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Hollywood’s tech leader films face scrutiny over studios’ industry ties

  • Three films examine Zuckerberg, Musk and Altman.
  • Hollywood’s tech ties complicate their critical stance.
  • The films may reflect public scepticism more than create it.

Three films about tech leaders, *The Social Reckoning*, *Musk* and *Artificial*, are arriving amid growing public scepticism about the power and promises of Silicon Valley. Their focus on Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Sam Altman could look like a shared Hollywood rebuke, but the article argues that studios’…

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Iñárritu’s Digger divides viewers before delivering a powerful finale

  • *Digger* earned $20 million in its opening weekend.
  • Its budget is at least $125 million.
  • The reviewer praises its challenging style and moving finale.

Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s *Digger*, starring Tom Cruise, has opened to weak box office and sharply divided critics and audiences. The reviewer argues that its deliberately disorienting, excessive style can test viewers’ patience, but leads to a powerful finale. The film follows an oil executive whose drilling disaster threatens…

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The Social Reckoning review – Aaron Sorkin’s jittery sequel with all-new evil puppet Zuckerberg

  • Jeremy Strong plays Zuckerberg as a contemptuous puppet in Sorkin's Facebook drama
  • Whistleblower Frances Haugen exposes algorithm changes fuelling extremism and hate
  • Film avoids naming Trump despite Capitol riots connection

Aaron Sorkin has written and directed a sequel to The Social Network, focusing on the 2021 Facebook whistleblowing campaign by employee Frances Haugen and Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz. The film explores how Zuckerberg altered Facebook's algorithm to prioritise engagement through rage-bait and hate speech, actions that…

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The mystery of what actually happened at RAF Fairford that’s straight out of a Hollywood thriller: Were US bombers targeted by an audacious drone attack straight out of the Ukrainian playbook?

  • US withdraws £3.6bn B-1 bomber fleet from RAF Fairford over suspected Iranian drone threat
  • Seven arrested in counter-terrorism operations; Iran had explicitly threatened the base
  • Rural Gloucestershire village becomes centre of international military security crisis

The US military withdrew a fleet of B-1 bombers worth £3.6 billion from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire after intelligence suggested an imminent Iranian drone attack. The base has hosted American bombers since March 2026 for Middle East operations, which prompted Iran to explicitly threaten it in July, stating…

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Scottish film could steal The Jazz Singer’s crown as ‘world’s first talkie’

  • 1926 Scottish film Till the Bells Ring beat The Jazz Singer to be first talkie
  • Scottish playwright Graham Moffat wrote the 46-minute domestic comedy in Scots dialect
  • Film reels survive in archives but lay undiscovered for a century

A Scottish film made in Glasgow and written in Scots has been discovered to predate "The Jazz Singer" by a year, potentially rewriting film history. Till the Bells Ring premiered in Edinburgh in October 1926 with synchronised dialogue and spoken word, making it possibly the world's first feature-length…

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Guadagnino’s comedy revisits OpenAI’s origins but misses tech culture’s wider story

  • Guadagnino’s film turns OpenAI’s origins into broad satire.
  • Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman as self-serving and manipulative.
  • The review finds little insight beneath the comedy.

Luca Guadagnino’s *Artificial* reimagines the origins of OpenAI as a campy comedy about Sam Altman and the people around him. The film presents Altman as a manipulative, self-interested figure, but the review argues that its blunt satire offers little insight into the tech elite or the wider culture…

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Bystander crashes into car to stop Oklahoma woman accused of targeting ex-boyfriend

  • A bystander crashed into Harper’s car to stop it reaching her ex.
  • Police say the chase followed repeated damage to Fortune’s parked car.
  • Harper faces several charges and is held on $100,000 bond.

Ruth Harper, 61, has been accused of driving under the influence and trying to hit her former boyfriend, Edward Fortune, with her car in Ponca City, Oklahoma. A bystander, Dave Williams, crashed his own car into Harper’s vehicle just before it reached Fortune, while police pursued her. The…

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Skydance completes $111bn Warner Bros Discovery takeover, raising CNN independence concerns

  • Deal consolidates Hollywood studios with CNN and CBS News under single owner.
  • Settlement requires minimum 30 films yearly and independent editorial boards at news outlets.
  • Questions raised about editorial independence after ownership changes at other news organisations.

Skydance has completed its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, consolidating two of Hollywood's five remaining legacy studios alongside major news outlets CNN and CBS News. The consolidation creates a media conglomerate that raises concerns among regulators and competitors about market concentration and the independence of news…

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Alice Diop’s Paris installation celebrates women artists and consolation

  • Alice Diop’s new installation centres on women who have shaped and supported her.
  • It brings art, film, readings, music and dance to Paris’s Palais d’Iéna.
  • A Simone Leigh sculpture aims to address her lack of exhibitions in France.

French film-maker Alice Diop has created Geste de Consolation, a five-day installation combining film, art, readings, music and dance at Paris’s Palais d’Iéna. It brings together women whose work has influenced and supported her, exploring consolation while giving greater visibility to artists who have been marginalised or underrepresented…

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Music themed horror anthology mixes murderous puppets, gore and uneven shorts

  • Metal band Gwar hosts five music-themed horror shorts with more gore than genuine scares.
  • Standout entries feature murderous puppets and visually striking but thin narratives.
  • The effects are deliberately absurd, unlikely to frighten, but unpleasantly darkly funny.

V/H/S/Mixtape is the latest entry in the horror anthology series, this time centred on music and sound with metal band Gwar hosting the linking segments. The five short films vary significantly in quality and length, serving up darkly humorous gore through deliberately absurd practical effects that prioritise laughs…

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