From Jurassic World Rebirth to Kae Tempest: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

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Jurassic World RebirthOut now Forget Chris Pratt and the friendly velociraptors: this reboot of the dinofranchise returns to the premise that the beasties with the big sharp teeth are not to be trusted – and this time around we’ve got some mutant dinosaurs in the mix,Human stars include Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey,The ShroudsOut now The master of body horror is back – and a new David Cronenberg film is always cause for celebration,Now in his 80s, the Canadian auteur can always be relied upon to probe the deeper and darker parts of the human psyche, and his latest exploration of grief and dystopian technology, starring Vincent Cassel, is no exception,Jane Austen 250The Ultimate Picture Palace, Oxford; 6 July to 20 August It is 250 years since the birth of one of the greatest comic novelists of all time.

This season celebrates Austen’s big-screen outings and includes Love & Friendship, Pride & Prejudice (2005), Sense & Sensibility (1995) and – yes! – the spectacular Emma riff Clueless (1995).Hot MilkOut now The Booker-shortlisted novel is adapted for the big screen by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, with Fiona Shaw and Emma Mackey playing a mother and daughter who travel to a Spanish clinic hoping for a cure for the mother’s paralysis.Vicky Krieps also stars.Catherine BrayTRNSMTGlasgow Green, 11 to 13 July It makes sense that this Glasgow three-day party is sponsored by an energy drink; you’ll need something to see you through the whiplash of its lineup.Rapper 50 Cent headlines on Friday, not long after Confidence Man, then Biffy Clyro helm the following day and Jade features on Sunday.

Michael CraggSounds of the CityCastleford Bowl, Manchester, 9 July to 12 July This annual city festival continues with grizzled US rock duo the Black Keys (9 Julynesday), followed by enduring British indie party-starters Bloc Party (10 Julysday) and returning hip-hop pair Rizzle Kicks on 11 July.Bingo Bango hitmakers Basement Jaxx close the party on 12 July.MCBerlioz: Te DeumGloucester Cathedral, todayThe first major event of the Cheltenham music festival, 80 years old this year, takes place not in the spa town, but nine miles away.Gloucester Cathedral will be a suitably majestic venue for Berlioz’s great setting of the Latin hymn of praise, in which Adrian Partington will be conducting the British Sinfonietta.Andrew ClementsLove Supreme festivalGlynde Place, East Sussex, today4 & 5 July Now in its 12th year, the outdoor jazz festival continues to span many variations on contemporary jazz, funk, soul and electronica.

Highlights include Jacob Collier’s only UK performance this year, and jazz stars Branford Marsalis, Lakecia Benjamin, Chucho Valdés, Avishai Cohen and many more,John FordhamEmily Kam KngwarrayTate Modern, 10 July to 11 January This bold painter brought ancient traditions and memories to the forefront of modern art,Look at Kngwarray’s paintings – their fierce colours, pulsing with dots and trackways – through a lens of modernism and they resemble abstract art, especially Jackson Pollock,But each mark relates to the ancestral history of the Dreamtime,Lindsey MendickKenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, 9 July to 31 October Queen Elizabeth I visited Kenilworth Castle 450 years ago for a lavish series of entertainments.

Mendick recreates these in its great hall with her mischievous mixture of ceramics and installation art, featuring women from classical mythology alongside Anne Boleyn, mother of Elizabeth I.They warn the great Tudor queen of coming dangers.WatteauBritish Museum, to 14 September The sensual yet ethereal art of Antoine Watteau creates a unique, imaginative world where sad clowns gaze at you wistfully and lovers picnic in softly depicted woodlands.It is a poetic fiction based on observation of reality.This exhibition of Watteau’s drawings takes you to the heart of his genius.

