Going out: Cinema<\/p>\n
Disclosure Day The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford Time and Water In the Hand of Dante Going out: GigsSax appeal \u2026 Kamasi Washington. Photograph: Vincent Haycock<\/p>\n Kamasi Washington, Mulatu Astatke TRNSMT SANSARA Chronicle Kaytranada Going out: ArtHenry Moore\u2019s Family Group, 1945. Photograph: Henry Moore Foundation\/DACShenry-moore.org<\/p>\n Moore\/Freud Anish Kapoor Summer Exhibition Hold to This Earth Going out: StageAfterthoughts for the day \u2026 Richard Ayoade. Photograph: Gerald Matzka\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Richard Ayoade Birmingham Royal Ballet: 20th-Century Masterpieces A to B The Long Drop Staying in: StreamingMeet me in the jailhouse \u2026 Sam Worthington in I Will Find You. Photograph: Christos Kalohoridis\/Netflix<\/p>\n I Will Find You Free Nelson Mandela The American Revolution Sugar Staying in: GamesFairy tale \u2026 The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales. Photograph: Square Enix<\/p>\n The Adventures of\u00a0Elliot: The Millennium Tales Denshattack! Staying in: AlbumsGum for hire \u2026 Olivia Rodrigo.<\/p>\n Olivia Rodrigo \u2013 You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in Love Bebe Rexha \u2013 Dirty Blonde Kelsey Lu \u2013 So Help Me God Ruel \u2013 Kicking My Feet & Screaming Staying in: Brain foodThe Side Dish podcast. Photograph: –<\/p>\n
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A new Steven Spielberg<\/a> movie is always an event, whether he\u2019s in blockbusting Jurassic Park mode or gunning for Oscars. This new effort starring Emily Blunt, Josh O\u2019Connor, Colin Firth and Colman Domingo sees the film-maker wrangling with a fave topic \u2013 UFOs \u2013 for an epic sci-fi drama involving whistleblowing, conspiracy theories and shady corporations.<\/p>\n
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Peter Mullan stars in an offbeat Scottish comedy drama about a local historian who likes to dress the part to deliver lectures to tourists about his obscure ancestor Sir Douglas Weatherford, until a Game of Thrones-type TV show rocks up to film a new series.<\/p>\n
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The personal is political and poetical in this Icelandic documentary about the fast-vanishing ice in writer Andri Sn\u00e6r Magnason\u2019s homeland, as family history and folk tradition are used to trace climate catastrophe.<\/p>\n
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This drama from Julian Schnabel (The\u00a0Diving Bell and the Butterfly) sees\u00a0Oscar Isaac star in a double role, playing literary legend Dante, as he writes The Divine Comedy in Italy, and also author Nick Tosches in New York, who is asked by a mafia don to confirm the authenticity of a Dante manuscript. Catherine Bray<\/p>\n
Royal Festival Hall, London, 14 June, 17 June
The Harry Styles-curated Meltdown festival\u2019s 40-plus gigs include the unique jazz visions of formidable LA saxophonist-composer Kamasi Washington and Ethiopian great Mulatu Astatke. Washington plays John Coltrane and Miles Davis, and his new album Fearless Movement (14 June), while Astatke celebrates six proud decades as the \u201cfather of Ethio-jazz\u201d (17 June). John Fordham<\/p>\n
Glasgow Green, 19 to 21 June
With headliners Richard Ashcroft, Kasabian and Lewis Capaldi, there are several exciting acts to be found elsewhere at this year\u2019s Scottish blowout. Rose Gray brings some dance-pop energy, while CMAT, Jacob Alon and the Last Dinner Party add some off-kilter sparkle. Michael Cragg<\/p>\n
Snape Maltings, Suffolk, 19 June
Aldeburgh festival puts new music and emerging artists centre stage. This multimedia choral-theatre piece should be a highlight of the 2026 edition: a collaboration between rapidly ascendant composers Alex Ho and Rockey Sun Keting, and author Yilin Wang, it will be performed by the award-winning SANSARA choir. Flora Willson<\/p>\n
The O2, London, 18 June; touring to 23 June
Released with minimal warning last summer, Haitian-Canadian DJ and producer Kaytranada\u2019s fourth album, Ain\u2019t No Damn Way!, was created specifically for workouts and dancing. So make sure you\u2019re wearing comfortable shoes and have warmed-up nicely for this short arena tour. MC<\/p>\n
Hastings Contemporary, 13 June to 13 September
This show brings together two of the\u00a020th century\u2019s most important artistic\u00a0figures, sculptor Henry Moore and painter Lucian Freud, for an in-depth exploration of how they both used ideas of family bonds and intimate relationships as artistic fuel.<\/p>\n
Hayward Gallery, London, 16 June to\u00a018 October
One of the biggest names in British art returns to London for this major show of absolutely enormous mirrored sculptures, vertigo-inducing voids seemingly cut into the floor, and objects covered in Vantablack, \u201cthe blackest known substance in the world\u201d. Big, bombastic, ambitious, it\u2019s Anish Kapoor: you know what you\u2019re getting, and you know it\u2019s going to be fun.<\/p>\n
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 16 June to 23 August
Every year, thousands of hopeful amateurs send their work to the RA in\u00a0the hope of being included in the world\u2019s oldest open-submission exhibition. If you\u2019ve ever wanted to see Barry from next door\u2019s wonky self-portraits next to a massive Tracey Emin sculpture, this is your chance.<\/p>\n
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 13 June to 18 April
