Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

As subscription costs rise and choice diminishes on legal sites, film and TV fans are turning to VPNs and illicit streamers, with Sweden – home of both Spotify and The Pirate Bay – leading the way

‘Nobody believes in the future any more’: Adam Curtis and Ari Aster on how to wake up from the post-truth nightmare

Paranoia is exploited to control us. Movies are groomed to flatter us. And trauma has been twisted to make us blame ourselves. How can we make sense of our lives? The two film-makers try to navigate the chaos

Can’t Look Away review – a harrowing, heartbreaking indictment of social media’s ruthlessness

Bloomberg journalist Olivia Carville follows a small legal outfit as it takes Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies to task for endangering young users

Excelling in … Excel? Inside the high-stakes, secretive world of competitive spreadsheeting

New documentary Spreadsheet Champions follows six competitors as they head to the Microsoft Office Specialist world championship in Florida

Aamir Khan: India’s movie legend on a cut-price mission to save Bollywood

The superstar actor will release his latest film on YouTube so families who cannot afford cinema trips can watch

Jeremy Strong eyed to play Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network sequel

The Succession star is reportedly the leading choice to play the controversial tech mogul in Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up

CatVideoFest: how clips of cute kitties spawned a million-dollar movie franchise

Every year since 2016, Will Braden has devoted himself to assembling a feature-length film from snippets of moggies doing the darndest things – and it has started to bring in serious money

Indian film company to rerelease romantic drama with AI ‘happy ending’

Director ‘heartbroken’ after 2013 film about doomed romance between Hindu man and Muslim woman altered without his knowledge

Ike Barinholtz cast as Elon Musk in OpenAI film from Luca Guadagnino

Emmy-nominated actor to play co-founder of OpenAI in Artificial, said to be set during Sam Altman’s firing and rehiring as CEO

‘You can make really good stuff – fast’: new AI tools a gamechanger for film-makers

Instead of spending millions and taking years to complete, creative directors are producing high-grade work using the latest software, but critics voice copyright concerns

Watch the Skies review – see the lips move in alien abduction sci-fi with pioneering AI

This nicely put together Swedish UFO throwback is notable for its early use of ‘vubbing’ – using tech to match lip movements to new English dialogue. What’s coming next?

M3gan 2.0 review – hit-and-miss sequel replaces horror with action comedy

A solidly made and passably entertaining follow-up to the viral doll hit tries to swerve the franchise into summer blockbuster territory with mixed results

Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network sequel officially in development

Oscar-winning writer returns to subject of his 2010 hit for follow-up based on Wall Street Journal series on Facebook

‘We were all pretty privileged’: Allison Williams on Girls, nepo babies and toxic momfluencers

She made her name in Lena Dunham’s landmark series, then starred in Get Out. As she returns in M3gan 2.0, the sequel to the hit horror about a murderous AI doll, she talks about parenting in an age of smartphones, Botox and her famous father

‘Have you heard of this BDSM trend?’ What I learned recording thousands of hours of teens on their phones

When documentary-maker Lauren Greenfield immersed herself in the online and offline lives of 25 teenagers, she unearthed a world of sexually explicit images, rape culture, bullying and suicidal ideation. Adolescence, she says, has become like the wild west