ResistanceNational Galleries of Scotland: Modern Two, Edinburgh, to 4 January Steve McQueen’s intense and sharp eye shapes this survey of a century of protest.Photographs of rallies, marches and other collective acts from the era of the suffragettes to the Iraq war reveal nuance and pathos, with many powerful photographers including John Deakin, Fay Godwin and Humphrey Spender bearing witness.Jonathan JonesBebe CaveSoho theatre, London, 10sday to 12 July The out-of-work actor to character comedian pipeline can be a busy one, but Cave turns Plan B into brilliance with her pastiches of onscreen heroines: her exceptional Instagram satire of period drama protagonists, and her latest full-length show, The Screen Test, in which she plays Betsy Bitterly, an aspiring starlet in Hollywood’s golden age.Rachel AroestiHope Hunt and the Ascension into LazarusThe Mount Without, Bristol, 9 & 10 July A brilliant solo by Belfast choreographer Oona Doherty.She used to perform it herself; now she trains up other dancers in the work’s particular, transformational physicality, embodying the oft-maligned character of the working-class male, veering between overconfident swagger and tightly wound tension.

A truly original piece of dance.Lyndsey WinshipTill the Stars Come DownTheatre Royal Haymarket, London, to 27 September Beth Steel’s meticulously observed and brilliantly funny new play is set in the East Midlands on the eve of a family wedding.What does the future hold for three sisters – and one exceptionally funny aunt – still so tightly bound to their home town’s history? Miriam GillinsonBig Big SkyNew Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme, to 24 July Tom Wells’s plays are always ones to savour; full of heart and sumptuous characters.His latest is set on the North Sea coastline, where the locals are shutting up shop for the winter – before one final visitor changes everything.MGSign up to Inside SaturdayThe only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine.

Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend.after newsletter promotionDexter: ResurrectionParamount+, 11 JulyLast time we saw Michael C Hall’s vigilante murderer, he seemed like a goner – but this sequel reveals he actually survived the gunshot delivered by his son.Now recovered, Dexter’s hunt for his child is interrupted when he is recruited by a strange billionaire (Peter Dinklage) who is attempting to arrange a serial killer symposium.Too MuchNetflix, 10 July Once upon a time, Lena Dunham met a musician in London – now the Girls creator has refashioned her real-life love story into a very promising romcom.The wildly funny Megan Stalter (Hacks) plays Jessica, a New Yorker who falls for singer-songwriter Felix (The White Lotus’s Will Sharpe).

Richard E Grant and Emily Ratajkowski co-star,PoisonedChannel 4, 9 July, 9pm In 2021, 22-year-old Tom Parfett died after consuming poison he’d bought online,Tipped off by Tom’s bereaved father, Times journalist James Beal traced the substance to a Canadian chef – and discovered many more victims around the globe,This documentary recounts his investigation while grappling with the disturbing online suicide industry,The Trouble With Mr DoodleChannel 4, 9 July, 10pm Co-directed by Jaimie D’Cruz (Exit Through the Gift Shop), this film traces Sam Cox’s staggering rise from childhood drawing obsessive to one of Britain’s most lucrative artists – including the delusions and psychotic break he experienced while trying to doodle over the entirety of his Kent mansion.

RATony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 Out 11 July; PC, PS4/5, Xbox; Switch 1/2 Head back to the skatepark (above) with Activision’s second collection of classic Tony Hawk titles from the early 2000s.All the gnarly tricks and thrash metal music you remember, plus a smattering of new skaters and arenas to make it extra radical.Missile Command Delta Out July 8; PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox Atari’s revered airspace defence game returns, but this time as an intriguing turn-based strategy title, where you have to carefully manage your anti-missile arsenal while exploring the bunker you’re mysteriously trapped in.An unexpectedly timely cold war thriller.Keith StuartNilüfer Yanya – Dancing Shoes EP Out now Less than a year after her third album, the excellent My Method Actor, Nilüfer Yanya teases her next chapter via this four-track EP.

Over a lo-fi drum machine and eerie guitar figures Cold Heart floats about like In Rainbows-era Radiohead, while Where to Look’s atmospherics are eventually punctured by sonic implosion.Kesha – Period Out now After a protracted departure from her former label, Kesha unleashes her first album as an independent artist.Ricocheting between jacked-up pop, country EDM and, on the bonkers lead single Joyride, a hyperpop version of polka, Period feels like both a return to early Kesha and a brand new start.Double Virgo – Shakedown Out now Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton, AKA two-thirds of London art-pop curios Bar Italia, return to their side-project for Shakedown, the duo’s third album.While not a million miles away from the mothership in terms of sound (both share a beguiling brittleness), songs such as Bemused have a stranger melodic sensibility.

