TVIf you only watch one, make it \u2026Wonder Man<\/p>\n
Disney+<\/p>\n
We could be heroes? \u2026 Yahya Adbul-Mateen II and Ben Kingsley in Marvel\u2019s Wonder Man. Photograph: Marvel Television<\/p>\n
Summed up in a sentence This tale of a secretly super-powered actor\u2019s attempt to act in a superhero movie is that rarest of things \u2013 a Marvel Cinematic Universe show which is genuinely good.
What our reviewer said \u201cA rather clever, tender and altogether wonder-ful thing.\u201d Lucy Mangan<\/p>\n
Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Wonder Man to Take That: the seven best shows to stream this week<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restTake That<\/p>\n Netflix<\/p>\n Could it be magic? \u2026 Gary Barlow in Take That. Photograph: Netflix<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence A fantastically enjoyable documentary about the boyband, packed with interviews, archive footage, and tonnes of nostalgia. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Clive Myrie\u2019s African Adventure<\/p>\n BBC iPlayer<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence One of the BBC\u2019s best-known news presenters serves up a joyful travelogue around South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Morocco. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n You may have missed \u2026Poison Water<\/p>\n BBC iPlayer<\/p>\n Nasty taste in the mouth \u2026 Poison Water. Photograph: Mei Williams\/BBC\/Keo Films\/Button Down<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence A hugely powerful documentary about north Cornwall residents\u2019 long struggle for justice, following their water turning toxic. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n FilmIf you only watch one, make it \u2026Primate<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Unfinished monkey business \u2026 Victoria Wyant and Johnny Sequoyah in Primate. Photograph: Paramount Pictures\/PA<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Pet chimp goes wild in a brief, brutal and slickly made creature feature from British director Johannes Roberts. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restNouvelle Vague<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Formidable! \u2026 Richard Linklater\u2019s Nouvelle Vague. Photograph: Jean-Louis Fernandez<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Richard Linklater recreates the making of the landmark French New Wave classic Breathless in homage to the prickly Jean-Luc Godard. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading \u2018I have Yes tattooed on my foot!\u2019 Zoey Deutch on playing Jean Seberg in a joyous celebration of Godard classic Breathless<\/a><\/p>\n Is This Thing On?<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Gag reflex \u2026 Will Arnett in Is This Thing On. Photograph: Searchlight Pictures\/PA<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Bradley Cooper directs Will Arnett in a drama based on the life of comedian John Bishop, about a man heading for a divorce who discovers a cathartic outlet in comedy. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Have you heard the one about the Bradley Cooper film inspired by John Bishop \u2026 ?<\/a><\/p>\n Strongroom<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence A gang of bank robbers return to the scene of their crime to free the employees they imprisoned in a vault in this suspenseful 1962 British thriller. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Now streamingThe Wrecking Crew<\/p>\n Prime Video<\/p>\n Brothers in arms \u2026 Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa in Wrecking Crew. Photograph: Prime Video<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa play abundantly muscled estranged siblings avenging their father in an action-comedy throwback. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n BooksIf you only read one, make it \u2026Glyph by Ali Smith<\/p>\n Reviewed by Keiran Goddard<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence A brave and playful tale of sisterhood, conflict and mortality that faces up to the war in Gaza. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Ali Smith: \u2018Henry James had me running down the garden path shouting out loud\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restLost Lambs by Madeline Cash<\/p>\n Reviewed by Lara Feigel<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence A comic debut for our conspiracy theory era about a dysfunctional American family. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar<\/p>\n Reviewed by Keshava Guha<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence In the follow-up to A Burning, a woman tries to escape from climate disaster in near-future Kolkata. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God by Peter Ormerod<\/p>\n Reviewed by Simon Critchley<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence A religious reading of the star\u2019s life and work, from Space Oddity to Blackstar. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading A Day with David Bowie: how a visit to a psychiatric clinic changed him \u2013 and his music<\/a><\/p>\n You may have missed \u2026Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry<\/p>\n Reviewed by Joe Moran<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence A deeply moving portrait of the end of life, Perry\u2019s book won this year\u2019s Nero prize for nonfiction. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading \u2018I wanted to write more than I wanted to have children\u2019: author Sarah Perry on rejecting motherhood<\/a><\/p>\n AlbumsIf you only listen to one, make it \u2026Leonkoro Quartet: Out of Vienna<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n \u2018Unflinching\u2019 \u2026 the Berlin-based Leonkoro Quartet. Photograph: Co Merz<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The young quartet give a fiercely alert account of Berg, Webern and Schulhoff \u2013 beautifully capturing Vienna\u2019s prewar musical fault lines. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restTyler Ballgame: For the First Time, Again<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Spin cycle \u2026 indie singer-songwriter Tyler Ballgame. Photograph: Rough Trade Records<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Debut from the much-hyped LA singer \u2013 who has been compared to Tim Buckley, Elvis and more. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Tyler Ballgame: \u2018Self help shocked me out of depression. I had this spiritual awakening\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Julie Campiche: Unspoken<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The composer\u2019s first unaccompanied album turns extended harp technique into music of intimacy, restraint and conviction \u2013 inspired by the women who shaped her world. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Yumi Zouma: No Love Lost to Kindness<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The New Zealand dream-poppers edge away from their trademark sound with louder guitars and bolder intentions. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Now touring \u2026Lucinda Williams<\/p>\n Touring the UK<\/a> to 7 February<\/p>\n \u2018She radiates resolve\u2019 \u2026 Lucinda Williams performing in Dublin earlier this month. Photograph: Debbie Hickey\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence At 73, the lodestar of Americana still writes with urgency, as the patient force of her band sends the music grooving skywards.
