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Games reviews roundup: Hitman; Mega Man Legacy Collection; Ishi-Sengoku-Den: Sadame

Hitman’s bite-sized assassinations will keep you coming back for more

Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley on the hunt for Lara Croft role in Tomb Raider reboot

Force Awakens star hopes to take archeological adventurer role in series based on the hugely popular video game

Flashdrives for freedom? 20,000 USBs to be smuggled into North Korea

Forget sanctions – campaigners say exposing residents to western TV is a powerful way to undermine the regime

Saving private property: Tom Hanks reunites missing socks with their owners

The Hollywood superstar has made it his business to alert people to their missing stuff – making the owners famous in the process

Computers might beat us at board games, but that doesn’t mean they’ll take over the world

So computers can now beat humans at Go – but why would they swap their game pieces for bombs?

Omer Fast: Present Continuous review – teasing takes on sex, death and trauma

This mesmerising collection of film and video work by the Israeli artist is full of dangling clues and subliminal messages, playing fast and loose with our credulity

Virtual reality pioneer Lynette Wallworth tells Indigenous story in explosive detail

Australian virtual reality artist for Sundance’s New Frontiers Institute set out to break all the rules for her milestone production, Collisions

Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg and JJ Abrams ‘back’ Napster founder’s Screening Room

Sean Parker’s plan to make Hollywood blockbusters available at home on the day of their cinema release ‘will expand audiences’, says Jackson

Richard Billingham: ‘I just hated growing up in that tower block’

The photographer was a pioneer of ‘squalid realism’ with his images of his parents’ dreary existence in the Black Country. Now he’s turning their life into a feature film

Napster founder plans to screen movies at home on day they hit cinemas

Revolutionary Screening Room venture by Sean Parker could end ‘theatrical window’ by offering new films at $50 a pop – despite industry doubts

Beauty site apologises for mistaking Whoopi Goldberg for Oprah Winfrey at Oscars

Total Beauty has promised to donate $10,000 to charity after admitting there were ‘no excuses’ for its Twitter error

First episode of David Bowie’s Blackstar miniseries posted on Instagram

The first of a 16-part series called Unbound, with music from Blackstar and starring Tavi Gevinson and Patricia Clarkson, has been posted to Instagram

#OscarsSoWhite: a 10-point plan for change by the hashtag’s creator

How should the Academy Awards address its diversity problem? The woman behind the hashtag, April Reign, shares her suggestions

Oregon man pleads guilty to stealing nude and explicit photos of celebrities

An Oregon man who accessed hundreds of email accounts and stole the photos from 13 people has pleaded guilty to a felony hacking charge in Los Angeles

Amazon buys new Woody Allen film while Netflix hides Crouching Tiger sequel from critics

These are strange times for streaming, as rival services take opposing approaches to exclusive film rights

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  • Forgotten Island review – best friends forever trapped in frantic DreamWorks animation
  • Twenty years after An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore still believes in the climate fight: ‘We are going to win this’
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  • Manhunter review – Michael Mann serves up a bold and queasy starter to the serial killer spectacle
  • Boorman and the Devil review – enjoyable re-evaluation of the disaster that was Exorcist II: The Heretic
  • Another taste of honey: Shelagh Delaney’s long-lost play about a teenage truant is a little gem
  • North Sea, Nature Untamed review – stunning footage finds the beauty and splendour under the water
  • The Love Hypothesis review – hit BookTok romcom lacks spark on screen
  • Remake review – Ross McElwee’s magnificent and moving tribute to a tragic loss and the art it inspired
  • Post your questions for Miranda Richardson
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  • Shadows of Beirut review – chaos and crisis as woman goes back to birth city in fractured Covid-era drama
  • Brigitte Bardot’s personal items sell for nearly €1m at auction in Paris
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  • Babystar review – a new arrival upends camera-ready life in disturbing family influencer satire

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