From Mean Girls to Masters of the Air: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment Tina Fey brings her high-school clique back – with added songs – and US fighter pilots get the Band of Brothers treatment
From Poor Things to Jekyll & Hyde: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment Emma Stone makes a fantastic freaky Frankenfeminist, while a one-man, dual personality, tour de force hits Edinburgh
From Bong Joon-ho to Van Gogh: Observer critics’ culture highlights for 2024 From Withnail and I on stage to Olivia Rodrigo on tour, Sally Wainwright’s new drama to Blondie, Bruckner and Jez Butterworth, our experts guide you through the treats in store this year
From Priscilla to Bluey: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment Sofia Coppola’s latest focuses on Elvis’s young wife, and the colourfully adorable cartoon sensation hits the stage
Oklahoma 13-year-old believed to be first person ever to beat Tetris Previously only bots and AI had got game to its ‘kill screen’ but Willis Gibson managed to get game to freeze with score 999999
Mickey Mouse’s first 24 hours in the public domain: slasher flicks, horror games and NFTs Steamboat Willie lost US copyright protection on 1 January 2024 – prompting a stream of films, games and parodies that will likely displease Disney
Film, TV and video-game producers to get more generous UK tax relief Industry has said Britain could lose out to other countries, particularly in animation and special effects
From Ferrari to Pulp: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment Michael Mann depicts a make-or-break year for the Italian car manufacturer, while the giants of oddball Britpop see out 2023 in fine style
From The Boy and the Heron to The Nutcracker: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment Studio Ghibli returns with its latest dose of animated wonder, while London boasts two versions of the Christmas classic in all its shimmering glory
James McCaffrey, voice of Max Payne and Alan Wake games, dies at 65 The actor, who also starred in film and television for decades, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer
Let’s hope Epic’s antitrust win over Google is the first of many tech giant losses The jury in the video game developer’s antitrust case over Google’s app store monopoly were under no illusions
The curious case of Epic Games: how the developer beat Google but not Apple The Fortnite maker filed antitrust suits against both tech companies – while one emerged victorious, the other was found at fault on 11 claims
From The Three Musketeers to Cher: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment Dumas’s trio bring more mustachioed swashbucklery to cinemas, and the pop matriarch goes festive with an album chock-full of Christmas cheer
Video games’ biggest trade show has been permanently canceled Covid dealt the fatal blow to E3, known as ‘video game Christmas’, where gaming companies launched their splashiest titles
From Wonka to Nicki Minaj: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment Timothée Chalomet stars in the eccentric chocolatier’s origin story, while the rapper finally releases the sequel album to her 2010 debut