Mountainhead to Nintendo Switch 2: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Going out: Cinema

The Ballad of Wallis Island
Out now
Comedy drama co-starring and co-written by comedians Tim Key and Tom Basden. Key plays a lottery winner with some big ideas about what to do with his winnings: namely, pay his favourite musical act to reunite. Hey, it’s more interesting than buying a fancy car. Basden and Carey Mulligan play the folk duo McGwyer Mortimer.

The Salt Path
Out now
Drama based on the true story of a 630-mile pilgrimage along the coast in Cornwall, Devon and Dorset. Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs star as a married couple displaced from their home, who set out on a shoe leather-testing journey with not much more than a tent and a sense of determination.

Karate Kid: Legends
Out now
Starring Jackie Chan as Mr Han and Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso, this family friendly martial arts blockbuster mashes together the worlds of the 2010 Karate Kid reboot with the Cobra Kai TV series, focusing on the journey of the newly created character Li Fong (relative newcomer Ben Wang).

Along Came Love
Out now
Set in the post-second world war period, Katell Quillévéré’s award-winning drama sees a French waitress (Anaïs Demoustier) whose young son was conceived with a German soldier building a new relationship with a bisexual intellectual (Vincent Lacoste). Catherine Bray

Going out: Gigs

Lido festival
Victoria Park, London, 6 to 14 June
The team behind east London festival All Points East launch this new, erm, east London festival. Massive Attack kick things off on Friday, heading up a lineup that also includes Air and Tirzah. Charli xcx headlines on 14 June. Michael Cragg

Nelly
4 to 11 June; tour starts Birmingham
As part of his Where the Party At world tour to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his Country Grammar album, rapper and Pimp Juice hitmaker Nelly arrives in UK arenas. Eve, Fabolous and Nelly’s own hip-hop group St Lunatics offer up ample support. MC

Tom Ollendorff Quartet
Vortex Jazz Club, London, 6 & 7 June
Young UK musician Tom Ollendorff often reclaims jazz guitar-playing’s classic past, but he also understands its fast-changing present. For these two nights, he’s joined by US piano star Aaron Parks and A-list locals Conor Chaplin (bass) and James Maddren (drums). John Fordham

Simon Boccanegra
Grange Park Opera, West Horsley Place, Surrey, 4 June to 11 July
Verdi’s dark masterpiece is the first of four productions in Grange Park Opera’s summer season. David Pountney’s staging, with designs by Ralph Koltai, has been revived by Robin Tebbutt, with Simon Keenlyside taking the title role of the Genoese Doge. Gianluca Marciano conducts. Andrew Clements

Going out: Art

Sussex Modernism
Towner Eastbourne, to 28 September
You probably didn’t know Sussex was the heart of modernism. Or perhaps you did, given it includes the country home of the Bloomsbury group. This exhibition roams over green hills of 20th- and 21st-century cultural history, featuring Jeff Keen, Ivon Hitchens, Jacob Epstein and more.

Rachel Whiteread
Goodwood Art Foundation, Chichester, 31 May to 2 November
One of Britain’s greatest modern artists inaugurates a new sculpture park with her perturbing vision. Whiteread stands apart and alone in today’s art. She set out in early works such as Ghost and House to make monuments to the traces of everyday lives. She’s still doing this in surreal, marvellous ways.

Joseph Wright of Derby
Derby Museum and Art Gallery, to 7 September
The spirit of the Enlightenment glows in Joseph Wright of Derby’s visions of science, from fiery paintings of Vesuvius erupting to Derby Museum’s masterpiece the candlelit Orrery. But this exhibition looks at the drawing skills behind his luminous paintings, revealing how he sketched and designed on paper all his life.

V&A East Storehouse
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, from 31 May
A new home for the V&A collections of, well, just about everything, this state-of-the-art space is open to visit, with displays of objects, interiors and art you can explore. This may be the opening of the year: a 21st-century cabinet of curiosities to feed imaginations. Jonathan Jones

Going out: Stage

Stereophonic
Duke of York’s theatre, London, to 20 September
A cast of actor-musicians mimic the process of a recording in all its agony and ecstasy, in David Adjmi’s much hyped Tony award winner. It’s 1976 and a young rock band teeter on the brink of megastardom. Will their new album make them or break them? Miriam Gillinson

Benji Reid: Find Your Eyes
Sadler’s Wells East, London, 4 to 7 June
A five-star show arriving from 2023’s Manchester festival. Benji Reid was a key figure in early UK hip-hop theatre, who became a photographer, and here combines the two in what he calls choreo-photilism. The stage becomes a studio for live photography, projected large, and a space for his life story, movingly told. Lyndsey Winship

Whatever Happened to Phoebe Salt
New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme, 31 May to 21 June
Arthur Berry’s final play is being staged for the first time to celebrate the local writer’s centenary year. Set in Stoke-on-Trent, it’s about a woman who works at a meat market and yearns for escape – will a surprise TV appearance offer her a way out? MG

A Lovely Weekend
Fairfield Social Club, Manchester, 6 to 8 June
Co-founded by three-time Edinburgh award nominee Chris Cantrill (who’s also on the bill), this tiny festival boasts some of the most compelling characters in UK comedy, including the ludicrously deadpan Mark Silcox, the boundary-pushing Jordan Brookes, and John Kearns, who shrouds transcendence in joke-shop visuals. Rachel Aroesti