With new episodes launching today, now is the perfect time to revel in the cruel humour of the hit cartoon

Randall Swingler served in the 1939-45 war and went on to publish two postwar collections

Until the early 20th century, a mass of figures often dominated works but Modernism preferred emptiness

Yhonnie Scarce and Judy Watson talk about creating work with seductive surfaces and dark themes

Six-part series adapts Wally Lamb’s novel about family, loss and mental illness

The series follows an idiotic yet charming nerd trying to make it big as Lil Dicky

Our pick of the latest series and documentaries — plus older favourites to binge on

The book captures the carefree, haute-bourgeois lifestyle of the young photographer

Ancient antagonists build bridges as treasure finds mount up

The director talks about gender-swaps, fundraising and the future of drama after lockdown

Academy makes exemption to rule over screening films in cinemas

The French director’s centenary is celebrated with a new box set of his subdued, subtle films

New period drama about an aspiring actor pulls back the curtain on postwar Tinseltown

Berlin’s property boom is the setting for Cüneyt Kaya’s film

Kitty Green’s response to the Harvey Weinstein case unfolds with muted rage

A woman’s life unravels spectacularly in this wildly original movie

Alain Delon stars in this existential thriller, set in Nazi-occupied Paris

A formidable film actor in an industry in thrall to its movie stars

Plus: the FT's film critic on what to watch now

Join FT film critic Danny Leigh for a live chat on Friday May 1 at 12pm and 5pm UK time

The much-loved film critic traces how the nation’s film industry found its voice in a three-part series on BBC4

Sam Mendes’ powerfully immersive Great War drama; a camply cavorting Hitler in Nazi-era fable

From skiing in the high Andes to free-diving beneath a frozen Finnish lake

The Romanian director’s new film is a noirish tale built around a non-verbal language from a small Spanish island

Elizabeth Carroll’s documentary spotlights Kennedy as celebrity cook and social historian

Corneliu Porumboiu’s crime movie is a colourful tribute to noir classics

There are potent moments here amid the stage-managed gloss

Corneliu Porumboiu’s film introduces us to a man with big ideas for the beautiful game

Shelagh McLeod’s film is a small, warm drama of space and family

‘The Whistlers’, ‘Becoming’, ‘Astronaut’, ‘Infinite Football’, ‘Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy’ and from 1976 ‘Mr Klein’, starring Alain Delon — all reviewed by Danny Leigh

In an exclusive first interview, the CEO talks about his love of scary movies, video games and why the BFI should be like ‘a nerdy friend’

Greta Gerwig’s Little Women comes up a little short; Pixar’s latest sends elf brother on a quest with half a dad

Despite good musicianship from both principals, their songs make little impression

Warmly burnished and gently cryptic, this is easy listening at its most enjoyable

New album channels protest music and social comment through Delta blues mythology and psych-rock

Eric Clapton’s collaborator Duane Allman helped transform the song into a bravura rock showpiece

A star-studded cast sang from their own homes in the New York opera house’s four-hour show

Subscriber numbers surge to 130m as listeners turn to tunes in a crisis

Brian Christinzio’s vocals have the singsong flow of Brian Wilson

An alt-rock concept album whose concept is never clearly defined

Brooding subject matter meets richly detailed music in the British rapper’s fifth album

The American singer’s album is sexually frank, with harmonies reminiscent of Mariah Carey

A reissue of the group’s 1981 debut recalls a fecund period in Accra’s musical history

The opera singer gets to the heart of the music in tender performances

The trumpeter captures his compatriot’s mischievous sense of humour and serious intent

The ENO is adapting a gimmick to attract new audiences now the pandemic has hit

Singers down the years have been drawn to a mysterious track written by a man who turned his back on music

The annual parade of work by living composers went online, performed from living rooms

With summer events cancelled, the focus is on how to recoup funding and audiences

Artists such as Travis Scott and Charli XCX are appearing in digital form, watched by audiences of avatars