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Father of the Cyborgs review – the Indiana Jones of neuroscience

This film exploring the ideas of Dr Phil Kennedy, who had an electrode implanted in his brain, throws up interesting prospects for the human future

‘Call It’: app takes aim at sexual harassment in the film industry

Exclusive: UK producer Kate Wilson hopes it will force film executives ‘to take their head out of the sand’

How long can James Bond resist the call of a TV spin-off?

Experts say it would make sense to expand 007’s appeal into fresh media but Barbara Broccoli resists call

Beeban Kidron v Silicon Valley: one woman’s fight to protect children online

The film-maker and life peer has been warning of the digital dangers facing young people since 2012. Now, with her Children’s Code, people – and big tech companies - are starting to listen

Scientists identify key conditions to set up a creative ‘hot streak’

Researchers use AI to reveal runs of artistic success are commonly preceded by an experimental phase

Streaming demand for UK shows will create 30,000 film and TV jobs

Amid a shortage of crew, UK producers are investing billions in training and bringing in more diversity

Free Blockbuster: VHS tapes are back! But are they really worth the bother?

Nostalgia for the 80s has led to the revival of video cassettes – with fans setting up mini-libraries on street corners

Override review – TV robot goes rogue in Stepford Wives meets Truman Show sci-fi

Jess Impiazzi stars as a TV show android who has a different husband each day but gets hacked in this scattershot drama

Demonic review – Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi horror is pure pulp

The director’s third film – in which a daughter enters the virtual mind of her serial killer mother – is so-so compared to his earlier efforts

I’m Your Man review – Dan Stevens is the perfect date in android romance

Near-future tale of a woman who accepts a male ‘companion’ robot played by Stevens is laboriously told and not really funny enough

Free Guy review – Ryan Reynolds bounces through fun videogame existential crisis

A non-player character evolves into a sentient AI in a cheerfully silly riff on The Truman Show, with Taika Waititi and Jodie Comer

‘Gonna be a trainwreck’: can an Asian diaspora Facebook group be good TV?

Subtle Asian Traits series faces the challenge of adapting an internet phenomenon and questions of cultural representation

The Story of Film: A New Generation review – invigorating study of 21st century cinema

Critic and film-maker Mark Cousins offers a new instalment in his monumental Story of Film series, examining what digital technology has brought to the table

Sweat review – the loneliness of the social media influencer

Magnus von Horn’s contrived Polish drama about a fitness guru promises more in shock and character than it delivers

George RR Martin, console-less games and a Final Fantasy fail: the biggest news from E3 2021

This year’s online-only E3 video game expo was hardly the usual explosion of blockbuster games, but there were still some standout stories

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