From Mother Mary to Foo Fighters: Your Complete Entertainment Guide to the Week Ahead

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This comprehensive entertainment guide from The Guardian covers all the cultural highlights for the week ahead, offering recommendations across cinema, music, art, theater, streaming, gaming, and more. Whether you're planning a night out or looking for quality content to enjoy at home, this guide has something for every cultural enthusiast.

New Cinema Releases

Mother Mary
Out now
Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel play a pop star and a fashion designer embroiled in a psychosexual affair in this A24 drama-slash-thriller from director David Lowery. Also starring FKA twigs, Sian Clifford and Hunter Schafer.

Rose of Nevada
Out now
Starring George MacKay and Callum Turner, this is a sci-fi drama from director Mark Jenkin about a boat lost at sea for three decades that mysteriously reappears.

Exit 8
Out now
Based on the hit video game set in a Japanese metro station passageway, this high-concept horror has its protagonist, The Lost Man (Kazunari Ninomiya) trapped in a seemingly inescapable spatial loop.

Michael
Out now
Seventeen years on from Michael Jackson's death, his estate-approved biopic finally arrives. Charting his rise from the Jackson 5 to Bad-era superstardom, the film features Jackson's nephew Jaafar in the lead, with Colman Domingo as domineering father Joe.

Live Music Highlights

Ego Ella May
Manchester, 29 April; touring to 9 May
A fusion of neo-soul and contemporary jazz, south Londoner Ego Ella May's third album Good Intentions gets an airing on this short tour. Keep an ear out for slick tracks such as What You Waiting For.

Grand Pianola Music
Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, 1 May
Pianist Tamara Stefanovich joins the BBC Philharmonic and conductor John Storgårds in Stravinsky's Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments and John Adams's Grand Pianola Music, inspired by a dream about limousines turning into oversized Steinway pianos.

Cheltenham Jazz Festival
Various venues, 29 April to 4 May
The 30th anniversary of the ever diverse Cheltenham jazz festival draws a typical raft of established and rising stars. Genre-bending virtuoso violinist Nigel Kennedy (1 May) is an early highlight with Joshua Redman and Emma Rawicz to follow.

Louis Tomlinson
25 April to 3 May; tour continues Birmingham
Just before tours by his former bandmates, Louis arrives in UK arenas in support of January's How Did I Get Here?. With three albums of rock-adjacent pop to lean on now, chances of a One Direction throwback are slim but not impossible.

Art Exhibitions

Handpicked: Painting Flowers from 1900 to Today
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, today to 6 September
Flowers are integral to the look and feel of Kettle's Yard: its founders Jim and Helen Ede incorporated fresh cut flowers into the gallery to create visual counterpoints to the artwork and architecture. This exhibition features artists who cared about flowers as much as the Edes, from Henri Rousseau and Winnifred Nicholson to Lubaina Himid and Cedric Morris.

George Hallett
John Lennon School of Art, Liverpool, 25 April to 21 June
South African photographer George Hallett's work captures the cultural and political landscape of his country during and after apartheid. This retrospective brings together his most powerful images from a career spanning five decades.