Billy Joel condemns upcoming biopic about his early life as ‘legally and professionally misguided’
Singer-songwriter has ‘not authorised or supported’ Billy & Me, which will be based on the story of his first manager Irwin Mazur
Sheep in the Box review – a bland, baffling tale of AI children from Hirokazu Kore-eda
There’s nothing wrong with film-makers leaving their comfort zone but the Japanese director’s latest effort just doesn’t work
Google announces glasses are back and search is getting an AI makeover
At annual I/O conference, company debuts a product for everyday consumers to create autonomous AI agents
‘Obvious markers of AI’: doubts raised over winner of short story prize
Granta publisher says ‘perhaps we never will know’ true authorship of work that won Commonwealth prize
Bitter Christmas review – grief, loss and artistic betrayal in Almodóvar’s film within a film
Cannes film festival: Spaniard’s latest life-v-art auto-metafiction feels slightly muddled as he directs a director directing a director
Nicolas Winding Refn breaks down at Cannes recalling near-death due to ‘leaking heart’
The director of Drive, unveiling new thriller My Private Hell, told journalists he ‘died for 25 minutes’ in 2023
Meta is rapidly reorganizing its workers’ jobs around AI: ‘Transfers aren’t optional’
Some employees will be moved to new teams focused on AI agents and cloud infrastructure
Influencer fees: why the National Trust is making TikTokers cough up
The charity is in the headlines yet again, this time for asking people filming paid-for content on its sites to pay a fee. Is it all just a storm in a tea room?
What are Samsung union workers demanding and how might a strike play out?
Nearly 48,000 workers are threatening an 18-day walkout amid fears of global memory chip shortages
Minotaur review – Andrei Zvyagintsev’s scorching noir intrigue amid the Ukraine war
Cannes film festival: The great Russian director’s first film for almost a decade is tremendous drama following the ill-deeds of a mini-oligarch who comes up with a toxic new way to feed Russia’s war machine
Her Private Hell review – Nicolas Winding Refn’s shapeshifting fantasia is a dreamy swirl of strangeness
Cannes film festival: Refn’s film eludes definition as it moves through time and space, from doomy reality to strange dream worlds populated by quasi-Lynchian characters
Reality Bites is a gen X classic where the only real enemies are capitalism and inauthenticity
Ben Stiller’s 90s romcom starring a smouldering Ethan Hawke and a magnetic Winona Ryder is replete with quotable one-liners and a killer soundtrack
Clint Eastwood cannon from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly traced to Spanish museum
Enthusiasts track down weapon used to fell fleeing Eli Wallach amid preparations for 60th anniversary of film’s release
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu review – helmeted hero tangles with hateful Hutts in decent feature outing
The badass bounty hunter and his little green friend take on the Empire and Jabba the Hutt’s family in this solid enough addition to the ever-expanding universe
Matt Brittin has taken the helm of the supertanker BBC, but there are plenty of icebergs in his way
First, the new DG will have to navigate staff cuts, culture wars and a sea of fake news, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson