Julian Holloway, Carry On star and father of Sophie Dahl, dies aged 80

The actor starred in the innuendo-laced comedy films as well as TV sitcoms including Porridge and The Likely Lads

Elon Musk keeps bringing his kids to work – and the reasons aren’t cute at all

Is this fun fathering or a cynical and exploitative PR strategy from the tech billionaire? I suspect the latter, writes Arwa Mahdawi

Children are starting school unable to sit up or hold a pencil – and I know the culprit

As an early years specialist, I’ve seen the drastic impact of screens replacing physical activity and face-to-face interaction, writes early childhood consultant Kathryn Peckham

Get Shorty: a madcap, loving spoof of the film biz

Starring John Travolta as a loan shark who lands himself in Hollywood, this noirish satire is pure pastiche. Like its lead, it’s a sucker for the movies

East Is South review – weighty AI drama takes aim at humanity’s biggest questions

The actors, especially Kaya Scodelario, work hard with Beau Willimon’s plot, but are hampered by a leaden, tension-light production

‘He targeted me’: Guy Pearce says he ‘sobbed’ over Kevin Spacey encounters

The Oscar-nominated actor has said he is attempting to be more candid about his former co-star’s alleged behaviour

The Brutalist director Brady Corbet says he has made ‘zero dollars’ from the film

The multi-Oscar-nominated director has said many of his fellow contenders are experiencing similar financial difficulties

‘No micro transactions, no bullshit’: Josef Fares on Split Fiction and the joy of co-op video games

Fares is a refreshingly unpredictable voice, starting as a film director before moving into games; now, he says, working on a movie would be ‘a vacation’

More rhythm, less algorithm: why Deezer’s boss is vowing to put users in control of their music

Alexis Lanternier, chief executive of the French streaming service, says it can compete with bigger rivals by rewarding the real musicians its subscribers want to support

Little Bites review – something wicked this way noms in mum-snacking horror

A single mother is terrorised by an evil entity sapping her lifeforce and threatening her child in this decent horror with a genre fan’s dream cast

US and UK out of step with rest of the world on AI

Why the Paris summit on artificial intelligence failed and how Silicon Valley is toeing the Trump administration’s line

‘The most important thing was getting to the truth’: how Claude Lanzmann broke all the rules to create Shoah

French director Guillaume Ribot’s new film shines a light on the making of Lanzmann’s nine-hour Holocaust opus – a tale of obsession, deception and danger

Will Dune: Messiah be Villeneuve’s crowning achievement, or the moment the spice runs dry?

Denis Villeneuve has already done the well-nigh impossible, making two brilliant big-screen versions of Dune, but given the history of sci-fi film sequels, another could be a terrifying sandworm too many

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