The Dog StarsOut now Ridley Scott has got to be one of the most prolific octogenarians working today. The director’s latest, a sci-fi drama based on the 2012 novel, stars man of the moment Jacob Elordi as a former pilot surviving the aftermath of a pandemic, with Margaret Qualley as a medic/love interest and Josh Brolin as a pugnacious former marine. ColonyOut now Welcome to a Korean zombie horror where the twist is that the undead share a hive mind, making them a formidable threat to the not-so-merry band of survivors hoping to pull through against the odds.
Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho returns with more gore and action thrills. One Night OnlyOut now Will Gluck writes and directs a romcom starring zeitgeist-friendly actors Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro. It hit the headlines for not having any explicit sex in it despite its The Purge-meets-romance premise: premarital sex is illegal in the US, apart from on one no-holds-barred night each year.
I Want Your SexOut now Another new release with banging on the brain sees Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman playing, respectively, a provocative artist and the assistant with whom she enters into a BDSM relationship. Being a Gregg Araki film, this one is rather bolder, with the young man soon finding himself in over his head, so to speak. Catherine Bray ForwardsThe Downs, Bristol, 29 & 30 August The likes of Tems, Little Simz and Amyl and the Sniffers headline this two-day festival in one of the UK’s foremost music cities.
The eclectic bill also includes UK legends (Tricky, Goldie) and electronic experimentalists (Oklou, Wesley Joseph). Michael Cragg Gesualdo Six and the Colin Currie GroupRoyal Albert Hall, London, 2 September Two British musical trailblazers – a Renaissance-focused vocal consort and a new-music ensemble headed by one of the world’s leading percussionists – join forces for this late-night Prom. The programme mixes centuries-old Christian choral works with Steve Reich’s Tehillim to mark the composer’s 90th birthday.
Flora Willson A$AP Rocky30 August to 5 September, tour starts London In the eight years since his last album, Testing, rapper A$AP Rocky ventured into acting, designing and modelling, before releasing his fourth album, Don’t Be Dumb, in January. He now brings that expertly curated shapeshifting record to UK arenas. MC Swansea international jazz festivalVarious venues, 3 to 6 September Swansea not only hosts the UK’s longest-running weekly jazz club, but a prestigious weekender too.
Guitar maestro Nicolas Meier splices Turkish music, flamenco, jazz and more (3 September), while ever-cool vocalist Claire Martin duets with bass virtuoso Laurence Cottle (4 September). John Fordham Selected 16 Nottingham Contemporary, 2 September Touring art venues across the UK, this exhibition celebrates incredibly diverse new moving image work by early-career artists including Rhiana Bonterre, Rosanna Lee, Jack Guariento and Viviana Almas. Mike NelsonLeeds Art Gallery, to 30 August It’s your last chance to see M62 (East, West) by the ever brilliant English conceptualist Mike Nelson, a minimal display of blown-out car tyres, collected from the verges of the M62 motorway that runs south of Leeds.
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