From Champions to A Town Called Malice: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

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Going out: Cinema Champions Out now Since making a name for himself as a gross-out master with Dumb and Dumber (directed with his brother Peter), Bobby Farrelly’s films have been a mixed bag. He’s on familiar turf with this comedy about a short-tempered coach (Woody Harrelson) who must train a team of basketball players with learning disabilities as part of his community service. 65 Out now Science-fiction action thriller written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, and starring, surprisingly, Adam Driver as a pilot who crash-lands on an unknown planet, only to discover he is somehow stranded on Earth – 65m years ago. Scream VI Out now Almost 30 years ago, horror director Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street) teamed up with witty teen drama writer Kevin Williamson (Dawson’s Creek). The result was Scream (1996), and it birthed a juggernaut of a self-aware slasher franchise. This latest instalment sees Ghostface head to New York. BFI Flare BFI Southbank, London, and online, to 26 March Flare is the BFI’s festival for LGBTQ+ film in the UK. Highlights include the closing night film Drifter, Hannes Hirsch’s coming-of-age film about a young man who follows his boyfriend to Berlin only to be abandoned by him after a few weeks. Catherine Bray Going out: Gigs Soweto Kinch and London Symphony Orchestra Printworks, London, 16 March A rare full performance of White Juju, saxophonist, rapper and genre-spanning composer Soweto Kinch’s sweeping poetic take on the crises and contradictions of modern Britain, with his powerful jazz quartet and the LSO’s chamber orchestra – segueing swing, ragtime, improv, classical music, hip-hop, spoken word, and a lot more. John Fordham Il Trittico Theatre Royal, Glasgow, 11, 15 & 18 March; Festival Theatre Edinburgh, 22 & 25 March The one-act operas that make up Puccini’s Il Trittico – Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi – are regularly performed individually. Productions of all three together, as the composer intended, are much rarer, but David McVicar directs the triptych for Scottish Opera. Andrew Clements Tom Grennan 11 to 23 March; tour starts Cardiff With his third album, What Ifs & Maybes, due in June, pop-rock upstart Grennan takes the opportunity to road-test some of the songs. Recent football-adjacent dance anthem Lionheart (Fearless) should get a suitably sweaty reaction. Michael Cragg Berwyn 14 to 27 March; tour starts Glasgow The rapper, producer and songwriter takes his emotionally raw songs on the road in support of single 3450. A recent feature on producer Fred Again’s Actual Life album should also help him build on his appearance on the BBC’s Sound of 2021 poll. MC Going out: Art Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers Royal Academy, London 17 March to 18 June Collage, assemblage, textiles and patchwork summon up memory and resistance in this survey of Black art in the former slave-holding US states from the mid-20th century to now. Those who have taken up found stuff to stitch together an alternative art tradition include Lonnie Holley, Thornton Dial and Marlene Bennett Jones. Empowering Art Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, 12 March to 30 July The Pacific north-west has a great artistic tradition that predates the US and Canada. The region’s intricately patterned masks, wooden buildings and sacred poles are among the most powerful indigenous art of the Americas. Today, that heritage is being reinvented and politicised by Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Morgan Asoyuf, Danielle Morsette and more. Deep Horizons Mima, Middlesbrough, to 18 June Tony Robinson, TV historian and Blackadder’s Baldrick, is among the curators invited to delve into the collections of Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art and the Roberts Collection to create this show. Other deep divers include Dr Julietta Singh, maritime pilot Geoff Taylor and the artists Liliane Lijn and Fiona Crisp. The Ugly Duchess National Gallery, London, 16 March to 11 June Renaissance art was not all harmony and beauty, this exhibition shows, but also revelled in the grotesque. Leonardo da Vinci’s frankly disturbing caricature drawings are the most extraordinary things here. The show centres on the painting by Quentin Massys, nicknamed The Ugly Duchess, that inspired a Tenniel illustration for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Jonathan Jones Going out: Stage Reflections of an Indian Dancer York Theatre Royal, 17 March; touring to 1 April A solo show from classical Indian dancer Sooraj Subramaniam that weaves together dance and monologue. Subramaniam explores the forms he has spent his career mastering – Bharatanatyam, Kathak and Odissi – against a backdrop of insightful stories from his own life. Lyndsey Winship Jayde Adams 11 March to 25 June; tour starts London