4 h. ago The Guardian view on Tilly Norwood: she’s not art, she’s data | Editorial

The first 100% AI actor is a cause for alarm. But the human connection of great acting can never be replacedThe threat to human creativity from technology took another step closer this week with the appearance of Tilly Norwood, the first 100% AI-generated actor. Unsurprisingly, her unveiling at the Zurich film festival in a comic sketch called AI Commissioner caused an outcry. Emily Blunt described the film as “terrifying” and the actors’ union Sag-Aftra condemned it as “jeopardising performer livelihoods and devaluing human artistry”.There is much that is problematic about Norwood, not least the message her “girl-next-door vibe” sends to young women. But the more serious point is that her face has been made from those of real actors without their knowledge or consent. Her lighthearted debut masks the fact that she is part of a new model of media production that rides roughshod over longstanding norms and laws governing artists and their work. Hollywood has been anticipating Norwood...

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62 h. ago New on Netflix in October 2025, including chilling bodycam film called ‘best of the year’

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2 d. ago Australian film producers and experts call Trump tariff proposal ‘bizarre’ and impossible to enforce

US president threatens levy on all foreign-made films, but experts point out that the industry is global and Australia is intertwined with HollywoodFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government has vowed to fight a proposed 100% tariff on Australian-made films after the US president, Donald Trump, posted on his social media platform that he planned to go ahead with the huge levy “on any and all movies made outside the United States”.Industry experts have described the proposal as bizarre and virtually impossible to enforce, given the global nature of film, with production, financing and post-production often spread across several countries. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Netflix's new film called 'weird Notting Hill' by critics but fans can't get enough

A new rom-com film has been slammed by professional critics, but fans have insisted it's the perfect formula for a guilty pleasure

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6 d. ago The UK seaside resort that doubles as California with seafood shack cafe and golden beach

WHEN it comes to the UK, there are plenty of beautiful beaches, but now all of them can double as California. Yet a new movie with two massive British actors has since been seen filming there - pretending to be the US state. In the new film called The Roses, - featuring Olivia Colman and...

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7 d. ago Mikey Madison will play a Facebook whistleblower in Aaron Sorkin's ‘Social Network’ follow

Aaron Sorkin is diving back into the world of Facebook with a new film called “The Social Reckoning.”

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8 d. ago BBC and news agencies launch short film calling on Israel for access to Gaza

The film has been narrated by veteran BBC journalist David Dimbleby.

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8 d. ago Special relationship? There can be no such thing with a snake like Trump | Aditya Chakrabortty

Keir Starmer has spent the best part of a year cosying up to the US president. It will be no surprise when he gets bittenFor all the ink shed on the subject of Donald Trump, hardly a word is said about his love of poetry. Yet there is at least one piece of verse he adores and regularly performs to cheering crowds. Last month, the White House even turned it into a short film. Called The Snake (and originally written as a song by Oscar Brown Jr), it is as close as this president gets to a credo.The poem begins with a half-frozen snake, “all frosted with the dew” and begging to be taken into the warmth. His plea is heeded by a “tender-hearted woman”:Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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1 week ago Mission Alarum review – dreadful Sylvester Stallone spy thriller shames cinema itself

Donald Trump’s ‘special ambassador to Hollywood’ plays a grizzled agent in this dismal action movie Back at the beginning of the second Trump administration (which feels like the Jurassic era now), the president named Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight “special ambassadors to a great but troubled place, Hollywood, California.” No one seems to be quite sure what these ambassadorships entail or if any of that troika of right-wing fellow travellers have fulfilled any official duties. But on the evidence of this, Stallone is already letting the side down – by making a film so bad it shames American cinema itself. And it wasn’t even made in Hollywood! Instead, it was shot in Ohio (pretending, deeply unconvincingly, to be Poland), making this what’s called a runaway production, the phenomenon that is undermining Hollywood’s film-making industry.However, this cheapola would-be spy thriller is bad all on its own, whatever its politics. The idea is that secret agents Joe (Scott Ea...

