From Deadpool & Wolverine to Ice Spice: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Going out: Cinema

Deadpool & Wolverine
Out now
Way back when, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) was the irreverent, rebellious one, in contrast to the more earnest X-Men such as Professor Xavier. Now he’s paired with Deadpool, the guy who represents the zenith (or nadir) of snook-cocking superhero snark. Comic-book quippery with Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman.

About Dry Grasses
Out now
Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan is perhaps the leading purveyor of chatty Chekhovian drama currently working. For his ninth feature, he’s sticking to that signature approach, working from co-writer and art teacher Akin Aksu’s diary of three years spent in a remote part of Anatolia.

I Saw the TV Glow
Out now
In this hip drama from Jane Schoenbrun (We’re All Going to the World’s Fair), two teen misfits explore their identity through a shared love of a Buffy-esque TV series called The Pink Opaque. Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine star.

The Echo
Out now
Poetic documentary film-maker Tatiana Huezo portrays the emotional labour of women in three families in an intergenerational study of the ups and downs of life in a sparsely populated farming region in northern Mexico. Winner of the documentary award at the Berlin film festival. Catherine Bray

Going out: Gigs

Cloud X festival
Crystal Palace Park, London, 2 August
Championing R&B, soul and sonic experimentalists, Cloud X returns to south London with another intriguing lineup. Highlights include London-based soul-barer Berwyn, genre-agnostic Swiss star Priya Ragu and UK rap titan Ghetts. Keep an eye out, too, for singer and recent star of the hit TV show Queenie, Bellah. Michael Cragg

Wilderness festival
Cornbury Park, near Oxford, Thursday to 4 August
Billed as a four-day party of “escapism, high jinks and wholesome hedonism”, Wilderness offers up a plethora of comedy, art and wellbeing … oh and some music. Artists having a singsong in a big park include the returning Michael Kiwanuka, festival favourite Jessie Ware and hip-hop greats De La Soul. MC

Curtis Stigers
Birmingham Town Hall, 2 August
To be a modern crooner devoid of that timeworn style’s cliches is some achievement, but the American singer and jazz saxophonist Curtis Stigers does it effortlessly. He brings muscle and realism to classic and original songs – such as his model Frank Sinatra, through a profound understanding of jazz dynamics and timing. John Fordham

Stabat Mater
Worcester Cathedral, 27 July
The centenary of the death of Charles Villiers Stanford has been one of this year’s less marked musical anniversaries. But the opening orchestral concert of the 2024 Three Choirs festival marks it with a performance of Stanford’s large-scale Stabat Mater. It is conducted by Samuel Hudson, and the concert also includes The Hymn of Jesus by another of this year’s anniversarians, Gustav Holst. Andrew Clements

Going out: Art

Peter Kennard
Whitechapel Gallery, London, to 19 January
Before contemporary art went mainstream, it was often in protest art that you’d see daring uses of dada collage. Peter Kennard is the giant of that. His 1980s montages in support of CND and against Margaret Thatcher were made for the political frontline. Today they have a grainy nostalgia.

Andy Hollingworth
Showtown, Blackpool, to 23 February
What better choice for the first exhibition at this new Blackpool “museum of fun and entertainment” than a photographer who specialises in portraits of comedians? A series of snaps of Rowan Atkinson making an impressive range of Mr Bean-ish faces and a black-and-white study of Victoria Wood are among the highlights.

Goshka Macuga
Mithraeum Bloomberg Space, London, to 18 January
This one-off London space juxtaposes archaeology with contemporary art as you look at installations above the ruins of the Roman temple of Mithras. It’s not always a good fit, but Macuga responds directly to the remains by creating an immersive cave-like experience that explores London’s past from Mithras to the blitz.

Bees
World Museum, Liverpool, to 5 May
Shrink yourself down to the size of a bee to enter an actual hive and experience the world from a bee’s point of view. OK, not quite. But this exhibition does promise to immerse you in 120m years of bee existence with soundscapes, projected images and opportunities to interact. Jonathan Jones

Going out: Stage

Emma Sidi
Pleasance Courtyard Upstairs, Edinburgh, 31 July to 25 August
Westminster’s decade of chaos has turned political comedy into a precarious enterprise: satire now requires daily rewrites. Yet Sidi’s new show – in which the reliably excellent Starstruck star imagines the inner life of Partygate inquiry leader Sue Gray – is inventive enough to withstand accusations of rehashing old news. Rachel Aroesti

Pericles
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, to 21 September
One of Shakespeare’s lesser-staged romances, Pericles is rich with tricks and miracles, as grief and rebirth circle each other. Alfred Enoch leads in an new production, an RSC debut from the company’s for new co-artistic director Tamara Harvey. Kate Wyver

Fiddler on the Roof
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, London, to 21 September
If you enjoyed the recent star-spangled Cabaret, this new production features many of the same creatives. Jordan Fein directs a classic of love and revolution, with design by the brilliant Tom Scutt. KW

David Hoyle and the Glitterbomb Dancers
The Old Woollen, Leeds, 2 August
Avant-garde performance artist and queer cabaret veteran Hoyle is joined for a one-off show by the exuberant Glitterbomb Dancers, a Leeds-based LGBTQ+ dance troupe. Expect spandex, sexy dancing, art and activism. Lyndsey Winship