Contents

1 Going out: Cinema

2 Going out: Gigs

3 Going out: Art

4 Going out: Stage

5 Staying in: Streaming

6 Staying in: Games

7 Staying in: Albums

8 Staying in: Brain food

Going out: Cinema

Wildwood

Out now

If Pixar was a chocolate bar, it would be a Mars, while Laika – whose new film Wildwood incorporates themes of war and child abduction – would be something like Green & Blacks. Darker and with more esoteric flavours, this stop-motion animation is not so much for the nursery school crowd, but for discerning pre-teens and adults alike.

Ghosts: The Possession of Button House

Out now

The beloved BBC TV comedy gets a big-screen outing, with Simon Farnaby’s trouserless Tory MP ghost, Jim Howick’s dead scoutmaster, shot by a member of his own troop, Ben Willbond’s closeted second world war officer and the other regular cast members all returning.

Fatherland

Out now

Joint winner of the best director prize at Cannes, Paweł Pawlikowski’s latest is set during the cold war, and sees an actor,…