Final Destination to Long Bright River: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
Final Destination: BloodlinesOut nowFunctioning like a sort of extreme version of You’ve Been Framed, this is the premier horror franchise dedicated to giving you intrusive thoughts about horrible accidents.Of course, they aren’t actually accidents, but Death himself, stalking those snatched from his grasp via handy premonitions.Not for the faint of stomach.E.1027: Eileen Gray and the House by the SeaOut nowYou’ve probably heard of Le Corbusier, but have you heard of the architect he was obsessed with, and her greatest creation? The titular Eileen and the modernist villa she built in the 1920s are the subject of this poetic docudrama.
Hallow RoadOut nowDirected by Babak Anvari (Under the Shadow), and starring Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys, this chiller is set almost entirely in the car of two parents racing to help their daughter, who has just phoned to tell them she’s accidentally run down a pedestrian.Black DebutantesBFI Southbank, London, to 31 May This ongoing season is dedicated to early films made by Black female directors, many of whom were subsequently unable to build the careers that should have followed.In addition to the films, the season features events and panels, including Exhibiting Black Cinema on 22 May.Catherine BrayTyler, the CreatorUtilita Arena, Birmingham, 17 May; touring to 31 MayThe Californian polymath tours arenas in arenas on the back of last year’s chart-topping eighth album, Chromakopia.Armed with a discography that touches on hip-hop, rap, jazz, R&B, soul and funk, expect an experimental melange of everything that’s made Tyler Okonma one of music’s most exciting practitioners.
Michael CraggParsifalGlyndebourne Opera House, Lewes, 17 May to 24 JuneWagner’s final, most enigmatic music drama is staged at Glyndebourne for the first time.“My desire is to create characters that we can feel,” says director Jetske Mijnssen, who is making her debut at the Sussex house.It’s conducted by Glyndebourne’s music director Robin Ticciati, with Daniel Johansson in the title role and John Relyea as Gurnemanz; Kristina Stanek is Kundry, and Ryan Speedo Green Klingsor.Andrew ClementsManchester jazz festivalVarious venues, 16 to 25 MayThis festival runs at venues around the city all week, including gigs by the culture-crossing electro-acoustic trumpeter Yazz Ahmed (17 May), keyboards original Elliott Galvin’s powerful band including bassist Ruth Goller and drummer Sebastian Rochford (19 May), and subtle Anglo-Polish singer, violinist and improviser-composer Alice Zawadzki (20 May).John FordhamScissor SistersOVO Hydro, Glasgow, today; touring to 28 MayThirteen years after going on hiatus, the glam-rockers – minus Ana Matronic – are back touring UK arenas.
While the crowd-pleasers will be I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ and Laura, fingers crossed there’s space for anything from 2010’s underrated Night Work album,MCAncient India, Living TraditionsBritish Museum, London, 22 May to 19 October Some of the most striking religious images in the world, including the multiform deities of the Hindu pantheon, figure in this blockbuster survey of early Indian art and its echoes in modern religion,It looks back 2,000 years, at the rise of Jain and Buddhist art (such as an AD701–750 painting of the Buddha) as well as Hindu,Nikki de Saint-Phalle & Jean TinguelyHauser and Wirth Somerset, Bruton, today to 1 February These renowned provocateurs were also a married couple,Nikki de Saint-Phalle shot holes in her art and created matriarchal, mythological creatures.
Her husband, Jean Tinguely, built absurd surrealistic machines that drew crowds to their mechanical “performances”, in which they burst apart or gradually wound down into entropy.Art with humour.John Singer SargentKenwood House, London, to 5 October The salons of an English Heritage stately home are the perfect setting to see this Edwardian painter’s brilliant portraits – at once grandly traditional and full of modern anxiety and ambiguity.The show focuses on his paintings of wealthy American women.They seem like characters created by his friend Henry James.
Stephen CoxHoughton Hall, nr King’s Lynn, to 28 September Sculptures of mythological beings in a modern, semi-abstract style by a British artist who often exhibits at classical and ancient sites around the world.Exploring his show will lead you through the Palladian wonderland of Houghton Hall.Jonathan JonesNick Mohammed Is Mr Swallow: Show PonyTouring to 11 NovemberBetween sitcoms with David Schwimmer, movies with Orlando Bloom and a star turn in Ted Lasso, Nick Mohammed has acquired full-blown star status – but that doesn’t mean he’s abandoned his longstanding alter ego, the shrill, embittered and chaotic magician Mr Swallow, whose myriad blunders he showcases on this new nationwide tour.Rachel AroestiBallet BCSadler’s Wells, London, 20 & 21 May; Edinburgh festival theatre, 23 & 24 May; touring to 11 June Canada’s premier contemporary ballet tour two UK premieres.One of the most in-demand names in dance, Vancouver’s own Crystal Pite, reimagines her 2008 work Frontier, which is performed alongside Passing by Sweden’s Johan Inger, incorporating folk, hip-hop and swing.
