Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl review – an unmissable, ingenious Christmas treat

Our favourite animated heroes return, facing arch nemesis Feathers McGraw alongside a malfunctioning AI gnome – it’s an exciting, ingenious and utterly timeless joy

‘Very disheartened’: trans actor speaks out as Disney changes her Pixar character to be cisgender

Studio says ‘many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline’

Amazon workers across US gear up to strike this week

Move comes after company fails to meet deadline to begin contract talks with workers in Staten Island, New York

The Guardian view on online safety: ministers must stand up to big tech

Editorial: With a code full of holes, Ofcom has shown that it is unfit to hold the world’s biggest businesses to account

Nima Momeni found guilty in murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee

Momeni, 40-year-old tech consultant, found guilty of second-degree murder in the 2023 stabbing of Lee, 43

Mufasa: The Lion King review – storytelling takes pride of place in punchy origin tale

This heartfelt prequel to the 1994 classic recounts the dramatic backstory of King Mufasa but is scarred by a forgettable musical score

Can the Russos find a good reason for Chris Evans’s return to Marvel?

Captain America mark one’s reappearance in the forthcoming Doctor Doom needs to do more than clutch at past MCU glories

Will the future of transportation be robotaxis – or your own self-driving car?

GM is shutting down its robotaxi business, Tesla is creating one of its own – what does the future hold for self-driving?

Richard E Grant’s renaissance is a pleasure to watch – and it all began with Withnail and I

Planning to go away this Christmas? It is worth revisiting this top-shelf comedy about two boozy would-be actors who go on holiday by mistake

Marisa Paredes, Almodóvar star and legend of Spanish cinema, dies aged 78

Roles in All About My Mother and Life is Beautiful cemented her status as one of Spain’s ‘most iconic’ actors

UK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AI

Consultation suggests opt-out scheme for creatives who don’t want their work used by Google, OpenAI and others

Amazon-hosted AI tool for UK military recruitment ‘carries risk of data breach’

Ministry of Defence says risk with Textio tool is low and ‘robust safeguards’ have been put in place by suppliers

Best movies of 2024 in the US: No 4 – Anora

The Hollywood romcom is turned on it head in this tale of an exotic dancer and an oligarch’s son who get hitched before the honeymoon turns sour

If you’ve got children, you need to watch Swiped – and see how sick their phones are making them

A TV documentary has revealed the toll of smartphone use on 11-year-olds’ mental health, and the consequences of addiction, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

‘Without a voice, she had no self’: who was the real Maria Callas?

A new Oscar-tipped Netflix film sheds light on the later years of the opera legend, played by Angelina Jolie, and the problems she faced