Wicker Out now Anyone who has ever fantasised about having a husband made out of wicker (surely a universal dream) will want to get themselves along to this Olivia Colman romantasy about a loner fisher who does exactly that. With Alexander Skarsgård, Richard E Grant, Peter Dinklage and Elizabeth Debicki. Nightborn Out now Seidi Haarla gives a wonderfully unhinged performance as a woman convinced there is something wrong with her newborn baby: the hellish crying, her bleeding nipples … surely this child is a monster?
All will be revealed in this tense but humorous supernatural drama, with Rupert Grint having fun as the sceptical new father. Primetime Out now Robert Pattinson continues a recent hot streak with a characterful turn as Chris Hansen, the TV personality famous for fronting To Catch a Predator, the US hit that lured and publicly exposed men who were interested in having sex with teenagers. Directed by Lance Oppenheim (also on a hot streak with You Can See Everything).
I Love Boosters Out now Shoplifting, teleportation, the consequences of sweatshop labour, designer fashion, workers’ rights and demons who suck out your soul while performing oral sex: here’s a comedy from Boots Riley that has it all. Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie and Taylour Paige star as Bay Area shoplifters the Velvet Gang, with Demi Moore as a powerful designer. Catherine Bray Pitchfork music festival London Various venues, 2 to 9 November The always divisive music website returns with another city festival lineup featuring the best in alternative soundscapes.
Highlights include the Avalanches, Olof Dreijer, Jacob Alon and Keiyaa, plus Nigel Godrich’s new project Dragonflies, while the best band name goes to Psychedelic Porn Crumpets. Michael Cragg Papa Roach 1 to 9 November; tour starts Glasgow Twenty-six years after their breakthrough with second album Infest, the perpetually angry nu-metallers are still going strong. Expect a heavy focus on that album – Last Resort is pretty undeniable in a live scenario – and follow-up Lovehatetragedy on this huge arena tour.
MC Guildhall School’s Opera Double Bill Silk Street theatre, London, 2 to 9 November Students on one of the country’s leading conservatoire opera courses perform two mid-century works: the UK premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti’s comic one-acter Amelia Al Ballo and Bernstein’s jazz-soaked modern classic Trouble in Tahiti. Expect high-energy professionalism and a chance to pick out the opera stars of the future. Flora Willson Fergus McCreadie The Glasshouse, Sage Two, Gateshead, 5 November Since 2021, young pianist/composer Fergus McCreadie has grown in stature within the restless evolution of contemporary global jazz as a Mercury prize nominee, the traditional folk music of his Scottish homeland, and at the cutting edge of chamber music.
The Glasshouse’s Innovators programme and Chamber Music Scotland showcase this adventurous wildlife-inspired co‑commission. John Fordham Winston Taylor Photo Portrait prize National Portrait Gallery, London, 5 November to 17 January The biggest photographic portraiture prize in the country has rebranded – you might know it better as the Taylor Wessing – but is otherwise unchanged: expect the finest photography by established pros and amateurs alike, featuring work from James Clifford Kent’s long-term project Yuma, including his portrait of aspiring pentathlete Neisser Yoel Gálvez Tabares. Mad Bloomsbury Charleston Firle, Lewes, 4 November to 11 April Coinciding with the centenary of Virginia Woolf’s essay On Being Ill, this show looks at how the Bloomsbury Group – the likes of Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant – dealt with ideas of madness, disability and neurodiversity.
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