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Going out: Cinema

Captain America: Courageous New World
Out now
Within the newest instalment of Marvel mayhem, Anthony Mackie stars as Sam Wilson-slash-Captain America, with Chris Evans having bowed out. And changing William Harm following the veteran actor’s loss of life is Harrison Ford, hulking out as antagonist Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross, president of the USA and occasional Purple Hulk. Oh courageous new world certainly.

Bridget Jones: Mad In regards to the Boy
Out now
We’ve seen singleton Bridget, pregnant Bridget, now right here comes widowed solo-parenting Bridget for the presumably remaining instalment within the Ms Jones chronicles, not less than till Helen Fielding writes one other bestseller. Whereas elevating her six- and 10-year-old youngsters by the late Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), Bridget (Renée Zellweger) finds herself embroiled in one other love triangle.

Memoir of a Snail
Out now
After Grace’s mom dies throughout being pregnant, she is raised alongside her twin brother by an alcoholic father. However maintain up: this isn’t some gritty social-realist drama. No, it is a gritty social-realist stop-motion animation, with voicework from Sarah Snook and Kodi Smit-McPhee.

BFI Future movie competition
20 February to six March, Nationwide
Now in its 18th yr, this celebration of younger film-making expertise is again on the BFI showcasing the work of the brand new technology, aged 16-25. The competition takes place at BFI Southbank, on-line and in UK cinemas. Catherine Bray

Going out: Gigs

Klangforum Wien
Wigmore Corridor, London, 16 & 17 February
One in all Europe’s main new-music ensembles makes a uncommon go to to London, with conductor Vimbayi Kaziboni and mezzo soprano Barbara Kozelj, for live shows dedicated to music composed in Vienna within the first many years of the twentieth century. The primary options Schoenberg, Mahler and Zemlinsky, whereas within the second Schoenberg’s revolutionary Pierrot Lunaire is prefaced with music by Schreker, Eisler and Busoni. Andrew Clements

Pitbull
3Arena, Dublin, Wednesday; The O2, London, 21 February
The self-proclaimed Mr Worldwide touches down within the UK and Eire for simply two exhibits as a part of his Get together After Darkish tour. Anticipate a litany of 2010s bangers corresponding to Give Me Every part and Timber. Assist comes from Lil Jon. Michael Cragg

Strictly Smokin’ Massive Band ft Emma Rawicz
Glasshouse Worldwide Centre for Music, Gateshead, 21 February
The younger UK saxophonist-composer began getting observed when she was nonetheless a pupil, and her 2022 debut album Incantation clinched her rising repute for seamlessly merging classic-sax soulfulness and post-Coltrane edge. She fronts north-east bandleader Michael Lamb’s genre-bending orchestra for this one-off present. John Fordham

Carly Pearce
19 to twenty-eight February; tour begins London
Whereas her 4 albums haven’t troubled charts within the UK, as with numerous American nation stars the Grammy-winning Pearce has constructed up a loyal following. This tour of mid-sized venues is in help of final yr’s Hummingbird, which options the superb revenge anthem, Truck on Hearth. MC

Going out: Artwork

Flowers
Saatchi Gallery, London, to five Might
The primary trendy artists had been fascinated by flowers, from the bouquet being delivered to Manet’s Olympia to Van Gogh’s intense preparations. This exhibition follows that floral cult into as we speak’s artwork with an enormous and vibrant gathering of artists, from Caroline Larsen to Damien Hirst.

Emii Alrai
Compton Verney, Warwickshire, to fifteen June
Volcanoes have impressed and exhilirated artists for hundreds of years: within the 18th century, painters flocked to see Vesuvius, the volcano that had buried historic Pompeii, erupt as soon as once more. Emii Alrai responds to Compton Verney’s assortment of their work with rugged, lava-like sculptures. Her installations carry the elegant updated.

Vanessa da Silva
Mostyn, Llandudno, to 31 Might
Brazilian trendy artwork is more and more famend, with the Royal Academy at the moment celebrating its early historical past. Vanessa da Silva brings the summary and spatial vitality of Brazil’s Concrete and Neo-Concrete colleges updated. Her vibrant sculptures evoke conventional people dances, and the facility of Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian rituals.

Citra Sasmita
Barbican: The Curve, London, to 21 April
Girls fly like birds, or open their heads, out of which residing bushes sprout. The folklore and mythology of Indonesia will get a feminist rebirth within the work of self-taught artist Citra Sasmita, who works with the Kamasan method, invented within the 1400s. She reverses its conventional dominance by male artisans. Jonathan Jones

Going out: Stage

Lynn Faces
New Diorama theatre, London, 18 February to 1 March
What do you do if you’re escaping a coercive relationship at 40? Type a punk band, in fact. First carried out on the Edinburgh fringe, playwright Laura Horton’s gig-theatre present is a musical story of emotional resilience, rebuilt confidence, and Alan Partridge’s PA. Kate Wyver

Figures in Extinction
Aviva Studios, Manchester, 19 to 22 February
The world premiere of the entire Figures in Extinction trilogy by choreographer Crystal Pite and Complicité director Simon McBurney – solely the primary part has been beforehand seen within the UK. It’s a haunting, searing (and maybe hopeful) meditation on humanity’s influence on nature. Lyndsey Winship

Champion
Reside theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne, to eight March
Reside theatre specialises in tales rooted within the north-east, right here taking us again to 1977, when Muhammad Ali got here to city. This new play by Ishy Din, affiliate playwright on the Royal Courtroom, explores the influence of the venerable boxer’s go to on one household in South Shields. KW

Atsuko Okatsuka
Glasgow, Thursday; Manchester, 21 February; London, 22 February
Many comics riff on their upbringing; few have a backstory as disturbing as this Taiwan-born standup, who grew up in Japan with a schizophrenic mom earlier than being “kidnapped” by her grandmother and brought to the US. However don’t count on an earnest account of childhood trauma; as an alternative Okatsuka’s work brims with quirky wit and childlike vim. Rachel Aroesti