Going Out: Cinema
Jurassic World Dominion
Out now
The gang’s all here: Sam Neill’s palaeontologist, Laura Dern’s palaeobotanist and Jeff Goldblum’s chaotic maths bloke, back together in the same film for the first time since 1993’s Jurassic Park. They join the less lovable later characters in the franchise – played by Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard – for further dino adventures.
Il Buco
Out now
You might know Michelangelo Frammartino from Le Quattro Volte, his arresting 2010 Italian arthouse hit featuring some cute goats. Il Buco (The Hole) is similarly lovely: notionally about a 1961 potholing expedition in Calabria, it’s really a philosophical meditation on the nature of time.
All My Friends Hate Me
Out now
Is there any more painful form of self-loathing than the kind that is totally justified? Toxic university friendships are put under the microscope in this funny British horror about a reunion of some fairly nightmarish people, directed by Andrew Gaynord (Stath Lets Flats).
Leave No Traces
Out now
Poland’s entry for this year’s Oscars is a tough watch at times, as befits a procedural about the death of a student as a result of a brutal police beating, but Jan P Matuszyński’s sobering drama is moving, if a little long, clocking in at an epic 160 minutes. Catherine Bray
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Going Out: Gigs
Remi Wolf
Koko, London, 14 June; Academy 3, Manchester, 16 June
The California maximalist’s brand of DayGlo pop cannot be contained, to the point where Wolf has already rereleased last October’s debut album, Juno. These live shows celebrate one of music’s most exciting recent discoveries. Michael Cragg
Isle of Wight festival
Seaclose Park, Newport, 16 to 19 June
Seemingly plucked at random from the playlists of XFM and Radio 2, this year’s Isle of Wight lineup finds the Fratellis rubbing shoulders with Jessie Ware, and Wet Leg sharing a stage with the Kooks. Lewis Capaldi, Kasabian and Muse make up the headliners. MC
Pat Metheny
Apollo Hammersmith, London, 12 June
Guitar great Pat Metheny’s exciting Side-Eye trio finally make UK landfall, with Thundercat/Flying Lotus keyboard newcomer Chris Fishman, and New Orleans drummer Joe Dyson. Metheny’s country-tinged classics, edgy jazz improv and groove-bending all go into this rare mix. John Fordham
Catamorphosis
Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 15 June; Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, 18 June
First performed by the Berlin Philharmonic during lockdown last year, Anna Thorvaldsdóttir’s 20-minute orchestral piece, inspired by the fragile relationship we have with our planet, arrives in Britain as one of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s centenary commissions. Andrew Clements
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Going Out: Art
Penny World
ICA, London, to 18 September
This radical artist portrays pain, trauma, injustice – all in media with a low financial outlay. Whether drawing or painting or using free digital painting software, she makes art from an outsider’s viewpoint in which poverty and mental illness are faced explicitly. She’s also a prolific poet. Raw, confessional and urgent stuff.
Dürer: The Making of a Renaissance Master
Barber Institute, Birmingham, 17 June to 25 September
The bisexual German genius – whose self-portrait as a Christ-like, messianic figure is one of the most haunting and unsettling works of art ever created – gets a survey of his early career that includes his saucy print The Men’s Bathhouse. See how one of the most imaginative artists ever got started.
Whitstable Biennale
Various venues, to 19 June
The oyster bars, pubs and wharfs of Whitstable make pleasant settings for its low-key and relaxed Biennale. Expect everything from a video in a cargo container to performances by the sea. They all meditate on the theme of Afterwardness. With Jade Montserrat, Sarah Craske, Dipesh Pandyah, Jennet Thomas and more.
The Lock-In
London pubs and the Barbican, to 30 July
This is a boozy answer to The Clock, the famous artwork made by Christian Marclay from thousands of film clips. Artist Stanley Schtinter has created a 96-hour compilation of scenes from EastEnders that feature the Queen Vic pub. And it is showing in a series of pubs, some very characterful. Jonathan Jones
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Going Out: Stage
The Glass Menagerie
The Duke of York’s theatre, London, to 27 August
Tennessee Williams’s mesmerising play receives a bold new staging from Jeremy Herrin. Amy Adams stars as the southern belle trapped between the past and present. Miriam Gillinson
Playboy of the West Indies
Birmingham Rep, to 2 July
Mustapha Matura’s musical take on the classic Irish play The Playboy of the Western World is set in the Caribbean. Part of the Birmingham 2022 festival, it stars Durone Stokes and Nicole Sawyerr. MG
A Festival of Korean Dance 2022
The Place, London, 17 to 25 June
There’s way more than K-pop going on in the Korean dance scene. This annual festival explores some of the country’s more leftfield choreographers, including a piece based on the movement of the tongue and one by Jinyeob Cha, who choreographed the 2018 Winter Olympics ceremonies and has been a judge on Korea’s version of Dancing With the Stars. Lyndsey Winship
Bristol Comedy Garden
Durdham Park, 15 to 19 June
It’s hard to imagine a more efficient way to consume the current cream of the British comedy crop than this open-air festival. Old favourites (Al Murray, Ardal O’Hanlon) meet up-and-comers (Chloe Petts, Sophie Duker) plus James Acaster, Rose Matafeo, Tim Key, Aisling Bea and more. Rachel Aroesti
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Staying In: Streaming
God’s Favourite Idiot
15 June, Netflix
A jovial take on the end times comes courtesy of this new series – half sitcom, half high-concept comedy – featuring hilarious Melissa McCarthy alongside her real-life husband (and the show’s creator) Ben Falcone. He plays a man who starts glowing, tasked with preventing the apocalypse.