Expect a quality show.There are film and family programmes, too.Lyndsey WinshipThe Fifth Step@sohoplace, to 26 JulyDavid Ireland’s slippery play about addiction, masculinity and faith transfers to the West End.Jack Lowden (Slow Horses) plays a young alcoholic looking for answers, with Martin Freeman as the AA veteran who befriends him.Miriam GillinsonBiting PointFruit Market Multi-Storey Car Park, Hull, to 18 MayTheatre with a cracking view and strong purpose from local innovators Middle Child.
Sid Sagar’s new play is about a supermarket driver and property manager whose worlds collide – with a bang – amid Hull’s traffic.Performed in a car park with the audience wearing headphones.MGSign up to Inside SaturdayThe only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine.Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend.after newsletter promotionLong Bright RiverChannel 4, 18 May, 10pm The reliably excellent Amanda Seyfried enters her hard-nosed cop era in this adaptation of Liz Moore’s novel.
When a police officer begins investigating the murders of three women in her deprived Philadelphia neighbourhood, her motive is not entirely professional – and her safety far from guaranteed.The Bombing of Pan Am 103BBC One & iPlayer, 18 May, 9pmWe’ve already had one TV drama about the hunt for the perpetrators of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing this year, starring Colin Firth as a bereaved father and campaigner.Now this BBC and Netflix co-production enlists Eddie Marsan, Merritt Wever and Connor Swindells to retell the tale of the worst terror attack in UK history.Code of SilenceITV & ITVX, 18 May, 9pmRose Ayling-Ellis is a deaf canteen worker whose lip-reading skills are utilised by police monitoring a criminal gang in this new drama from Catherine Moulton, the brains behind recent hair-raiser The Stolen Girl.Andrew Buchan and Charlotte Ritchie play the detectives who get more than they bargained for from their new recruit.
SirensNetflix, 22 MayPrepare for another preposterous thriller involving A-listers in a palatial setting with this new series from playwright Molly Smith Metzler.Milly Alcock stars as the assistant and acolyte of mysterious rich lady Micheala (Julianne Moore) – until her chaotic sister (Meghann Fahy) arrives to break the spell.RADeliver At All CostsOut 22 May; PC, PS5, XboxImagine Sega’s arcade classic Crazy Taxi, but instead of hurtling around a modern city in a cab, you’re delivering weird packages in 1950s America.The isometric visuals and nostalgic music enhance the retro feel, but the best part is the destructible environment, allowing you to leave ruined buildings and smashed-up cars in your wake.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical TakedownOut 22 May; PCThe heroes in halfshells return for another video game outing, except this time it’s in a highly tactical turn-based brawler where you carefully plan attacks on various foes using each turtle’s unique abilities.
Developed by acclaimed and hughly indie studio Strange Scaffold, this is the most unexpected cultural collaboration since Pokémon and the Van Gogh Museum,Keith StuartTom Aspaul – Cabin Fever Out 19 May Inspired by an acid trip in Sweden on Midsommar weekend, the third album by Wolverhampton pop maven Tom Aspaul explores sweaty sexcapades (the title track), paranoia (Drama) and, on the choppy electropop of That Girl, carefree longing,Rico Nasty – Lethal Out now On Lethal’s lead single Teethsucker (Yea3x), Rico Nasty channels her rage-rap persona, destroying some no-mark over thundering guitars,But this third album also aims to show all versions of the Maryland rapper, so we also get the soft-focus Can’t Win Em All and the hyperpop Butterfly Kisses,Aminé – 13 Months of Sunshine Out now Portland rapper Aminé follows up 2023’s excellent Kaytraminé, a collaborative album with producer Kaytranada, with this fifth solo album.
On recent single Familiar, he unpicks a failed relationship over sunny, buoyant hip-hop breaks, while the harder Arc de Triomphe samples the Streets’ Has It Come to This?.Mø – Plæygirl Out now On this fourth album, Danish alt-popper Mø goes back to basics, stripping her collaborators down to a core team including producer Ronni Vindahl.That sense of cohesion is reflected in Lose Yourself and Who Said, which both house Mø’s powerhouse vocals in rugged songs.MCThe QuiltersNetflix This charming short documentary introduces inmates at a Missouri maximum security prison who have dedicated their time to creating patchwork quilts for foster children.Inside their windowless space, the inmates are determined to create something beautiful.
