Going out: Cinema Cassius X: Becoming Ali Out now This documentary details Ali’s early years as Cassius Clay, on a journey to becoming an activist, civil rights campaigner and intellectual, through his friendships with people such as Malcolm X and spiritual awakening after studying the teachings of Elijah Muhammad. Sumotherhood Out now Who would have imagined 2023 would gift us a comedy featuring So Solid Crew’s Megaman, Jeremy Corbyn, Lethal Bizzle, Jennifer Saunders and Ed Sheeran? But thanks to Adam Deacon, lo, it has come to pass. A follow-up to 2011’s Anuvahood, Deacon is half of a duo hatching harebrained get-rich-quick schemes. The Miracle Club Out now Set in the 1960s and starring Laura Linney, Kathy Bates, Maggie Smith and Stephen Rea, this drama from Thaddeus O’Sullivan sees a group of working-class women from the seaside town of Ballygar in Ireland head off on the trip of a lifetime: to Lourdes in France, the site of many a reported miracle. Friday the 13th (rerelease) Out now Time to revisit the place it all began – namely Crystal Lake, the summer camp with a sad secret, which is about to make itself felt via the time-honoured method of slaughtering a bunch of horny teens. Worth watching, not least because it’ll help you get the first scary movie quiz in Scream right, unlike poor old Drew Barrymore. Catherine Bray Going out: Gigs Maisie Peters 17 October to 3 November; tour starts Glasgow Culminating in her biggest headline show to date, this tour celebrates Peters’ chart-topping album, The Good Witch. Expect widescreen pop-rock with Taylor Swift-esque lyrical precision, a lot of chest-clenching and exuberant pogoing. Luke Combs Touring to 20 October; tour starts Belfast Country star Combs scored a huge US hit with his cover of Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car, making Chapman the first Black woman to score a country No 1 with a solo composition. Combs isn’t doing badly in the UK, either, as this arena tour in support of March’s Gettin’ Old attests. Michael Cragg Christian McBride’s New Jawn Ronnie Scott’s, London, 16 & 17 October Philadelphia’s Christian McBride has been a star-accompanying jazz bass great for three decades, but as an engaging bandleader he also draws together swing, Latin music, soul-blues and more. His quartet, New Jawn, includes postbop saxist Marcus Strickland, and New York drums star Nasheet Waits. John Fordham Transfigured Night Milton Court, London, 18 October Violinist Viktoria Mullova promises “an immersive journey into a nocturnal forest” as a prelude to her performance of Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, with samples, choreography and projections of the poetry that inspired Schoenberg’s work. Andrew Clements Going out: Art Beyond the Page MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, to 28 January Miniature painting flourished in the Mughal empire in the 16th and 17th centuries as court artists fused Islamic and European styles to decorate books with portraits and battles. Today this south-Asian tradition is echoed by many contemporary artists. El Anatsui Tate Modern, London, to 14 April The great Ghanian artist of recycled beauty brings something special to the vast space of the Tate’s Turbine Hall. El Anatsui creates painterly shimmering spectacles of texture and colour using found materials from everyday life. What will he do given Tate’s biggest space to play with? The result should be stunning. Sir Quentin Blake Hastings Contemporary, to 12 November New drawings by the much-loved illustrator whose spindly figures have put faces to Roald Dahl’s characters. He may be as much a part of your childhood as mine. At 90, the inexhaustible Blake is still imagining fantastic and funny worlds in the three suites unveiled here. Hiroshi Sugimoto Hayward Gallery, London, to 7 January One of the most artistically compelling photographers of our time, and perhaps of all time, Sugimoto has an uncanny sense of what photography is: a stilling, a freezing of light that, according to the French theorist Roland Barthes, can be deathly. Sugimoto sees death in everything from waxworks to seascapes. Jonathan Jones Going out: Stage Tig Notaro Brighton, 17 October; Manchester, 19 October; touring to 26 October In 2012, four days after a breast cancer diagnosis, Notaro delivered a set that catapulted her to comedy ubiquity. These days, the 52-year-old’s material is (thankfully) more mundane; her new tour mines material from family, celebrity and dreamboat firefighters. Rachel Aroesti Trueman and the Arsonists Roundhouse, London, 18 October to 8 November Simon Stephens and a stellar creative team rework Max Frisch’s exploration of how moral lethargy can invite evil in. With songs by the ever-thoughtful Chris Thorpe. Transform festival Various