Sherwood
13 June, 9pm, BBC One & iPlayer
James Graham – the writer behind Quiz and the Cumberbatch-as-Cummings drama Brexit: The Uncivil War – returns to his Nottingham roots for this fact-based thriller about a mining village community scarred by undercover policing. Stars David Morrissey, Lesley Manville and Adeel Akhtar.
The Lazarus Project
16 June, 9pm, Sky Max & Now
Time-loop dramas are having a moment, but few give the genre as nightmarish a sheen as this series. I May Destroy You’s Paapa Essiedu plays a man who becomes embroiled in a secret organisation with the power to turn back time – but only at moments when the world is hurtling towards complete destruction.
The Lake
17 June, Amazon Prime Video
This comedy-drama mines knockabout fun from familial dysfunction. When Justin (Jordan Gavaris) reunites with his teenage daughter, he plans to make up for lost time at his family’s lakeside hideaway – only to find that his father has left it to his irritatingly perfect stepsister, Maisy-May (Julia Stiles). RA
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Staying In: Games
Mario Strikers: Battle League
Out now, Nintendo Switch
The hotly anticipated new Mario soccer game offers five-a-side starring all your favourite Super Mario characters, augmented with ridiculous special moves and an intriguing online tournament mode. For those bored by Fifa and its adherence to authenticity, this is surely the beautiful game.
Cooking Mama: Cuisine!
Out 17 June, Apple Arcade
The hugely popular cooking puzzler returns in smartphone form, challenging players to pick ingredients and cook up delicious meals within a strict time limit. Offering a menu of mouth-watering mini-games, it’s bringing fresh ideas to a series we’ve dined on since the days of the Nintendo DS. Keza MacDonald
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Staying In: Albums
George Ezra – Gold Rush Kid
Out now
While the first two albums from the big-voiced 29-year-old were inspired by his travels, Ezra’s more inward-looking third album embraces the present, a move instigated by lockdown. It’s still chockful of what fans have come to know and love, however, with lead single Anyone for You (Tiger Lily) a beatific, festival-ready singalong.
Tove Styrke – Hard
Out now
Swedish Idol 2009 third-place runner‑up Styrke returns with her fourth album, and the first since 2018’s Sway. While that eight-track collection offered up restrained, soothing electropop, Hard aims for all-caps emotion. Single Hardcore, for example, features shredded vocals, while the effervescent YouYouYou can barely contain its lust.
BTS – Proof
Out now
The planet’s biggest boyband celebrate nine years together with a lavish three-CD boxset of hits, rarities, demos and new songs. So as well as recent global chart-toppers Dynamite and Butter, you also get a whistlestop run through their career, from early recording Born Singer to latest single Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment).
Carrie Underwood – Denim & Rhinestones
Out now
Since winning American Idol in 2005, country star Carrie Underwood has scored four US No 1 albums and scooped up eight Grammys. She’s famous for her narrative-heavy heartbreak anthems (step forward 2006’s classic Before He Cheats), and this, her ninth album, features the soapy She Don’t Know, about a scorned woman who meets her husband’s mistress. MC
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Staying In: Brain food
Reel Britannia
BritBox
This four-part series explores modern British cinema, as told by its finest directors. Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Stephen Frears and others explore how film has portrayed the social issues and political ills of the UK since the 1960s.
Las Culturistas
Podcast
Comics Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang host this long-running culture-buffs series, dissecting developments in the arts through irreverent yet surprisingly informative chat. Recent highlights include a three-parter on the 300 tracks of the global songbook.
From the Basement
YouTube
Nigel Godrich’s From the Basement series showcased intimate performances and stage-side chatter from some of the world’s biggest bands when it launched in 2007. After a 13-year break, the series returns with sets from Warpaint, Caribou and more. Ammar Kalia
