From Venom: The Last Dance to Generation Z: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Tom Hardy’s superhuman being is back for one last bite, while Ben Wheatley pits the kids against care-home zombies in a new TV series

‘Say hello to my little pen’: 14 things we learned from Al Pacino’s memoir

In the just-published Sonny Boy, the Hollywood legend documents his eventful life with glee and candour. Here are some of the more unexpected revelations

Canary Black review – Kate Beckinsale kicks impeccably chic ass in gender-flipped Taken

Oblivious he’s married to a spy, Beckinsale’s husband is kidnapped – cue the baddies demanding a secret file, some fancy action sequences, lots of gunshots and a nice trenchcoat

Kate Bush: Little Shrew review – this devastating film will make you weep at war’s violence against children

Written, directed and soundtracked by Bush, built up from sketches she drew herself, this four-minute animation is suffused with both love and horror

Paul Mescal reveals he was cast in Gladiator II after 30-minute Zoom call

Normal People and Aftersun actor starring alongside Denzel Washington in sequel to Ridley Scott blockbuster

The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Ideas … is a standalone Gandalf movie on its way?

A film about the wizard and his search for Gollum is coming – and it turns out a second may also be in the offing. Will he battle Balrog, entreat Entwines or just plod about perplexed?

Lee to Music By John Williams: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

The fierce Lee Miller is the role Kate Winslet was born to play, plus Steven Spielberg and more line up to wax lyrical about the most legendary composer in the history of cinema. What a bringer of joy

Don’t Move review – high-concept Netflix survival thriller has its moments

A grieving woman is paralysed by a psychopathic serial killer in a solid Sam Raimi-produced shocker that boasts some genuine suspense

‘Chaos is great. This time it went over the top’: Andrea Arnold and Robbie Ryan on 21 years of film and friendship

The director and cinematographer talk collaboration, health and safety on their new film, Bird – and the perils of DJing at your daughter’s birthday party

Who should play Patrick Bateman in the new American Psycho?

With Luca Guadagnino set to direct a new take on Bret Easton Ellis’s novel, speculation abounds on who should play the vain serial killer

‘I never really learned anything from anybody’: Isabelle Huppert on 50 years in film

The acclaimed French actor answers your questions on Heaven’s Gate, Haneke and hindsight

Share your experience of being a runner for film or TV

We would like to hear from people who have worked – or are working – as runners about what the job is like

‘Maybe I am bizarre to some people …’ The unique, underrated mind of 70s singer Dory Previn

After a painful childhood and marriage, the US singer-songwriter used writing to understand her schizophrenia. A new film explores the wondrous music she then made

Venom: The Last Dance review – messy sequel ends series with a shrug

Tom Hardy’s agreeably silly Marvel franchise wraps things up in a patchy final adventure that needed a tighter, and funnier, script

‘The worse the world gets, the better for this play’: Armando Iannucci on staging Dr Strangelove with Steve Coogan

Stanley Kubrick’s pitch-black comedy about nuclear armageddon was once called ‘sick’. Iannucci explains why – in the age of Trump, Putin and Musk – this madcap story is as relevant as ever