September Says review – intense sisterly bond leads to things getting strange in rural Ireland
There’s a lot to grab your attention here, but strong performances struggle to save Ariane Labed’s adaptation of Daisy Johnson’s novel Sisters
Why Emilia Pérez should win the best picture Oscar
Despite the controversy this is a wildly inventive and ambitious film. Completely absurd, subversive and never, ever boring, it still deserves to be in the discussion
Under the influence: Beast Games and the YouTube-ification of television
Amazon’s hugely successful extreme competition series is the latest attempt to lure younger online viewers to TV
The Birthday review – cult Corey Feldman movie arrives after 20 years in film wilderness
Given a boost by Jordan Peele, this hyped ‘lost’ movie from Eugenio Mira about freaky goings-on at a hotel finally gets a proper release
Escape from the 21st Century review – teenagers fast-forward to the future in barmy sci-fi
Three school friends discover their adult selves in this fast and flashy adventure debut from director Li Yang
James Bond won’t die on my watch, says Austrian who wants ownership of 007
Exclusive: Property developer making trademark challenge claims the spy franchise is in mortal danger
Crypto investment scammers exploit fake images of Penny Wong in social media ads
Ads falsely purporting to be from news outlet reported fake claims the foreign affairs minister was jailed for speaking about ‘investment’ opportunity
Meta plans to link US and India with world’s longest undersea cable project
Project Waterworth, which involves cable longer than Earth’s circumference, to also reach South Africa and Brazil
What Marielle Knows review – teenager’s telepathic powers reveal parents’ secrets and lies
In this fantasy-satire of bourgeois family life, a girl is suddenly able to see everything her messed-up parents are up to
‘Clambering about in Victorian boots was brutal’: how we made Picnic at Hanging Rock
‘A potential US distributor,’ recalls director Peter Weir, ‘supposedly threw his coffee cup at the screen at the end of the film, saying, “So whodunnit?” He felt he’d wasted a couple of hours’
People (Ludzie) review – multi-thread epic offers raw tales from the Russia-Ukraine war
The brutalising reality of the battlefield connects five different stories in this anti-war drama
Girls on Wire review – Chinese behind-the-scenes stunt drama is a spectacle
A stunt double who plays roof-bouncing ninjas before the lead steps in for the closeup is stuck in a family/mob triangle in Vivian Qu’s occasionally silly thriller
A ‘great shock’: Julianne Moore’s children’s book under review by Trump administration
The actor’s book Freckleface Strawberry is on a list of library books suspended for a ‘compliance review’ after a presidential executive order
Intercepted review – phone taps are a chilling glimpse into Russian soldiers’ minds in Ukraine
Recordings of fighters’ wiretapped phone calls are juxtaposed with images of wartime destruction in Oksana Karpovych’s compelling war documentary
Night Agent star who played JD Vance in Hillbilly Elegy condemns actors who get political
Gabriel Basso says actors should ‘shut the fuck up’ and that they have no authority to publicly bestow political views