
New Orleans jazz trumpeter and film composer Blanchard is a thrilling instrumentalist whose music reflects social issues, too. Terence Blanchard ft the E-Collective With Turtle Island String Quartet This rescheduled tour is in support of last year’s Spark album, which also saw them dabble in Hot Chip-esque disco. Over four albums, including the covers collection, Candid, the Chicago duo Whitney have moved further away from winsome indie-folk and closer to a more polished R&B sheen. The best of her recent singles, including the breezy I Gotta I Gotta, were collected on last year’s A Mosh Pit in the Clouds EP, which should get an airing at this one-off date. South London teen Joyce Cisse creates sun-dappled indie pop that’s warmly nostalgic. Directed, like its predecessors, by Peyton Reed. Paul Rudd returns as the mighty but sometimes miniature Marvel character who in this new adventure finds himself exploring the Quantum Realm, while fighting supervillain Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors). But you could equally dive straight into this feature-length adventure, with Jenny Slate (Parks and Recreation) voicing Marcel and Dean Fleischer Camp directing. If you’re not familiar with the eponymous stop-motion shell and want to get up to speed, the animated short films in which he originates are available online.

Pierfrancesco Favino stars as an Italian who has spent most of his life living in Egypt, but who returns home only to find the past isn’t quite as, well, past as he thought, in this love letter to Naples from the veteran director Mario Martone. Although, like the previous one, this new film also features a fine performance from Anthony Hopkins, it’s not in fact a sequel, but an engaging drama that packs a punch while somehow also including some charming dad-dancing from Hugh Jackman. From Florian Zeller, the film-maker behind the Oscar-winning The Father, comes The Son.