Sixty works by more than 30 Indigenous artists feature in what\u2019s possibly the biggest ever celebration of Indigenous North American art in Europe. Sculptures by the likes of Rose B Simpson and Jeffrey Gibson deal with the legacy of colonialism and the\u00a0enduring spirit of Indigenous communities. Eddy Frankel<\/p>\n
New Theatre<\/a> Oxford, 19 June; touring to 15 July
With a surprisingly diverse CV and wilfully strange sense of humour, the\u00a0writer, director, comedian, presenter and actor certainly qualifies as one of our most idiosyncratic national treasures. Now he\u2019s touring to dispense with wisdom from Afterthoughts, his recent tongue-in-cheek collection of aphorisms and observations. Rachel\u00a0Aroesti<\/p>\n
Birmingham Hippodrome, 19 & 20 June
This triple bill includes a rare revival of a landmark dance piece from 1932, The Green Table by pioneering German choreographer Kurt Jooss. It\u2019s an anti-war ballet, where diplomats gather around the titular table to decide the fates of their citizens, also known as a \u201cdance of death in eight scenes\u201d. Lyndsey Winship<\/p>\n
Soho theatre, London, to 3 July
In the smal; upstairs theatre here, you get to see new plays. Next up in a space that\u2019s launched so many stars is a coming-of-age romcom by Tia-Renee Mullings. Made with a Caribbean south London soundtrack and an award-winning director, nothing is going to plan for Amani and Brianna, but as summer comes around, they\u2019re determined to make the best of it. Kate Wyver<\/p>\n
Citizens theatre, Glasgow, to 20 June
The truth is just out of reach in this whisky-soaked true-crime thriller. Linda McLean adapts The Long Drop from the novel by acclaimed crime writer, Denise Mina, which has come full circle as the story initially began life as a play. We\u2019re in Glasgow, 1957, drinking with serial killer Peter Manuel. Packed with gangsters and gossip, this production promises a dark and\u00a0gripping ride. KW<\/p>\n
Netflix, 18 June
Harlan Coben\u2019s thrillers may not translate into the most sophisticated TV shows, but they sure have some grabby premises. This adaptation centres on David, a man serving a prison sentence for his young son\u2019s murder \u2013 until his former sister-in-law (Severance\u2019s Britt Lower) seemingly discovers the child alive and well.<\/p>\n
Channel 4, 14 June, 9pm
This three-part documentary relives the long and starry musical campaign to free South African civil rights leader Nelson Mandela \u2013 sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 and finally released in 1990. Talking heads include the politician\u2019s daughter, a fellow inmate and prison wardens, plus musicians including Bono, Sade and Jerry Dammers, writer of the titular iconic protest song.<\/p>\n
iPlayer & BBC Four, 16 June, 10pm
The New Yorker called Ken Burns\u2019s documentary about the fight for independence in 1770s America \u201cexplosively interesting\u201d \u2013 now it\u2019s finally airing in the UK. The 12-hour epic features a raft of historians and an all-star cast (Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Ethan Hawke, Claire Danes) who bring key figures to life.<\/p>\n
Apple TV, 19 June
Halfway through season one of this noirish (and rather divisive) detective thriller, Colin Farrell\u2019s eponymous PI was revealed to be a blue-skinned alien. Now he returns to crack two more missing persons cases: the disappearance of a boxer\u2019s brother and the whereabouts of his own sister, who is presumably a humanoid extraterrestrial too. RA<\/p>\n
PS5, Switch 2, PC, Xbox,\u00a0out 18 June
A Japanese fable starring a\u00a0young boy travelling through time with a fairy companion. If that sounds rather like old-school Zelda, it\u2019s clearly an inspiration, along with classic Final Fantasy, but the extraordinary visual style alone shows plenty\u00a0of modern originality.<\/p>\n
PS5, Switch 2, PC, Xbox, out 17 June
Ever played Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater and thought: this would be way better if I were playing as a subway train? Yes? Then this playfully outlandish, hyper-pop-soundtracked, graffiti-covered explosion of colour is for you. Keza\u00a0MacDonald<\/p>\n
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Split into two parts, the third album by Grammy-winning pop-rocker Rodrigo luxuriates in the heady highs of a\u00a0new\u00a0relationship, before shining a\u00a0light on its aftermath. The giddy lead\u00a0single Drop Dead represents the former, while The Cure gently picks over emotional insecurities.<\/p>\n
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After a tricky few years stuck in major-label limbo, US pop star Bebe Rexha returns with her fourth album, and first as an independent artist. Not much else has changed, however: songs such as Hysteria and the Faithless-sampling New Religion continue Rexha\u2019s penchant for big EDM bangers.<\/p>\n
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Co-produced alongside Yves Rothman (FKA twigs, Amaarae) and Jack Antonoff (literally everyone), multi-instrumentalist Kelsey Lu\u2019s follow-up to 2019\u2019s debut Blood features slow-burn devotionals augmented by delicate ambient textures, best epitomised by the Sampha-assisted Better Than That.<\/p>\n
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As is de rigueur for any pop-adjacent artist in 2026, the third album by Australian Ruel is both new\u00a0and old. A reissue of last year\u2019s Kicking My Feet, it also features 10 new\u00a0tracks including the pogoing misery anthem Hate Myself, as well as\u00a0the Joel Little-produced weepie Don\u2019t Say That. MC<\/p>\n