The Music & Meditation BBC SoundsMarking Mental Health Awareness Week, this new series of Radio 3’s guided meditation show sees new age luminaries including Deepak Chopra and Light Watkins produce engaging 10-minute sessions aimed at helping listeners focus and stay present.The Art of SoundResident AdvisorElectronic music site Resident Advisor’s new series is a fascinating insight into the ways that cutting-edge sound systems produce loud and immensely physical dancefloor experiences, starting with the Horst festival’s innovation – placing speakers on the ceiling.Ammar Kalia
Australian supermarket cucumber pickles taste test: ‘I didn’t think any would be this powerful’
Baby cucumbers, dill gherkins and snacky cornichons are put to a blind taste test by Nicholas Jordan and friends, who find there’s a big leap from sour and salty to ‘unnervingly unnatural’I love pickles. I almost always order pickles and/or ferments on restaurant menus, my fridge is regularly stocked with a zoological range of pickle colours and smells, and I find the idea of eating more than 20 different pickles in a single hour thrilling.But this wasn’t a taste test of pickles: it was a taste test of supermarket aisle cucumber pickles, the Wes Anderson films of the stinky food world. Sure, they’ve got some character, but step into that theatre and everyone knows exactly what they’re about to get, and it isn’t depth.The blind taste test consisted of me and 11 friends eating 21 cucumber pickles
Layer up: spring fillings for filo pies
Filo pies are my go-to for entertaining, but what are the best spring fillings? The wonderful thing about filo pies and tarts is that they look fancy even when they’re knocked up from just a handful of ingredients, they require little more than a green salad to please and, much like the rest of us, they really do benefit from some downtime. “They’re even better at room temperature because the flavour evolves,” says Rosie Kellett, author of In for Dinner, which also makes them perfect for dodging any last-minute entertaining scrambles.Kellett likes to wrap as many spring greens as possible in filo, along with cheese and hot honey butter. “The key to getting a really delicious filo tart or pie is a flavoured butter,” she says, so, rather than simply painting melted butter between every filo sheet so it goes nice and crisp in the oven, she also adds honey and harissa. (In a similar vein, if your pie or tart involves mushrooms, take your lead from Feast columnist Georgina Hayden, who uses butter flavoured with thyme and Marmite
Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for gildas in carriages | Quick and easy
Gildas are such a lovely pre-dinner snack: really good olives and anchovies on a stick, with any number of variations, such as artichokes, sun-dried tomatoes, bits of cheese … The one I had most recently, at Brett in Glasgow, was beyond wonderful, and featured chicken fat-topped croutons and homemade green chilli sauce with plump Perelló olives and anchovies. Inspired by this, I made a lemon-spiked green chilli and artichoke tapenade for hot focaccia, topped with the same excellent olives and the best anchovies.I don’t usually specify brands in my recipes, but when there are so few ingredients, it really is worth getting the ones recommended below as a treat. They’re very rich, too, so a few go a long way.Prep 15 min Cook 20 min Serves 6 as a starter or pre-drink snack250g focaccia 125g jarred artichokes in olive oil (drained weight), plus 25ml oil from the jar1 tsp sea salt flakes Juice of ½ lemon1-2 large green chillies, depending on your tolerance to heat150g tinned green olives (drained weight; from a 350g tin) – I like Perelló1-2 47½g tins anchovies in oil (27g drained weight) – I like OrtizHeat the oven to 200C (180C fan)/390F/gas 6
‘For indulgence, brioche is king’ – the sweet, buttery bread stealing sourdough’s crown
Once an indicator of wealth, but for years stuck in burger-bun purgatory, the enriched dough is being embraced by a new generation of chefs and bakers for its versatility and delicious complexity‘You shouldn’t have to fight your sandwich,” says Sacha Yonan, his voice rising to compete with the noise of London’s Soho on a Tuesday morning. Within half an hour, queues for the sandwiches at Crunch, the sandwich shop he co-founded earlier this year, will be snaking out of its doors. Its secret? Fresh brioche, which comes toasted and filled with ingredients that give the place its name, including southern-fried chicken, baby pickles and lettuce. “We love a sourdough,” says Joni Francisco, Crunch’s head of food. “But if you’re talking about sandwiches, then you need something with an easier mouthfeel
Richard Goodman obituary
My brother Richard Goodman, who has died aged 87, played a leading role in introducing New Zealand wine to Britain, beginning in the early 1980s.At that time, New Zealand wine was practically unobtainable in the UK and was certainly not to be found on supermarket shelves. Today, it is top of the league table in Britain in terms of sales of white wines by value.Richard moved to London in 1980, and took up a position with Cooks New Zealand Wine, the first NZ producer to venture into this tough, nascent market. In 1986 he transferred to Montana, a bigger producer now known as Brancott Estate
How to make the perfect pasta al limone – recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to make the perfect …
Al limone (no translation needed) is perhaps the perfect primo for this time of year, when we’re still waiting for the produce to catch up with the temperatures. The zesty citrus sings of the south, of heavy yellow fruit against a blue Mediterranean sky, while the butter gives just enough richness to make up for any chilly spring breezes. As Nigella observes, this is a dish that can “equally offer summer sprightliness or winter comfort”.Although I happen to agree with Daniel Gritzer when he writes on Serious Eats that “a satiny butter sauce like this pairs better with fresh noodles”, I wouldn’t turn down Catherine Phipps and Nigella Lawson’s dried linguine, nor Rachel Roddy’s dried (or fresh!) tagliatelle in her second book, Two Kitchens, nor even the River Cafe Classic Italian Cookbook’s dried pici. (Pici, Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers explain, “is a handmade pasta, made with plain flour and water, which is only found in Tuscany” – though bucatini, they allow, may be substituted)
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