The Apprentice to The Franchise: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Going out: Cinema

The Wild Robot
Out now
Using a hand-painted aesthetic, this warm-hearted family animation tells the story of a shipwrecked robot who becomes the adoptive mother of an orphaned goose. Lending her dulcet tones to the robot is Lupita Nyong’o, with Heartstopper’s Kit Connor as the goose.

The Apprentice
Out now
Sebastian Stan stars as Donald Trump in this biopic looking at the former (and future?) president’s years as a flashy real estate mogul through the lens of his mentor-mentee relationship with the infamous New York City prosecutor Roy Cohn, played here by Succession’s Jeremy Strong.

Smile 2
Out now
A follow-up to eerie smash-hit Smile was inevitable from both a narrative and financial POV, and here it is. Naomi Scott stars as a pop singer who begins to see creepy smiling faces everywhere, and Kyle Gallner reprises his role as the cop who we last saw getting cursed by the Smile entity at the end of the first film.

Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands
Out now
Following a sold-out world premiere as the closing gala for Edinburgh international film festival this documentary about Scottish girl bands, narrated by TeenCanteen’s Carla J Easton, gets a wide release. It uses archive, talking heads and lost demos to paint a portrait of an underrated music scene. Catherine Bray

Going out: Gigs

The Age of Consent 40
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 19 October
Released in 1984, the debut album by Bronski Beat, The Age of Consent, was a bold political statement at a time of queer repression. Forty years later, queer and trans artists such as Bishi, Planningtorock and Tom Rasmussen pay tribute to its legacy in this one-off show. Michael Cragg

Schoenberg: Reshaping Tradition
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 20 October
The 150th anniversary of Arnold Schoenberg’s birth last month went almost noticed in the UK. But at least the London Sinfonietta is retrospectively marking the occasion with a concert conducted by Jonathan Berman that includes some of his major works – Chamber Symphony No 1, the Serenade and Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte – alongside pieces by Elisabeth Lutyens and Webern. Andrew Clements

Xhosa Cole
1000 Trades, Birmingham, 25 October
Saxophonist Xhosa Cole is the youngest of an illustrious roster of Birmingham-raised reeds-players, running from Andy Hamilton to Soweto Kinch and Shabaka Hutchings, as an eclectic improviser of soulful power. Cole explores the unique legacy of Thelonious Monk at this gig for Black History Month. John Fordham

Lizzy McAlpine
24 to 31 October; tour starts London
After scoring a TikTok hit (and actual UK Top 10 hit) last year with the gentle guitar ballad Ceilings, 25-year-old McAlpine has steadily scuffed up her sound. This year’s Older album, recorded in one or two takes, focused on capturing emotion rather than perfection, a tendency replicated in her shows. MC

Going out: Art

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
Tate St Ives, to 5 January
This Romany artist makes her pictorial collages in her home village of Czarna Góra in Poland. Her portraits, with grey, almost ghostly figures as if they commemorate the lost, are cut from textiles. She works collaboratively with other women in her community and is an educator and campaigner for Romany life.

The World of Tim Burton
Design Museum, London, 25 October to 21 April
Just in time for Halloween, this crowd-pleaser explores the gothic imagination of Tim Burton from scissor-handed innocents to Christmas-wrecking spooks and Frankensteinian pooches. It includes the funny and fantastical director’s paintings, drawings, writings and sketchbooks in a bid to illuminate the obsessive themes and personal images in his films.

Vanessa Bell
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, 19 October to 23 February
The art of Vanessa Bell proves you don’t have to smash anything to be a modernist. Her paintings are domestic, intimate, returning again and again to still life, garden scenes and portraiture. But look again. Bell’s quiet scrutiny of the world is inspired by Cézanne and has a radical truthfulness.

Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst
Serpentine North Gallery, London, to 2 February
Is AI the future of art – or a massively overhyped, empty technology? It may be many years before we know its true contribution to creativity. But Berlin-based artists Herndon and Dryhurst can’t wait that long and present “rituals” for working with AI to bring out the magic of the machine. Jonathan Jones

Going out: Stage

Tarot
Soho theatre, London, 21 to 26 October; touring 6 to 29 November
Nowadays, you can only be a true sketch comedy aficionado if you like leaving the house: the finest examples of the genre rarely make it to TV. That includes Tarot – Ed Easton, Adam Drake and Kath Hughes – who once again prove they are modern masters with eerily brilliant new show Shuffle. Rachel Aroesti

Quiet Songs
Barbican: The Pit, London, Tuesday to 2 November
Finn Beames & Company’s new show follows a bullied queer teenager as their voice breaks. Its musical accompaniment sees the bows of string instruments exchanged for swords. Ruth Negga stars. Kate Wyver

Company Wayne McGregor: Autobiography
York Theatre Royal, 25 & 26 October
Wayne McGregor’s show Autobiography is never the same twice. Built from the choreographer’s own genetic code, it’s a dance piece that’s always morphing, and the latest version lands in York for two nights. His dancers are technically awesome, and tThe soundtrack comes from experimental electronic composer Jlin. Lyndsey Winship

Revealed
Belgrade theatre, Coventry, to 2 November
Following three generations of Black men, Daniel J Carver’s family drama wriggles into the gap between what men feel and what they say. Set in the family’s Caribbean restaurant, each show ends with the audience invited to share a meal together. KW