An addictive example of a burgeoning genre, its elaborate widgets and logistics demand long shifts that have re-engineered my unconscious mindEveryone knows about the Tetris effect, named after the puzzle game that is so compelling players can find themselves visualising falling blocks and imagining how real-world objects could fit together long after...

National Portrait Gallery, London The hard-living artist’s distorted figures – deformed to reveal mortality, sex and death – often left their subjects feeling injured. But this biting show should leave crowds astonishedTeeth. We all have them, or start out with them. We’re supposed to take care of them, so we can flash a smile. But for Francis Bacon,...

This careful, intelligent documentary about the 1984 IRA attack on the Conservative party conference is largely a study of its victim – and her failure to understand the issues that led to itBombing Brighton: The Plot to Kill Thatcher is a documentary with a gap in the middle. Its main interviewee is the Brighton bomber himself, Patrick Magee, who in...

Minerva theatre, Chichester Colourful characters gather for a will reading in this horror-comedy, given a larky update with stylish sequencesIf walls could talk you’d want to hear the rock’n’roll history at Redlands, Keith Richards’ country pile, whose infamy inspired Chichester Festival theatre’s new production. Meanwhile, in the Minerva next door,...

They shot to fame as randy teens in Y Tu Máma También. Now the duo are back in a tale of Botox, boxing and borderline incest. Getting in shape took discipline, they reveal – and lots of broccoliForget Oasis: there’s a more dynamic reunion in town. Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, the lifelong friends who first paired up on screen to play oversexed...

Tate Modern, London The Korean artist’s hanging sculpture of a turbine oozing brown liquid aims to frighten and disgust – but this hackneyed effort doesn’t even smellTate Modern’s Turbine Hall commission is always a daunting prospect for an artist. Since Louise Bourgeois first occupied the space in 2000, soon after the museum opened, with her towers...