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1 week ago Duke of Sussex features in film calling for investment to end Aids

Funding cuts are affecting countries with high HIV rates by creating shortages of community health workers and data collectors, Unaids said.

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1 week ago Dreamers review – powerful film about immigrant kids in the US, denied their chance of citizenship

Study of the fate of undocumented children brought to the US, now grown up and paying taxes, yet under constant threat of deportation and removalFor undocumented immigrants, life is a state of perpetual limbo; the present is fraught with unexpected dangers, while the future is as ephemeral as a mirage. Shot in lyrical black and white, Stéphanie Barbey and Luc Peter’s documentary astutely conveys these feelings of anxiety and isolation. The film centres on the so-called Dreamers, migrants who were brought to the US as children without papers. Carlos, the main subject, is one such case: originally from Mexico, he crossed the border at the age of nine with his three brothers and his parents. Now in his late 30s, Carlos has spent all of his adult life in America, yet there is no legal pathway for him to citizenship.A tragedy looms large. Jorge, one of Carlos’s siblings, was deported to Mexico after a minor driving offence, leaving behind his partner and his son. The enforced separation ...

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2 w. ago Maura Higgins, Perrie Edwards and Chloe Burrows lead thrilled celebrity reactions to The Summer I Turned Pretty film as they call it 'the best news of 2025' and cheer 'IT'S NOT OVER!'

Maura Higgins, Perrie Edwards and Chloe Burrows couldn't contain their excitement as they led the celebrity reactions The Summer I Turned Pretty film announcement.

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2 w. ago “London Calling” film premiere with East Tennessee actor Jeremy Ray Taylor

“London Calling” film premiere with East Tennessee actor Jeremy Ray Taylor  WJHL

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2 w. ago Movie Review: ‘London Calling’ is Just Good Enough To Pick Up

Movie Review: ‘London Calling’ is Just Good Enough To Pick Up  InSession Film

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2 w. ago 'Shrekking' dating trend, where people pick 'ugly' partners because they're 'kinder', is growing in popularity

A new dating trend called Shrekking, inspired by the popular ogre film franchise, is becoming popular on the courting scene - but some have called it 'toxic'

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3 w. ago David Bowie's legendary Major Tom identity revealed after 56 years

The identity of David Bowie's Major Tom has been revealed for the first time after 56 years, as a handwritten synopsis for a film called Young Americans sheds new light on the character

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3 w. ago ‘Masterful’ Leonardo DiCaprio thriller tipped for Oscar glory after rave reviews

One critic called ‘One Battle After Another’ the best film of the last 15 years

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3 w. ago Israeli film industry calls boycott pledge ‘deeply troubling’

Screenwriters’ guild of Israel says campaign that has now won backing from 1,800 film-makers will only ‘deepen the darkness’, while representatives of the country’s documentary and directors’ guild also voice concernRepresentatives of the Israeli film industry are redoubling efforts to caution against the wisdom of a pledge signed by some 1,800 significant professionals vowing not to work with Israeli film institutions they say are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people”.The pledge, announced on Monday, was initially signed by 1,200 film-makers including Yorgos Lanthimos, Ava DuVernay, Asif Kapadia, Boots Riley and Joshua Oppenheimer; and actors Olivia Colman, Mark Ruffalo, Tilda Swinton, Javier Bardem, Ayo Edebiri, Riz Ahmed, Josh O’Connor, Cynthia Nixon, Julie Christie, Ilana Glazer, Rebecca Hall, Aimee Lou Wood and Debra Winger. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Daniel Craig called ‘electric’ as new Knives Out film earns rave reviews

Rian Johnson’s latest film has been praised for finding its footing again

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4 w. ago Steven Spielberg ‘turned down by Call of Duty film’ after demands

‘Jurassic Park’ director reportedly sought to adapt the hit video game franchise into a film

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