From Mission: Impossible to Stereolab: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead | Culture

Going out: Cinema

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Out now
The impossible mission of creating a bankable movie franchise lasting almost 30 years out of a 1960s TV show has been well and truly fulfilled, and all that remains is to wrap things up in style, with the last chapter in the epic saga (though director Christopher McQuarrie says the franchise may continue). Tom Cruise returns – naturally – and he’s joined by Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg.

The Phoenician Scheme
Out now
Wes Anderson’s latest, a tale of espionage involving a businessman who appoints his daughter – a nun – as his successor, comes fresh from its Cannes premiere. As usual with Anderson, the cast is A-lister heaven: Benicio Del Toro, Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Richard Ayoade, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson and Benedict Cumberbatch all feature.

When the Light Breaks
Out now
Icelandic writer-director Rúnar Rúnarsson’s tragic romantic drama centres on the events of a single day, when a road tunnel collapses, with devastating effects for a young couple. Bring tissues.

Mongrel
Out now
An exploited migrant worker in Taiwan (Wanlop Rungkumjad) operates as right-hand man to a gangster who runs the local operation of undocumented workers providing care to the elderly or disabled. Award-winning drama from Wei Liang Chiang. Catherine Bray

Going out: Gigs

Babymetal
The O2, London, 30 May
Formed in 2010, when its members were aged 11 to 13, Japan’s enduring rock trio Babymetal fuse heavy metal fury with the explosive choreography of J-pop. Ahead of June’s Metal Forth album, which features Poppy and Tom Morello, the band play a one-off arena show. Michael Cragg

John Legend
27 May to 1 June; tour starts Glasgow
After celebrating his debut album Get Lifted’s 20th anniversary at the end of last year via a deluxe reissue, John Legend continues the party with this celebratory tour. Featuring the soulful classic Ordinary People, it’s still the best showcase for his rich and expressive voice. MC

Wahnfried: The Birth of the Wagner Cult
Longborough, nr Moreton-in-Marsh, 27 May to 14 June
The UK premiere of Avner Dorman’s opera opens the Longborough festival. Beginning with the death of Richard Wagner in 1883, it explores the ways in which his descendants created a myth around him. The production is directed by Polly Graham and Justin Brown conducts. Andrew Clements

Sarah Tandy
Ronnie Scott’s, London, 29 May
Former classical pianist Sarah Tandy has partnered many local jazz stars, including Nubya Garcia and Yussef Dayes. Her fine band, including trumpeter Sheila Maurice Grey and saxophonist Binker Golding, preview her latest release. John Fordham

Going out: Art

Cecil Beaton
Garden Museum, London, to 21 September
The photographer and high society star was also a keen gardener who created foral fetes at his homes in Wiltshire. This exhibition shows how horticulture informed his creative life – from the flower arrangements he conjured for Bright Young Things parties to his floral fashions in My Fair Lady.

Leonardo Drew
South London Gallery, 30 May to 7 September
A spectacular, apocalyptic installation by this American artist whose trademark is to make it look as if there’s been an explosion or natural disaster in the gallery. Drew takes pieces of wood and other materials and smashes, splinters, chars and scatters them until you wonder what the hell happened.

Helen Chadwick
The Hepworth Wakefield, to 27 October
A retrospective of the brilliant British artist who died in 1996. Chadwick pioneered a new kind of art mixing conceptualism with a passion for flesh, earth and the senses. Her art shoves bodily existence in your face. Cuts of meat become sexual and she carves holes in snow by urinating.

Elisabeth Frink
Salisbury Museum, 24 May to 28 September
The bronze sculptures of Elisabeth Frink are deceptive. At first glance she may look like a doggedly dull figurative artist. However, her simplified, intense images of people and animals are, in reality, enflamed by a vision of the primeval essence of humanity and nature. She fits well with nearby Stonehenge. Jonathan Jones

Going out: Stage

Amy Annette
Leeds, 27 May; Manchester, 28 May; Bristol, 30 May; touring to 31 May
Incessant body shaming and ludicrous beauty standards made the 00s a terrible time to be a teenage girl. Combine this with the recent Y2K style revival, and you have a perfect storm of problematic nostalgia – something Annette mines to silly, cathartic effect in Thick Skin. Rachel Aroesti

Dear Loll: A Wartime Marriage in Letters
Wilton’s Music Hall, London, 30 & 31 May
In the summer of 1940, the Manchester Guardian journalist Gerard Fay joined the army and his wife “Loll” stayed home. This is their intimate wartime story, based on thousands of letters discovered by writer Rosanna Greenstreet. Miriam Gillinson

The Beautiful Future Is Coming
Bristol Old Vic, to 7 June
Flora Wilson Brown’s crisscrossing new play looks at three couples over 250 years of climate crisis. It’s a haunting but hopeful work about holding on to humanity against the odds. Nancy Medina directs. MG

Flamenco festival
Various venues, London, 27 May to 8 June
This year’s festival opens at Sadler’s Wells with one of Spain’s biggest dance stars, Sara Baras, her technique still blistering at the age of 54. Other acts include trailblazing queer choreographer Manuel Liñán and virtuoso dancer Farruquito. Lyndsey Winship