A star-studded cast embarks on a pilgrimage to Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s feminist drama, and Roald Dahl’s singular illustrator celebrates his 90th birthday.
Cassius X: Becoming AliNow AvailableThis documentary highlights Ali’s early years as Cassius Clay, on his adventure to become an activist, civil rights activist, and intellectual, through his friendships with the likes of Malcolm X and his religious awakening after reading the teachings of Elijah Muhammad.
Who would have imagined that 2023 would bring us a comedy starring So Solid Crew’s Megaman, Jeremy Corbyn, Lethal Bizzle, Jennifer Saunders, and Ed Sheeran?But thanks to Adam Deacon, lo and behold, it happened. After 2011’s Anuvahood, Deacon is part of a duo hatching outlandish plans to speed up.
The Miracle Club Now AvailableSet in the 1960s and starring Laura Linney, Kathy Bates, Maggie Smith, and Stephen Rea, Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s drama sees an organization of working-class women from the beach town of Ballygar in Ireland go on an adventure of a lifetime. : to Lourdes in France, that of many miracles reported.
Friday the 13th (Re-release) Available now It’s time to get back to where it all began: Crystal Lake, the woefully secret summer camp, which is about to make the age-old approach of slaughtering a group of teenagers felt. It’s worth watching, especially since it will help you answer the first quiz about a horror movie in Scream, unlike the old and deficient Drew Barrymore. Catherine Bray
Maisie Peters, Oct. 17-Nov. 17. 3; The tour starts in Glasgow. This outing, culminating in his biggest showcase to date, celebrates Peters’ chart-topping album, The Good Witch. Expect big-screen pop-rock with Taylor Swift-esque lyrical precision, chest tension and lush pogo.
Luke Combs will be on tour through Oct. 20; The tour starts in Belfast. Country star Combs has achieved enormous good fortune in the United States with her version of Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car, making Chapman the first black woman to achieve a country number one with a solo songwriting. Combs rarely does too badly in the U. K. either, as evidenced by this stadium tour at Gettin’ Old in March. Michael Cragg
Christian McBride’s New JawnRonnie Scott’s, London, October 16 & 17Christian McBride from Philadelphia has been a jazz bass star for 3 decades, but as an engaging conductor, he also combines swing, Latin music, soul-blues and much more. The quartet, New Jawn, includes postbop saxoist Marcus Strickland and New York drum star Nasheet Waits. John Fordham
Transfigured NightMilton Court, London, October 18 Violinist Viktoria Mullova “an immersive adventure in a nocturnal forest” as a prelude to her interpretation of Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, with samples, choreographies and projections of the poetry that animated Schoenberg’s work.
Beyond PageMK Gallery, Milton Keynes, until January 28 Miniature painting flourished in the Mughal Empire in the 16th and 17th centuries, when court artists fused Islamic and European styles to adorn books with portraits and battles. Today, this South Asian culture resonates with many novelties. Artists.
The Anatsui Tate Modern, London, until April 14 The wonderful Ghanaian artist with recycled good looks brings something special to the vast area of the Tate’s Turbine Hall. The Anatsui creates gleaming pictorial spectacles of textured and colored fabrics discovered in everyday life. What will it do? The largest playground in the Tate?The result deserves to be surprising.
Sir Quentin BlakeHastings Contemporary, until November 12 New drawings by the beloved illustrator whose lanky figures gave faces to Roald Dahl’s characters. It would possibly be as much a part of your formative years as it is of mine. At 90 years old, the inexhaustible Blake still imagines fun worlds in the 3 sequels presented here.
Hiroshi Sugimoto Hayward Gallery, London, until January 7 One of the most artistically important photographers of our time, and perhaps of all time, Sugimoto has an idea of what photography is: a stillness, a freezing of light that, according to French theorist Roland Barthes, can be deadly. Sugimoto sees death in everything from wax works to seascapes. Jonathan Jones
Tig Notaro Brighton, 17 October; Manchester, 19 October; In 2012, four days after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, Notaro presented a set that propelled her to the ubiquity of comedy. Today, the 52-year-old’s team is (thankfully) more mundane; Their new journey uses teams of family members, firefighters, celebrities and dream boats. Rachel Aroesti
Trueman and the ArsonistsRoundhouse, London, October 18 – November 8 Simon Stephens and an exceptional artistic team rework Max Frisch’s exploration of how ethical lethargy can invite evil. With songs through Chris Thorpe, thoughtful.