Kae Tempest – Self Titled Out now South London’s literary polymath – recording artist slots alongside spoken-word performer, poet, novelist and playwright – returns with the Fraser T Smith-produced Self Titled, which also features Neil Tennant, Young Fathers and Tawiah,Featuring Tempest’s poetic flow, the powerful Know Yourself is a dialogue with the past,MCThe Killing CallPodcast In 2022, promising Punjabi rapper Sidhu Moose Wala was murdered,Gangster Goldy Brar claimed responsibility but three years on, no one has been convicted and Brar is still on the run,This incisive five-part series (above) investigates.

Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s LiteratureOnline The University of Florida’s Baldwin Library holds an extensive archive of charming children’s books from the 18th century onwards.Browse scans of everything from a collection of mysterious “Elfin Rhymes” to an illustrated 1871 Bible.Jaws @ 50 Disney+, 11 July Celebrating a remarkable half-century since the release of the blockbuster that has led to shark phobias around the world, this film charts the chaos of its production, as well as a surprising legacy of shark conservation.Ammar Kalia
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People in the US: are you delaying major life decisions under Trump’s presidency?

As Donald Trump approaches six months in office as president, his administration’s agenda has shaken every corner of US life.According to research from Harris Poll, Americans are reconsidering major life events including marriage, having children and buying a home amid economic anxiety under the Trump administration.Six in 10 Americans said the economy had affected at least one of their major life goals, citing either lack of affordability or anxiety around the current economy.We want to hear from you. Have you been delaying major life decisions amid economic and political anxieties? When did things begin to feel destabilized? What effect in particular has delaying life decisions had on your household?You can tell us if you are delaying any major life decisions and your reasons why by filling in the form below

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Thames Water refuses to claw back bonuses paid using £3bn emergency loan

Thames Water paid almost £2.5m to senior managers from an emergency loan that was meant to be used to keep the failing utilities company afloat – and has refused to claw back the payments, newly released documents reveal.The struggling water supplier paid bonuses totalling £2.46m to 21 managers on 30 April.The managers are due to receive the same amount again in December, and a further £10

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Sony WH-1000XM6 review: raising the bar for noise-cancelling headphones

Sony’s latest top-of-the-range Bluetooth headphones seek to reclaim the throne for the best noise cancellers money can buy with changes inside and out.The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.The Sony 1000X series has long featured some of the best noise cancelling you can buy and has been locked in a battle with rival Bose for the top spot

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Futurist Adam Dorr on how robots will take our jobs: ‘We don’t have long to get ready – it’s going to be tumultuous’

If Adam Dorr is correct, robots and artificial intelligence will dominate the global economy within a generation and put virtually the entire human race out of a job. The social scientist doubles up as a futurist and has a stark vision of the scale, speed and unstoppability of a technological transformation that he says will replace virtually all human labour within 20 years.The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more

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Djokovic survives Cobolli onslaught to reach record 14th Wimbledon semi-final

The siren call of a record 25th grand slam title grows ever louder for Novak Djokovic. But he was given a scare by the punchy young Italian Flavio Cobolli, as well as a nasty fall on match point, before coming through a pulsating quarter-final to win 6-7 (8), 6-2, 7-5, 6-4.Djokovic’s reward is a record 14th Wimbledon semi-final, one ahead of Roger Federer, and a meeting with the world No 1, Jannik Sinner, on Friday. It is a battle he is clearly relishing.“It motivates me to see how much I can still keep going with these guys toe to toe,” he said

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Wimbledon 2025 quarter-finals: Djokovic defeats Cobolli to set up Sinner clash – as it happened

Before that we’ve got a tremendous Thursday in store, with Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek bidding to set up a first grand slam final against each other – what a prospect that is – as they face the underdogs Amanda Anisimova and Belinda Bencic respectively. Do join Daniel for coverage of those matches, and I’ll be back on Friday. Thanks for your company, as always. Bye!The men’s semi-finals are set. And Friday can’t come soon enough:Jannik Sinner v Novak Djokovic Carlos Alcaraz v Taylor FritzDjokovic’s numbers are ridiculous