What our reviewer said \u201cIt\u2019s hugely enjoyable stuff. Directed by David \u201cBros: After the Screaming Stops\u201d Soutar and told through new, off-screen interviews with the three remaining Thats, the series is replete with archive footage, acres and acres of the stuff, brilliantly edited and much of it previously unseen.\u201d Sarah Dempster<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cA wonderful series which shows that the much-maligned celebrity travel show can be educational, informative and really moving.\u201d Hannah J Davies<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cThere are enough new interviews here \u2013 with residents, experts and politicians \u2013 to bring the whole thing startlingly, discomfitingly into the present.\u201d Hannah J Davies<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cAt 89 minutes and paced like a rollercoaster, there\u2019s little room for life lessons, although the film does make for a stern, grisly reminder of why chimps should not be considered part of the family.\u201d Benjamin Lee<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cIt\u2019s a good natured, intelligent effort for which Godard himself, were he still alive, would undoubtedly have ripped Linklater a new one.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cArnett has such a gentle face: handsome yet sensitive and wounded, the kind of face that you want to stroke sympathetically.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cThe movie delivers a couple of big shocks, and everything is briskly wrapped up inside 80 minutes. The performances are stagy and yet robust in the manner of British cinema of those days, but always plausible and watchable.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cThe final big-boss banter between Claes Bang and Momoa is a gas, as is the chemistry between Momoa and Bautista, two lovable lugs who clearly like each other. The whole package is an easily digested guilty pleasure.\u201d Leslie Felperin<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cSmith\u2019s tonal skill as a writer is used to great effect when dealing with the bureaucratic, authoritarian absurdity of the British state.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cCash\u2019s virtuosic wit allows her to warm hearts at the same time as satirising the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cA Guardian and a Thief has the pace of a thriller, but it derives its drama from the ratcheting up of moral stakes, rather than suspense.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cIt is irresistibly tempting to see Bowie\u2019s extraordinary archive at the V&A as a vast reliquary that inspires that most medieval of practices: pilgrimage\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cWhat makes this book gem-like is that it succeeds in conveying the reality of death as this monumental, mythic thing that coexists surreally with the mundane world of council bin collections and neighbours hanging out their washing.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cThe playing is unflinching and seethes with imaginative detail.\u201d Clive Paget<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cHis voice is straightforwardly beautiful \u2013 a bruised, brooding croon that sweeps into an emotive falsetto as if doing so were the easiest thing in the world \u2013 and slightly theatrical.\u201d Alexis Petridis<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cYou might call her soundscape magical or otherworldly if it didn\u2019t coexist with a campaigner\u2019s political urgency on environmental and social issues. But Campiche is too much of a visionary to overwhelm the eloquence of pure sound with polemic.\u201d John Fordham<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cFar from a dramatic reinvention, this is Yumi Zouma remaking themselves in real time.\u201d Katie Hawthorne<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said She is living with the after-effects of a stroke, yet once she\u2019s behind the mic she radiates resolve. If anything, the voice sounds newly burnished; the phrasing more deliberate, the vibrato catching the light. Brian Coney<\/p>\n