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Babylon
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Since his breakthrough in 2014’s Whiplash, director Damien Chazelle has shown interest in performance and visuals. From La La Land’s incredible dance show to Ryan Gosling’s high-fives in First Man, it feels like everything is building up to Babylon, its soaring homage to 1920s Hollywood decadence.
The Holy Spider
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Elsewhere in the city of Mashhad, an assassin (Mehdi Bajestani) is killing prostitutes, while living a superficial life as a family. Based on a true story, Ali Abbasi’s fascinating film is a well-crafted work of suspense that attempts to explore the mind of a murderer and the culture of the people who briefly lived with him.
More Than Ever
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Vicky Krieps, who stars in Corsage, is about to transform as the distraught wife in Corsage. . (Gaspard Ulliel).
Book of Visions
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A fantasy drama inspired by both The Goonies and Terrence Malick (who produced the films), as well as Charles Dance, where a doctor studying the history of medicine discovers an 18th-century medicine book. Catherine Bray
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Picture of PVRIS
January 22 to 26; The journey begins in Glasgow
US rock-rock entrepreneurs Lynn Gunn and Brian MacDonald, have arrived in the UK for a whistle-stop tour. The group recently teased their next time with the song Somewhere But Here is a favorite animal of the future, which is built around sound. Michael Cragg
Tim Garland and Jason Rebello
Cafe at the Crypt, London, 21 January; The Building, Shrewsbury, 27 January
Saxophonist Tim Garland and pianist Jason Rebello have shared many stages over three decades (playing separately for Sting, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea and others), but this tour marks their first album, Life to Life. John Fordham
Lucinda Williams
January 21 to 26; The journey begins in London
Heading to the UK to play as part of Glasgow’s 30th Celtic Connections festival (January 23), American great Lucinda Williams has 14 sets to record, so expect a stellar line-up. MC
Face Bali Concert
BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 27 January
Alexandre Tharaud is a soloist with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a piano concerto by Thierry Pécou, led by Balinese gamelan groups. Conductor Marzena Diakun leads the UK with Debussy’s Prélude à l’Après-Midi d’un Faune, followed by Martinů’s Third Symphony. Andrew Clements
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The Lehman Trilogy
Gillian Lynne Theatre, London, 24 January until 20 May
Director Sam Mendes’s Tony award-winning production returns, depicting the humble rise and catastrophic fall of Lehman Brothers. Featuring Michael Balogun, Hadley Fraser and Nigel Lindsay. Miriam Gillinson
Head on Heels
Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester, 26 January on 4 March
Queer jukebox musical from the creative team behind Spring Awakening and Avenue Q. Based on Sir Philip Sidney’s 16th-century poem Arcadia and set to the music of the Go-Go’s, it follows a royal family on a quest to save their kingdom. MG
Acosta Dance
Royal Opera House: Linbury Theatre, London, 23 to 30 January
Carlos Acosta’s company has amazing dancers. This bill is based on classical, modern and Cuban dances, with works by composers including Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Goyo Montero. Lyndsey Winship
Babatunde Aleshe
26 January until 27 May; The journey begins in Brighton
After finding fame as Mo Gilligan’s (impossibly funny) sidekick on Celebrity Gogglebox, last year’s standout Aléshé swapped the sofa for a big block during her I’m a Celeb stint. Now the 36-year-old is returning to comedy and touring the world. Rachel Aroesti
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Alberta Whittle
Holburne Museum, Bath, 27 January on 8 May
Bath is a city whose Georgian palaces and Assembly Rooms were built during the slave trade. Scottish artist Whittle takes that credit here. But its main themes are community, care and healing, so expect a show that offers both hope and criticism.
Spain is the country of Spain
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 21 January until 10 April
Goya’s large portrait of the Duchess of Alba, pointing sternly at the ground as she stands in traditional dress, is one of New York’s Hispanic Society Museum & Library’s treasures on display. Early world maps, Islamic paintings from Andalucía and paintings by Velázquez also star.
Mohammed Sami
Camden Art Centre, London, 27 January on 28 May
Memories of Iraq haunt Sami’s paintings. Born in Baghdad in 1984 and granted asylum in Sweden before settling in the UK as an artist, Sami paints large canvases full of smoky violence. The prospect of oppression and war continues here like a blot on the sky.
