Michael Adex: the entrepreneur aiming to inspire black-founded tech startups
Manchester-raised entertainment mogul is ambassador for scheme helping businesses in creative industries succeed
‘It’s full of things that didn’t happen – but it feels right!’ Inside the making of Bob Dylan film A Complete Unknown
Starring an Oscar-tipped Timothée Chalamet, James Mangold’s biopic retells Dylan’s electric early career, but it resonates with today’s toxic fame and politics. The creative team explain their process – and what Dylan makes of it
Becoming Madonna review – a megastar’s extraordinary ascent to pop royalty
The singer’s journey to the top is retold through archive clips and audio, efficiently albeit perhaps too straightforwardly
Older music has been getting a second life on TikTok, data shows
Despite newer artists having viral moments, app users also enjoyed old school acts including Bronski Beat and Sade
Better Man review – Robbie Williams becomes CGI chimp in surreal biopic
A candid look at the toxic force of envy that drove his musical career but turned a talented musician into a deeply unhappy man. But why the CGI?
Wednesday briefing: Celebrity lookalike contests, brat everything and 36 more things to leave behind in 2024
In today’s newsletter: Laddy Instagram food accounts? Estate agent video tours? Glicked? Farewell, 2024, and thanks for nothing
Jack Bond, cult British director and Pet Shop Boys collaborator, dies aged 87
Bond worked on avant garde films with Jane Arden in the 1960s and 70s and went on to work with 80s pop stars from Neil Tennant to Adam Ant
Alfa Anderson obituary
American singer best known as a vocalist with the 1970s disco group Chic whose hits included Le Freak
From Moo Deng to Me Espresso: it’s the 2024 bumper pop culture quiz of the year
Do you know your hot rodent boyfriends, which celebrity is selling feet pics on OnlyFans and who fell off a stage this year? Then this is the quiz for you
Ramones family row puts the skids on US punk pioneers’ biopic
Removal of director from band’s parent company threatens to derail Netflix adaptation of divisive memoir
From Mufasa to Gavin and Stacey: a complete guide to the week’s entertainment in the UK
A Lion King prequel and a sitcom swansong feature in a festive week of wonders
Del Boy did it! Or did he … ? Test your knowledge with our bumper Christmas culture quiz
Do you know your Only Fools from your Dibleys? Are you the No 1 on Christmas No 1s? Prove it with these fiendish festive puzzles
Amazon push may help Tom Grennan beat Wham! to UK Christmas No 1
Grennan’s It Can’t Be Christmas is one of many Amazon-exclusive singles in recent festive chart races
The Long Wave: Christmas celebrations across the diaspora
From Nigeria to Trinidad, ’tis the season when our writers share stories of their favourite festive traditions. Plus, how a diaspora influx has led to soaring prices in Ghana
‘Without a voice, she had no self’: who was the real Maria Callas?
A new Oscar-tipped Netflix film sheds light on the later years of the opera legend, played by Angelina Jolie, and the problems she faced