Totalitarian, ideologically motivated despot, or simply a fine American film-maker? Oliver Stone meets Hugo Chávez. Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features Despite my many differences with Oliver Stone as an artist, I congratulate him on having managed both to present an unhysterical... 

Cristiano Ronaldo is now a father. Photograph: Eamonn and James Clarke/EMPICS Entertainment Etiquette update: mentioning “the curse of the Nike advert” is now desperately outmoded – it’s time to start talking about its staggeringly pedestrian vision of the future. Oh sure,... 

Out on the tiles … Francis Alÿs’s A Story of Deception at Tate Modern. Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/Rex Features After the feast, the famine. Well, not entirely – there are still plenty must-see shows around, but it’s probably the quietest week of the year so far for new... 

OBR interim chairman Sir Alan Budd (left, with George Osborne), is expected to face searching questions at the Treasury committee next Tuesday. Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe Pool/EPA Fears rose last night that job losses in the public sector will be higher than forecast by George Osborne’s... 

Playing doctor … Ben Kingsley, Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo in Shutter Island. Photograph: Paramount/Everett / Rex Features Cinema has long been bad news for the mentally ill, typically representing them as the likes of Psycho’s Norman Bates – crazed, dangerous and in need of...