From Project Hail Mary to Saturday Night Live UK: your complete entertainment guide for next week | culture

Checkout: cinema

Hail Mary project
Out now
Novelist Andy Weir’s brand of comical, semi-plausible sci-fi gave rise to Ridley Scott’s The Martian – and now Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are hoping to repeat something of the same success. Ryan Gosling is the hero of a story in which a science teacher wakes up on a spaceship on a desperate mission in deep space.

La Grazia
Out now
Italian star Tony Servillo reunites with director Paolo Sorrentino for another collaboration that explores the conflicts between personal freedom and public obligations. This time, the Italian president must navigate different moral dilemmas, including the possibility of pardoning two killers.

Broken English
Out now
Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s documentary about Marianne Faithfull eschews convention to explore its subject through devices including the Ministry of Unforgetting – a fictional space where actual memories can collide with myth-making. Contributors include Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Nick Cave and Courtney Love.

Dead man’s wire
Out now
Gus Van Sant directs this crime thriller based on the true story of Tony Kyritsis, a kidnapper who took his mortgage broker hostage for 63 hours and set up a “dead man’s wire” contraption that meant that if anyone shot Kyritsis, the mortgage broker would be shot too. Stars Bill Skarsgard. Catherine Bray

Checkout: Gigs

Jonah
25 to March 31; The tour begins in London
Gunna’s sixth album, The Last Wun, cemented the Georgian rapper as one of hip-hop’s newest stars. After hitting the top 10 in the UK – his fifth in a row – it hits arenas this week, providing the setting for atmospheric trap anthems like One of Wun and FukUMean. Michael Cragg

6 Music Festival
Various places, Greater Manchester, 25 Until March 28
This year’s festival highlights independent venues including Band on the Wall, YES and Eccles Town Hall Ballroom, and features established acts such as Bloc Party and Courtney Barnett, as well as newcomers Jacob Allon and Wesley Joseph. MC

Dave Holland and Lionel Locke
Union Chapel, London, March 23
With United, their widely acclaimed 2024 album, guitarist Lionel Locke and bassist Dave Holland demonstrate how, with their vast collective experience, two musicians can conjure worldly jazzy lyricism, dazzling improvisation and urgent audacity. John Fordham

Tansy Davis: The Passion of Mary Magdalene
Barbican Hall, London, March 24
The adventurous period performance group Dunedin Consort gives a major world performance for the first time. This new discourse revisits the story of the Passion from Mary Magdalene’s point of view. John Batt stars with Anna Denis as Mary Magdalene. Flora Wilson

Checkout: art

Frank Bowling
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge March 27 Until January 17
This enchanting vision is painted on a heroic and historical scale in an abstract veil of molten colours. He was a contemporary of Hockney and other British Pop artists, but, unlike them, he embraced the sublime modernism of American Abstract Expressionism, whose grandeur helped him conjure personal and universal maps.

Horvin Anderson
Tate Britain, London, March 26 Until August 23
Paintings that skillfully push realistic, well-observed scenes, indoors and outdoors, into colorful lyricism. Green, black, blue and yellow bloom on Anderson’s brush. His landscapes lead your eye deeper and deeper into worlds that at first glance appear ordinary and serene but reveal great numbers. A very fine artist.

Bruegel to Rembrandt
Compton Vernie, Warwickshire, until 28 June
The visions of Pieter Bruegel the Elder dazzle and dazzle with carnivals and monstrous wonders. However, his beautiful drawings reveal the artist’s precision and organization. This exhibition takes his designs as a starting point for a survey of Northern European Renaissance and Baroque drawings all the way to Rembrandt’s exquisite drawings.

Catherine Opie
National Portrait Gallery, London, until 31 May
Identity is held up to the light in Obi’s full-face, highly formal and very ambiguous portraits. Her people look at you defiantly, and she honors them with large portraits, in images that echo the likes of such ancient artists as Ingres and even Rembrandt—but are strange. A provocative and powerful artist. Jonathan Jones

Checkout: platform

Dangerous relationships
The National Theatre, London, until 6 June
A new theatrical performance of Christopher Hampton’s clever adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos’s wicked novel. Lesley Manville and Aidan Turner play scheming aristocrats in this meditative production by Marianne Elliott. Miriam Gillinson

henry f
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, until 25 April
Surprisingly, Tamara Harvey is the first woman to direct a powerful historical Shakespeare play at the RSC. The production, starring Alfred Enoch, asks pressing questions about the nature of leadership. mg

Scottish Dance Theatre: Scottish Roots
Dunvegan Community Hall, Skye, March 25; Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Skye, March 26
Scottish Dance Theater celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and is currently touring the Inner Hebrides with a triple bill including director Joan Clevillé’s piece O Chiadain An Lo, set to music by piper Brìghde Chaimbeul. Lindsey Winship

David Elms
Old hairdresser, glasgow, March 22; Tour until May 30
David Elms Describes a Room is a laid-back, impromptu show, the premise of which – the comedian’s contributions to constructing an image of an imaginary room – is both passionate and largely intelligent. Rachel Aroesti