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Hey! You in the stalls! Put that phone away and surrender to the art

As Rosamund Pike found out recently on stage, many people now experience the arts simply as content to be documented for likes and shares, says Guardian arts and culture correspondent Nadia Khomami

Horror’s Hollywood takeover is an exciting moment – but won’t someone think of the squeamish?

The unprecedented success of Backrooms and Obsession has made stars of their creators. For the good of cinema, however, they’d do well to look beyond the genre going forward

From Masters of the Universe to Monteverdi: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

The cartoon favourite and Mattel toy He-Man battles Skeletor on the big screen, and Garsington continues its run of excellent early operas

Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait review – the radiant, uncontainable star she always wanted to be

The actor’s life in pictures, from mousey-haired teen to American icon to her shocking death at 36, beams with the charm that defined a century. But why aren’t we shown more of what lay behind the smile?

Are You Watching? review – unflinching, fury-filled interrogation of the vile side of the web

Teenage girls discuss the horrors they have seen via their phones as Georgie Dettmer’s reckoning with internet culture is brutally realised by director Jess Edwards

Being Towards Death review – Chinese hospital comedy drama uses plucky patients to ask big questions

A debt-laden caregiver attempting suicide is the catalyst for him finding new meaning to life from a ward of terminally ill patients in touching ensemble drama

How Marvel deals with Doctor Doom is make or break for the MCU. No one wants a watered-down Tony Stark

The hooded supervillain is a scientist, a sorcerer, a monarch and a mummy’s boy – Robert Downey Jr’s Doom should be all these things and more, radiating history, magic and the biggest ego

Taylor Swift: I Knew It, I Knew You review – giddy up! Song for Toy Story cowgirl Jessie is Swift’s best in years

Full of handcrafted care and the rootsy soul of her country origins, this gently elated song is a reminder of what fans love about Swift … and the film series

Hoppers to Nomadland: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

The latest Pixar is a gloriously cute eco-tale packed with neat gags, robotic beavers and shark assassins named Diane … plus, Frances McDormand is astonishing in the Oscar-winning drama that is an instant classic

Sex, austerity and mugs of vodka: how the Greek myth Iphigenia became a Welsh-language film sensation

The movie adaptation of Gary Owen’s acclaimed play Iphigenia in Splott, Effi o Blaenau, is released this month. Here, its director and crew explain why they relocated the film to a post-industrial mining town – and refused to make it in English

James Handy, known for roles in Top Gun: Maverick and Jumanji, dies at home after stabbing

Son of actor’s girlfriend arrested after 81-year-old found unconscious in his front yard in Tarzana, Los Angeles

Office Romance review – Jennifer Lopez’s romcom return is too much like hard work

Star makes for reliably charming lead in Netflix’s basic throwback, but co-star Brett Goldstein, and his co-written script, lack in fizz

Scary Movie review – spoof comedy returns but maybe it should have stayed in the 2000s

Successful jokes are thin on the ground in the musty sixth installment of the once-popular parody franchise, taking aim at everything from Scream to Sinners

Mark Williams: ‘I browsed tractor magazines with Robbie Coltrane on the set of Harry Potter’

The star of The Fast Show and Father Brown – as well as the original Arthur Weasley – on friendly death eaters, famous Brummies and Chinese trains

Boom Box: the story of undercover police who set up a fake music studio in London

New four-part documentary reignites criticism of Operation Peyzac, in which officers posed as music industry figures to gather intelligence

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