
The director’s latest film, shot entirely on a phone, is a dizzying deep dive into the psyche of a stalking victim kept in a mental care facility against her will. Contains spoilers