Demi Moore snags a juicy role as an aerobics star whose twinkle is fading, and who – upon finding herself fired on her 50th birthday – tries a new age-defying wonder drug. This from director Coralie Fargeat also stars Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid. The tumultuous life of the French left-wing intellectual and militant Pierre Goldman could provide fodder for several movies.
This focuses on his second trial for armed robberies in which two women died, in a courtroom drama that premiered to universal acclaim at Cannes last year. When BTS member Jungkook began to release , only a fool would have bet against it becoming huge, which it duly did; his debut solo single Seven became the fastest song to surpass 1bn streams on Spotify. Now he’s taking over the multiplex, with a documentary featuring new interviews and concert footage.
The debut feature from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, which premiered at the Sundance film festival this year, is a documentary portrait of First Nations communities around the Sugarcane Reserve in Canada, whose history encompasses resilience in the face of separation and abuse. The London-based rock quartet released their third consecutive UK Top 5 album this summer, Midnight Butterflies. While their rougher edges are often polished to a frustrating sheen on record, it’s in a live scenario that they really work.
Earlier this year, US singer-songwriter Bill Callahan (formerly known as Smog), he of the lacquered baritone, released the live album Resuscitate! Mainly showcasing 2022’s Reality, it was a beautiful example of how his songs can mutate on stage. See it for yourselves on this UK tour. It’s the 21st year of the stylistically diverse Scarborough jazz festival, with UK vocal legend Elaine Delmar, young Scottish pianist Fergus McCreadie and swing-to-bop sax virtuoso Alan Barnes playing Friday’s openers.
The weekend features Joni Mitchell-celebrating band Hejira, and classy Dutch vocalist Fay Claassen. Last month, Mark Elder conducted his final concerts as music director of the Hallé, after 24 years with the orchestra. His successor is the Singapore-born Kahchun Wong, who opens his tenure as principal conductor with Mahler’s imposing First Symphony.
Paula Rego’s artworks get their power from a marriage of reality and fantasy. Her sharp eye for faces and figures goes with a gothic penchant for fairytales and myths. How much do her nightmares have in common with those of Goya, who also saw the macabre in convincing detail? Claude Monet first visited London as a penniless unknown, taking refuge from the Franco-Prussian war.
Decades later he returned, a famous and wealthy artist who could afford to stay at the Savoy. The views of the Thames and Westminster he painted from his hotel are strange masterpieces of smog-refracted sunlight. The Silk Roads played a wondrous part in world history, bringing Chinese silk to ancient Rome and Greek art to Afghanistan.
The term refers to trade routes that linked east and west, crossing the Gobi desert, but has come to suggest a new, inclusive way of seeing the global story. This survey of the portrait miniature, from Tudor Britain to Victorian times, takes you into a tiny world of microscopic miracles. It is genuinely hard to comprehend how miniaturists were able to depict lace collars, jewels and hair in such exquisitely shrunken detail.
Starring Nicholas Hilliard, Isaac Oliver and more. After three nominations (one for her solo work, two for sketch duo the Delightful Sausage), Gledhill finally took home an Edinburgh comedy award at this year’s fringe. Her winning hour – Make Me Look Fit on the Poster – saw the Hull standup interrogate body image and insecurity with droll smut and exuberant silliness.
There are more than 150 performers in this large-scale show telling the story of Chatham Dockyard, from its involvement in slavery to the impact of its closure 40 years ago. A huge community cast will be joined by hip-hop dancers ZooNation and south Asian company Amina Khayyam Dance. Angela Carter’s wild, vivid writing feels destined for the stage.
This new production of The Company of Wolves transports audiences to a dark night in the middle of winter, as shadows loom and dangers lurk. Theresa Heskins and Vicki Amedume direct, with acrobats helping to bring this tale of terror to life. In 1940s Harlem, songwriter Vy is hoping to make it big, but she’ll never be taken seriously as a woman in a man’s world.
Toying with gender, jazz and mistaken identity, Play On! retells Twelfth Night with the toe-tapping music of Duke Ellington. Michael Buffong, Artistic Director of Talwa Theatre, directs. As we creep towards Halloween, spooky shows are starting to rear their heads.
Inspired by the ghost stories of MR James, we see four strangers stuck in Room 13 in a lonely, haunted hotel. This homegrown production looks like a fun family night out, if you’re feeling brave (age 12+). Following the major success of Big Little Lies, another Liane Moriarty novel gets a star-studded TV adaptation.
Annette Bening, Sam Neill and Jake Lacy (The White Lotus) lead this melodramatic mystery about a matriarch who goes missing, leaving her four children to open many cans of familial worms as they investigate her disappearance. When rabbi Noah (Adam Brody, as winningly beta as he was in The OC) meets outrageous podcaster Joanne (Kristen Bell, as sharp-tongued and morally ambivalent as her Good Place character), the chemistry is both predictable and potent. This odd-couple dramedy is machine-tooled to comfort and charm.
Nigel Benn, Frank Bruno, Chris Eubank and Lennox Lewis: all born in London in the 1960s; all headline-grabbing boxing royalty by the early 1990s. This documentary remembers two seminal fights from October 1993 via interviews with the foursome. Personality will not be in short supply.
NFL’s Travis Kelce – AKA Mr Taylor Swift – makes his major acting debut in the latest project from the inordinately prolific showrunner Ryan Murphy. A disturbed detective and a nun/journalist team up to solve a set of sickening murders that seem to radiate evil. As ever with Murphy, a strong stomach is a viewing requirement.
Ditching the Fifa licence did not slow EA Sports’ series down. The next, marginally different version of its football sim features women in Career mode and finessed team tactics. The first Zelda game where you actually play as Zelda, conjuring magic replicas of enemies and furniture to puzzle through a dark-mirror Hyrule.
Since releasing 2015’s solo debut album In Colour, the dance producer has focused mainly on his sometime bandmates in the xx, producing Oliver Sim’s Hideous Bastard album and working on Romy’s Mid Air. He pulls focus back to his own discography here, pairing Robyn with buoyant disco on sun-drenched highlight Life. Across her seven albums, the Canadian pop star has taken in airy, uplifting pop (2000’s Whoa, Nelly!), rib-rattling R&B monsters (2006’s Loose) and, on 2017’s curio The Ride, alt-rock experimentation.
Seven years after that last album she’s back, still reshaping her sound, such as on the sweaty, Tove Lo-assisted bop Love Bites. Fresh from lending his not inconsiderable vocals to songs from Röyksopp’s 2022 Profound Mysteries trilogy of albums, Jamie Irrepressible returns to his own project for a record made specifically for the queer community. Lead single Will You? (“like a handsome strapping cowboy”) pairs desire to a lurching alt-rock swagger.
Reteaming with producer James Ford, the Waeve, AKA Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall, unleash this hasty follow-up to last year’s debut. Continuing to evoke a vision of bruised romanticism, songs such as You Saw and City Lights are widescreen and windswept rock symphonies. An unflinching look at the man who turned regional wrestling business WWE into an international empire, this film charts the rise and fall of Vince McMahon, who is now the subject of a federal sex trafficking investigation – allegations he denies.
Online radio station NTS offers a second series of long-form interviews with alternative musical greats, hosted by Zakia Sewell. Among the insightful talking heads are academic and crate digger DJ Sprinkles and performance artist Diamanda Galás. From the original Wilhelm Scream to the sound of a dying Star Wars Stormtrooper, this niche online archive features digitised sounds used in Hollywood films from the 1930s to 80s.
A fascinating guide to audiovisual atmosphere..