Jade Montserrat
Manchester Art Gallery, until 29 January
The last opportunity to see the exhibition in which Montserrat combines his watercolors with the study of the concept of “galaxies”, which he interprets from mythology and astronomy to mean networks of support and culture. His piece A Return to Breath features the eyes of people including Marcus Rashford and Bobby Sands. Jonathan Jones
Living in: Streaming
The views of the company Lockwood & Co
27 January, Netflix
In his first film Attack the Block, Joe Cornish combined high fantasy with the humdrum life of London to make it fun. Promisingly, he’s also digging into a parallel seam for his next major TV project: a hair-raising adaptation of Jonathan Stroud’s YA novel about a group of young ghost hunters.
Beat the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
21 Januaryat 9 pm, BBC Two & iPlayer
There have been ten doctors who trace the legacy of hip-hop (even one with the same title), but these four episodes of Chuck D’s cut above, as the main figures and the first witnesses of the growth of the genre depends on his talent and creativity. social status.
Decrease
27 January, Apple TV +
Jason Segel’s How I Met Your Mother stars as Jimmy, a grief-stricken therapist who begins to offer candid advice to his patients in this new drama featuring big names in the background (Ted Lasso’s Brett Goldstein and Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence co-write) and in the front. (Harrison Ford co-stars).
All Others Burn
23 January10 p.m, Channel 4 & All 4
Is it from The Inbetweeners with the cutest hair? Yes please! Simon Mbalame has put on an impressive plate to play the scion of the most religious people eagerly awaiting the end of the season in this new sitcom, whose cast – Morgana Robinson, Al Roberts, Lolly Adefope, Kadiff Kirwan – is only a cartoon. RA
Living in: Sports
They predicted
Getting out 24 January, PS5, PC
A woman is plucked from the streets of New York, given magical powers and thrown into a fantasy world full of horrors to fight. Very surprising, but the jury is still out on the matter.
Pocket Card Jockey: Ride!
Now, iPhone, iPad
From the creators of Pokémon, this fun mashup of solitaire and horse racing (yes, really) is unexpectedly fun. Likewise, MacDonald
Living in: Albums
Dave Rowntree – Radio Music
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The debut album by Blur drummer Dave Rowntree was inspired by his childhood spent watching international radio broadcasts of the beat game. With its 10 tracks recorded around the sky, in the midst of a static environment, Radio Music is filled with the lo-fi experimentation of his 1997 work.
Big Pig – Bubblegum
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Irish singer and rapper Jessica Smyth, has been teasing this mixtape since September, with three of her seven tracks already out, including the excellent club Kerosene. Among the others, sparkling Liquorice shows Smyth’s softer side.
Låpsley – Cautionary Tales for Young People
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Since releasing sophomore album Through the Water, singer-songwriter and producer Holly Fletcher has split her time between co-writing (Joel Corry and Jax Jones’s Out Out) and studying at London’s Goldsmiths College. He has also created this new tactile electronic pop group, which speaks volumes about the breakdown of relationships.
Mac DeMarco – Five Easy Hot Dogs
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In January 2022, troubadour DeMarco embarked on a road trip, the decision to head north and not return to his home in LA until a new album was finished. The result is a collection of 14 mysterious weapons, each of which is named after a different city on its journey. MC
Living in: Brain food
Conversion
Podcast; outside 24 January
Erika Lantz’s first stories about The Turning were an interesting take on the Catholic mystery of Mother Teresa. The second season continues the theme of using personal testimony to reveal hidden worlds, this time focusing on American ballet.
Grayson Perry’s Full English
26 Januaryat 9 pm, Channel 4 & All 4
Artist Grayson Perry proved to be a world record holder with his 2020 Big American Road Trip show. Now he’s looking at his home with a three-part series examining the things that make up “Englishness”.
BBC Motion Graphics Archive
On the Internet
Ravensbourne University’s archives are a fun journey through 80 years of BBC test cards, idents and photographs. With over 3,000 entries to wade through, you can search for anything from Andy Pandy intros to the EastEnders theme. Ammar Kalia