locations, Leeds, to 22 October Featuring 13 companies from 12 countries, including a show based on phone conversations with young people living under the Iranian dictatorship (Songs for No One) and a piece created from hundreds of submissions from young people in Leeds and Reykjavík (Secrets). Miriam Gillinson Take Me Somewhere Various venues, Glasgow, to 28 October Louise Ahl creates an experimental opera with bespoke scents, Eve Stainton does live welding, Carolina Bianchi drugs herself on stage, Sonya Lindfors imagines a dance of decolonisation, and Ashanti Harris invites the audience to take part in a ritual of joy and healing. Lyndsey Winship Staying in: Streaming The Burning Girls Paramount+, 19 October The presence of Samantha Morton in this dramatisation of CJ Tudor’s 2021 novel should elevate it beyond the ordinary. She plays a vicar who arrives at a countryside parish haunted by Protestant martyrs – and more than a few modern demons, too. Bodies Netflix, 19 October The genre mashup has reinvigorated music – can it do the same for TV? This ambitious adaptation of Si Spencer’s graphic novel fuses period drama, police procedural and sci-fi as four detectives from three centuries attempt to solve the same recurring murder. Breeders Now/Sky Comedy, 20 October, 9pm Seeing stressed-out parents on screen is a special kind of catharsis, but Breeders goes one step beyond the usual blunders. In its fourth and final series, Ally and Paul (Daisy Haggard and Martin Freeman) decide whether to finally end their marriage. Upload Amazon Prime, 20 October There’s high-concept comedy and then there’s Upload, the digital afterlife-set sitcom from Greg Daniels that gets more mind-boggling with each outing. Season three returns, with protagonist Nathan – or rather, thanks to a mistakenly activated back-up copy, Nathans – attempting to foil an election-swaying scam by his ex-girlfriend’s evil father. RA Staying in: Games Silent Hope PC, Switch; out now It seems like isometric Japanese role-playing games are enjoying a comeback. Silent Hope from cult developer Marvelous, is a storybook action adventure following seven heroes who set out to save a princess from a prison made of tears. It’s a charming retro yarn with compelling combat. Dotage PC; out now If you love town-building games such as The Settlers or Civilization you’re going to enjoy this, from lone coder Michele Pirovano. You’re the village elder looking to set up a new home for your ragtag community in the face of a coming apocalypse. It mixes elements of board games and strategy sims, and the teeny visuals are ridiculously cute. Keith Stuart Staying in: Albums Holly Humberstone – Paint My Bedroom Black Out now After a string of EPs, and having scooped the Brit Rising Star award in 2022, British singer-songwriter Humberstone finally releases her debut album. Co-created with Rob Milton (the 1975, Easy Life), it’s a dark-hued amalgam of electronic pop (Antichrist), indie (Room Service) and soaring, 80s-tinged MOR. The Drums – Jonny Out now Essentially a solo studio project for frontman Jonny Pierce, the Drums’ sixth album is packed full of melodic, vaguely lo-fi jangle pop. Highlights include the skittering Obvious, complete with one of the year’s best choruses, and dramatic lead single, I Want it All. L’Rain – I Killed Your Dog Out now Brooklyn-based genre polymath L’Rain, AKA Taja Cheek, returns with her third album and follow-up to 2021’s critically lauded Fatigue. On the bluntly titled I Killed Your Dog, Cheek explores folk, “dad rock” and electronic textures, as showcased on the excellent, Strokes-esque Pet Rock. Troye Sivan – Something to Give Each Other Out now It makes sense that Australian pop star Troye Sivan dropped Rush, the lead single from this third album, in the middle of summer. A sweat-soaked banger, it came with a flesh-baring video to match. That sense of freedom continues on an album focused on “Party after party, after party after after party”. MC Staying in: Brain food Ballers: Ball Or Nothing BBC iPlayer This charming series follows the fortunes of Scotland’s only professional basketball team, Glasgow Rocks, as they contend with a dire funding situation and try to train up a batch of homesick rookies flown over from the US. T&J Podcast Podcasts don’t get more esoteric than this detailed exploration of the sixth-century Byzantine romance between Empress Theodora and the Emperor Justinian. Host Christine Laskowski keeps things fast-paced and dramatic, painting an immersive picture of their succession. BFI Archive Online As the BFI London film festival draws to a close for another year, the cinematic institution has a regularly updated online archive of documentaries, film and TV to delve into, encompassing everything from newsreels to nostalgic adverts. Ammar Kalia