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Historian Richard J Evans: ‘I’m planning to write a book about pandemics next. I’ve had enough of Nazis’

The author of the definitive account of the Third Reich on revisiting nazism one last time, the ongoing need to discredit Holocaust denial and fact-checking Martin Amis’s novel The Zone of Interest

On my radar: Sue Perkins’s cultural highlights

The broadcaster and standup comedian on her love of Angela Carter, bewitching Budapest, and a pizza restaurant that fuses Indian and Italian cuisine

Kensuke’s Kingdom review – impeccably elegant animation of Michael Morpurgo adventure

Beautifully hand-drawn, with a screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce exploring deep themes, is this adaptation too classy to have wide appeal?

Mark Kermode on… director Hayao Miyazaki, who speaks to the child in all of us

The great Japanese animator, whose 1988 masterpiece My Neighbour Totoro is back in cinemas, embraces the universe yet never shies away from life’s grittier elements

‘It’s foolish to mask your age. Accept it. Present it’: Jeff Goldblum on vanity, mortality and becoming a father in his 60s

After five decades in the business, the fast-talking, finger-jabbing actor is as intense and eccentric as ever – and wondering what comes next

From Kensuke’s Kingdom to Justin Timberlake: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Michael Morpurgo’s children’s adventure gets animated, while the pop R&B megastar rolls into the UK on his summer tour

Trap review – M Night Shyamalan’s concert thriller is a mess

Josh Hartnett plays a serial killer trapped at a pop show in a suspense-free dud that acts as embarrassing promotion for the director’s daughter

Tom Cruise to rappel off Stade de France in Olympics closing ceremony

Actor will drop 42 metres from Paris stadium roof before prerecorded footage shows him bringing the games’ flag to 2028 host LA, via a series of death-defying stunts

Bafta introduces new prize for best children’s and family film

Organisers also announced changes for other awards including a points system for outstanding British film

Tell us: do you bring your own snacks to the cinema?

We’d like to hear from people about whether they bring their own food and drink or prefer to choose from the cinema’s own options

Grab your Ouija board: behind Fear the Spotlight’s 90s-inspired horror

When two horror movie fans took the leap into game development, the last thing they expected was for an actual movie production company to want to get involved

Robert Downey Jr’s MCU return is like trying to bottle lightning twice. Can you hear the Marvel thunder?

The Oscar winner’s surprise casting in Avengers – not as Iron Man but as Doctor Doom – will bring much-needed gravity to the role. But will the MCU acknowledge his past life as Tony Stark?

‘It’s not a theoretical proposition’: the ‘war game’ imagining a coup in the US

A tense new documentary highlights a program using a mock situation room to play out a terrifying fictional scenario putting ‘democracy in jeopardy’

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes to Mission: Impossible – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

The gripping prequel to the original movie plunges into political tribalism, while Tom Cruise’s 1996 blockbuster bristles with meticulously formulated action

Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie review – another enjoyably madcap SpongeBob adventure

An incredibly game Wanda Sykes leans in to the evil inventor trope as the gang follow their favourite scientist squirrel to the Lone Star State in a bid to save their world

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