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Paul McCartney says change in law over AI could ‘rip off’ artists

Former Beatles member says government should protect creative workers as consultation on copyright continues

From The Brutalist to FKA twigs: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment in the UK

Brady Corbet’s Oscar-tipped period drama mingles war and architecture, while the art-popster aims for sensual wellness with her new album

Oscars groupthink pushes Emilia Pérez, the weakest nominee, to a record-breaking lead

The Brutalist is the next most favoured choice, with its mesmeric drama, currently neck-and-neck with the sugary charm of Wicked

‘The hair, the voice, the casual cruelty – they nailed it!’ Bob Dylan experts rate A Complete Unknown

Are the guitars right? Is Joan Baez sidelined? Who is this Sylvie Russo? And why is it an American shouting ‘Judas’? A Dylan tribute singer, two biographers, a superfan and more weigh in

A Complete Unknown review – Timothée Chalamet radiates charisma in evocative Dylan biopic

James Mangold’s handsome portrait of the enigmatic singer’s stratospheric early career boasts a barnstorming lead performance yet often slips into heavy-handedness

‘A lot of chaos, quickly’: panic grips US music industry as ‘kingmaker’ TikTok faces ban

Labels and artists forced to rethink marketing strategies as viral hit-making app faces possible US shutdown on Sunday

A Complete Unknown to The Night Agent: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment in the UK

Timothée Chalamet is Bob Dylan in the much-hyped biopic, and Netflix’s smash thriller returns for another season of moreish political skulduggery

The Guardian view on musical tastes: beware the algorithm comfort zone

Editorial: Human creativity is more powerful than any machine but it still needs analogue nurturing in the digital age

TikToking on heaven’s door: Bob Dylan joins social media app as US ban looms

Songwriter, 83, signs up to TikTok with platform facing Sunday deadline to sell US operation

How have the California wildfires affected Hollywood?

The ongoing devastation has impacted this year’s awards season, raising questions over the Oscars and Grammys

‘Music is a magic’:​ how David Lynch used song and sound to transcend reality

He found global fame as a film-maker, but Lynch’s passion for music was life-long and resulted in work every bit as surreal as his movies

Billy Bob Thornton: ‘I didn’t want Johnny Cash to catch me looking in his fridge in my underpants’

The actor and musician answers your questions on his time as a roadie, being intimidated by rich people and falling off a horse for Steven Seagal

‘I hate this movie, and I haven’t even seen it’ – Americans won’t let a chimp Robbie Williams entertain them

Better Man is a genuinely good movie but it’s bombing – and now his song has been disqualified from the Oscars too

‘I’m literally Joan Baez right now’: gen Z women relate to Bob Dylan’s toxic situationship

The film A Complete Unknown has sparked interest in the folk singers’ doomed romance, and with it the realization that a similar dynamic is ‘happening to girls everywhere’

Behind the Candelabra – the Liberace biopic as sordid as its subject

Steven Soderbergh’s TV film honours the master pianist in the only appropriate way: with lurid spectacle

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