Transform FestivalAt various venues, Leeds, until 22 October. With thirteen companies from 12 countries, adding a show about telephone conversations with young people living under the Iranian dictatorship (Songs for No One) and a work created from many presentations by young people from Leeds. and Reykjavik (Secrets). Miriam Gillinson
Take Me SomewhereVarious venues, Glasgow, until October 28 Louise Ahl creates an experimental opera with personalized scents, Eve Stainton solders live, Carolina Bianchi gets high on stage, Sonya Lindfors imagines a dance of decolonization, and Ashanti Harris invites them to participate in a ritual of joy and healing. Lyndsey Winship
The Burning Girls Paramount, October 19 Samantha Morton’s presence in this dramatization of CJ Tudor’s 2021 novel elevates her beyond the ordinary. She plays a vicar who arrives in a rural parish persecuted by Protestant martyrs, and also by many fashionable demons.
BodiesNetflix, October 19 The combination of genres has revitalized music. Can you do the same with television? This ambitious adaptation of Si Spencer’s graphic novel fuses period drama, police procedurals, and science fiction as four detectives from three centuries to solve the same recurring murder.
BreedersNow/Sky Comedy, October 20 at 9 p. m. Watching parents under pressure on screen is a special kind of catharsis, but Breeders goes even beyond the same old mistakes. In its fourth and final series, Ally and Paul (Daisy Haggard and Martin Freeman) will decide whether or not they will end their marriage.
UploadAmazon Prime, October 20 There’s a high-profile comedy, and then there’s Upload, Greg Daniels’ virtual comedy about the afterlife that gets more and more mind-blowing with each release. Season 3 is back, with the protagonist Nathan, or rather, thank you. to a mistakenly triggered backup, Nathans, trying to thwart an election scam perpetrated by his ex-girlfriend’s evil father. RA
PC Silent Hope, Switch; As it turns out, Japanese isometric RPGs are making a strong comeback. Silent Hope, from cult developer Marvelous, is an action-adventure e-book that follows seven heroes who set out to save a princess from a criminal made of tears. It’s a captivating old-fashioned yarn with compelling combat.
EndowmentPC; If you like city-building games like The Settlers or Civilization, enjoy this one, from lone coder Michele Pirovano. You are the village elder looking to identify a new home for your heterogeneous network in the face of a approaching apocalypse. It mixes elements of board games and strategy simulations, and the little visuals are ridiculously cute. Keith Stuart
Holly Humberstone – Paint My Bedroom BlackOut nowAfter a series of EPs and after winning the Brit Rising Star Award in 2022, British singer-songwriter Humberstone, despite everything, releases her debut album. Co-created with Rob Milton (1975’s Easy Life), it’s an amalgamation of dark shades of electronic pop (Antichrist), indie (Room Service) and booming MOR with ’80s overtones.
The Drums – Jonny Out NowEssentially a solo studio effort for frontman Jonny Pierce, The Drums’ sixth album is packed with melodic, vaguely lo-fi jangle pop. Highlights come with the fast-moving Obvious, accompanied by one of the choruses of the year, and the dramatic debut single, I Want it All.
L’Rain – I Killed Your DogNow AvailableBrooklyn-based genre mathematician L’Rain, also known as Taja Cheek, returns with his third album and follow-up to 2021’s critically acclaimed Fatigue, angelesimed. On the single track “I Killed Your Dog,” Cheek explores folk, dad rock, and electronic textures, as shown through Pet Rock à los angeles Strokes.
It makes sense that Australian pop star Troye Sivan released Rush, the first single from this third album, in the middle of the summer. A sweat-soaked track, accompanied by a matching nude video. This feeling of freedom continues on an album centered around “Party after party, after party after party. ” MC
Ballers: Ball Or NothingBBC iPlayerThis captivating series follows the fate of Scotland’s professional basketball team, Glasgow Rocks, as they face severe monetary difficulties and attempt to shape an organization of recruits nostalgic for the United States.
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BFI ArchiveOnline As the BFI London Film Festival draws to a close for yet another year, the film institution has an up-to-date online archive of documentaries, films and TV series, covering everything from newsreels to nostalgic commercials. Ammar Kalia