‘It’s spot on’: Facebook worker sees parallels with The Circle
The Circle envisions an omnipotent social media platform whose quest for tech utopia turns sour. Sound familiar?
What if we’re living in a computer simulation?
Virtual reality technology is making great advances, but it has also helped popularise a theory long debated by philosophers and now gaining supporters in Silicon Valley – that the outside world is itself a simulation
Heavy hitters and hot tickets: Cannes 2017 is as mouthwatering as ever
Michael Haneke’s Happy End leads the charge for this year’s Palme d’Or, but there are tasty spectacles on the Croisette wherever you look
Could the Call of Duty franchise be the next Marvel?
Activision Blizzard wants to turn the beloved shooter title into a big-screen force to rival Disney’s superhero arm. Can it succeed where others have failed?
Digital love: why cinema can’t get enough of cyberpunk
Ghost in the Shell is part of a cult subgenre whose lineage stretches back to the 1920s – and whose visions have never seemed so prescient
Christopher Nolan and Sofia Coppola urge fans to watch films in cinemas, not on Netflix
As studios reckon with the rise of streaming, the two directors ask audiences to watch their movies on the big screen, where they’re ‘meant to be seen’
Shia LaBeouf’s Trump art project shut down one day after moving to Liverpool
He Will Not Divide Us is curtailed on police advice after reports of ‘dangerous trespassing’, with alt-right group thought to be involved
Does Netflix changing its rating system matter? No, because people are still awful
Star ratings are out and thumbs going up and down are in – yet deciding whether to watch London has Fallen should still be a personal decision
No more ‘death & taxes’ – but do we really want to live forever with nothing to do?
The Future of Work and Death documentary questions the real consequences of our preoccupation with progress for its own sake
Creative England Future Leaders list revealed
The list recognises businesses for their services to creativity and innovation and includes startups in the film, tech and gaming industries
David v Goliath: how self-funded eco documentaries are taking the fight to the masses
The activist film-makers behind Our Power and The Bentley Effect struggled for funding but hope to unite communities
Ghost in the system: has technology ruined horror films?
Well-dwelling Samara gets streamed in Rings, an HD reboot of The Ring, yet the genre has shown that a tech update doesn’t always lead to more scares
In praise of Resident Evil: the horror stalwart that refuses to die
It started as a cult game that scared a generation before spawning a film franchise that is about to call it a day. For one writer, it’s still body horror at its best
UK box office still in love with Oscars darling La La Land
Damien Chazelle’s musical paean to Hollywood outshines James McAvoy in Split and Vin Diesel’s return as action hero Xander Cage
The reality of rape is still clouded in myth
Findings by the Fawcett Society show a woeful ignorance of the facts surrounding sexual assault