The Bristolian standup – and recent star of Strictly – has a way with a striking show title. Following previous offering The Ballad of Kylie Jenner’s Old Face comes Men, I Can Save You, in which she archly poses as a self-help guru sympathising with the plight of straight, white blokes disfranchised by wokedom. Rachel Aroesti Black Superhero Royal Court theatre, London, 14 March to 29 April A brutal and funny portrait of one man’s life as it spirals out of control, careering between fantasy and reality. The debut play from actor and activist Danny Lee Wynter. Miriam Gillinson Top Girls Liverpool Everyman, to 25 March Suba Das directs the 40th-anniversary production of Caryl Churchill’s strange and powerful play, which opens on a fantasy dinner sequence and explores the cost of success for a woman in a man’s world. MG Staying in: Streaming A Town Called Malice 16 March, Now Nick Love is behind this new 1980s-set drama about an out-of-favour south London gangland family trying to revive their fortunes on the Costa Del Crime. Lock, Stock’s Jason Flemyng plays patriarch Albert, while Goonies star Martha Plimpton is matriarch Mint Ma Lord. Swarm 17 March, Prime Video A new Donald Glover project – but this time the Atlanta creator is somehow not the headline talent. Swarm, a thriller about a music fan (Dominique Fishback) whose fixation with a pop idol takes a disturbing turn, has been penned in part by a 24-year-old Harvard grad called Malia Obama. Extrapolations 17 March, Apple TV+ TV has been attracting Hollywood-grade talent for a while now, but even so this anthology series boasts a noteworthy cast: Meryl Streep, Sienna Miller, Diane Lane, Edward Norton, Tobey Maguire, Marion Cotillard, Forest Whitaker and more star in a series of interconnected tales about the toll of the climate crisis. Jerk 14 March, 10pm, BBC Three/iPlayer Tim Renkow’s PC-baiting sitcom about an American man with cerebral palsy determined to mess with well-meaning (and not so well-meaning) Britons returns for a third uncomfortable season, with our protagonist leaving behind his puppetry degree to become a movie star, drug mule and government adviser. RA Staying in: Games Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse Out now, Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4/5, Xbox A remake of a uniquely chilling Japanese horror game about photographing hostile ghosts. Guaranteed to spook you. Valheim Out 16 March, Xbox This Viking-themed survival game has been lauded by PC players for its atmosphere, crunchy combat and fun construction. You can build everything from castles to harbours, but be ready to defend them. Keza MacDonald Staying in: Albums Fever Ray – Radical Romantics Out now Swedish experimentalist Karin Dreijer returns with a first album in five and a half years. Radical Romantics continues their passion for fusing the tender with the sinister, as showcased on the wobbly recent single Kandy. Production assistance comes from brother Olof and Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Miley Cyrus – Endless Summer Vacation Out now The chameleonic Cyrus has veered from controversy-baiting hip-hop (2013’s Bangerz) to floaty folk-pop (2017’s Younger Now) to the bleached-mullet rock goddess of 2020’s Plastic Hearts. Billed as a love letter to Los Angeles, this eighth album sees her settling into sun-kissed pop-rock. Dutch Uncles – True Entertainment Out now On their sixth album, Stockport’s answer to Talking Heads continue to indulge their passion for atypical time signatures. On Tropigala (2 to 5) they slyly reimagine Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 as a jerky ode to just about scraping by, while Poppin undulates around a stuttering synth configuration. Nia Archives – Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against tha Wall Out now Billed as “six different moods soundtracking the recent chapter in my life”, the third EP by the recent Brit nominee finds her exploring kinetic jungle bangers (Baianá) and more downcast drum’n’bass shufflers. She could go anywhere from here. MC Staying in: Brain food Dwelling Podcast As the housing crisis in Britain worsens, host Marnie Woodmeade tells the stories of those who are looking to subvert traditional living practices and find their homes elsewhere. Among the fascinating interviewees are people living as river guardians and van-dwellers. ASMR at the Museum YouTube Whispered narration, rifling pages and painstaking conservation are all key in this online series curated by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, which has filmed the handling of its vast archive to hopefully trigger a soothing ASMR response. Documentary: Jack B Yeats – The Man Who Painted Ireland 14 March, Sky Arts Brother of the poet WB Yeats, painter Jack is the subject of this thoughtful documentary, charting his lesser-known life and career capturing the rolling vistas of his home in west Ireland. Writer Colm Tóibín narrates. Ammar Kalia

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