A Merry Little Ex-Mas review – Netflix’s season of cheap Christmas spirit starts with a shrug
Alicia Silverstone is latest 90s star to lead a film for the streamer but her charm can’t save another bland addition to their pile of festive fare
Holy see: three of Pope Leo’s favourite films are divine. The fourth is hard to forgive
Praise be for The Sound of Music, Ordinary People and It’s a Wonderful Life! But the sinfully twee and queasy Life is Beautiful must be renounced
We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir by Anthony Hopkins review – a legend with a temper
The Oscar-winning actor’s autobiography combines vulnerability with bloody-mindedness and belligerence
Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos review – riotous life story of hardcore punk godhead
It could be more probing, but this wild documentary about the Cro-Mags founder is an eye-opening account of a life on the edge
Australian government could explore using AI for cabinet submissions despite security concerns
Finance minister Katy Gallagher says the public service is building its own artificial intelligence program and spruiks productivity benefits
Tech companies and UK child safety agencies to test AI tools’ ability to create abuse images
New law will allow technology to be examined and ensure tools have safeguards to stop creation of material
‘The age of toys is over’: first Toy Story 5 teaser trailer introduces a new tech foe
Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack are joined by Past Lives star Greta Lee in Disney’s highly anticipated sequel
The Running Man review – Glen Powell sprints through fun update of Stephen King future-shock sci-fi satire
Full-tilt chase sequences, a punk aesthetic and a sugar-rush soundtrack, means there is plenty of enjoyment to be had as Edgar Wright goes back to King’s original 1982 novel
Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine sign voice deal with AI company
The voices of the Oscar-winning actors can now be used to create AI-generated versions in a new deal with ElevenLabs
John Tymukas obituary
Other lives: Structural engineer who trained in Australia and worked on big infrastructure projects across London
ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
China removes two popular gay dating apps from Apple and Android stores
Withdrawal of Blued and Finka raises fears of further crackdowns on LGBT rights amid growing restrictions
SoftBank sells stake in Nvidia for $5.8bn as it doubles down on OpenAI bets
Shares in chipmaker Nvidia fall after announcement by Japanese investor, with other tech shares also slipping
‘A Ukrainian witch kicks the crap out of Russian soldiers’: the new wave of horror films taking on Putin’s army
Homegrown, female-driven scary movies in which witches and zombies lay waste to invading troops are proving popular in Ukraine. But why seek out horror on screen if you have so much of it in real life?
No-toe area: why a barefoot living group has banned pictures of feet
The UK’s biggest barefoot Facebook group has prohibited closeups after being targeted by foot fetishists