The SLMan Culture List – November
The SLMan Culture List – November

The SLMan Culture List – November

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Whether you fancy a trip to the cinema or want a new doc to get stuck into, SLMan’s monthly edit of the best new books, films and series is here to see you through November…

THE THRILLING SERIES: Echo 3

Echo 3 is the highly anticipated 10-episode, action-packed thriller from Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) and starring Luke Evans, Michiel Huisman and Jessica Ann Collins. Landing on Apple TV+ on 23rd November, the series is set in South America. It follows Amber Chesborough (Collins), a brilliant young scientist who is the emotional heart of a small American family. When she goes missing along the Colombia-Venezuela border, her brother Bambi (Evans) and her husband Prince (Huisman) – two men with deep military experience and complicated pasts – struggle to find her in a layered personal drama, set against the explosive backdrop of a secret war. 

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THE THEATRE SHOW: Henry V

Shakespeare’s Globe’s winter season will open with Henry V in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse on 10th November. Running until 4th February 2023,  this latest production of Shakespeare’s classic history play will be performed in the intimate, indoor playhouse for the first time, exploring Henry’s single-minded pursuit of power, and what it means to be ‘English’.

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THE MURDER MYSTERY: Glass Onion

In the follow-up to Rian Johnson's Knives Out, Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery involving a new cast of colourful suspects. Tech billionaire Miles Bron invites his friends for a getaway on his private Greek island. Then someone turns up dead. Also stars Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr, Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson and Dave Bautista.

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THE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE: The Gunpowder Plot

If you’re looking for a slice of history as Bonfire Night approaches, there’s a new immersive experience at Tower Vaults at the Tower of London. The Gunpowder Plot is a multi-sensory adventure that takes its audience back to 1605. The mission: go undercover, infiltrate the plotters and become part of history’s most daring conspiracy. Intricate, large-scale walk-around locations and actors performing live are integrated with ambitious technology, including virtual reality, projection mapping, ambisonics and SFX tapping into temperature, taste, touch and smell.

Visit GunpowderImmersive.com

THE FILM-BUFF ESSENTIAL: Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino

In addition to being one of the most celebrated contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is one of the most passionate movie lovers. For years he has talked about his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come. Organised around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he first saw as a young moviegoer, this book is as intellectually rigorous and insightful as it is rollicking and entertaining. At once film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history, it is all written in a voice immediately recognisable as Tarantino’s with the rare perspective about cinema possible only from one of the medium’s greatest directors.

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THE MUSIC DOC: Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues offers an intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings and personal conversations. This definitive documentary, directed by Sacha Jenkins, honours Armstrong's legacy as a founding father of jazz, one of the first internationally known and beloved stars, and a cultural ambassador for the US. The film shows how Armstrong’s own life spans the shift from the Civil War to the civil rights movement, and how he became a lightning-rod figure in that turbulent era.

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THE EVENT: Doc’n Roll

Doc’n Roll Film Festival has hit big screens nationwide for its ninth edition. An experience-led festival, Doc’n Roll brings its events to life with live Q&As with directors and musicians, special DJ sets, afterparties and post-screening gigs. This year there’s a selection of 22 feature-length documentaries and nine shorts from around the globe, with both in-cinema and online offerings. A programme of musical discovery highlighting major artists and unsung heroes, cult icons and underground subcultures, Doc’n Roll puts a huge range of rhythms, musicians and music scenes in the spotlight, and showcases stories from the worlds of electronic, folk and punk to the landscapes of soul, psychedelia and jazz. Our pick? Moonbathing in February, which follows London band Fat White Family through lockdown.

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THE CULTURAL EVENING: I Am Shakespeare by Mark Rylance

On Sunday 27th November, Mark Rylance and Sean Foley will feature in a special, one-off rehearsed reading of Rylance’s first play I Am Shakespeare at The Old Vic. A comedy of Shakespearean identity crisis, Foley is Barry Wild, Alex Hassell is Edward de Vere, Colin Hurley is William Shakespear, Sam Parks is Sergeant Trevor Freeman/His Twin/Telephone Salesman, Juliet Rylance is Lady Mary Sidney and Rylance will play Frank Charlton. The rehearsed reading will be accompanied by a Q&A with Rylance and talks from the cast. 

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THE CINEMA RELEASE: Liam Gallagher Knebworth 22

Earlier this year, Liam Gallagher returned to Knebworth, 26 years after Oasis’s historic 1996 shows. Performing to 170,000 fans across two sold-out nights in one of the first major stage shows following the pandemic, this year’s event coincided with a third solo album, C’mon You Know – Gallagher’s third studio number-one in the album charts. Knebworth 22 is the feature-length documentary that traces the singer back to the site of his old band’s defining performances, including all-new interviews and behind-the-scenes and concert footage. The film also goes a little bit further, seeking out stories and perspectives from collaborators and fans of different generations from around the world, transposing the emotional and social context of the 90s shows onto the tumult of our current era.

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THE FOOTY DOC: Italia 90

Ready to get in the mood for the football World Cup? Sky and Now has a new documentary just for you. Italia 90 promises to be the definitive story of the World Cup that forever changed football, told by an international roster of iconic interviewees, including Paul Gascoigne, Roger Milla and Lothar Matthäus. From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the civil wars of Yugoslavia; English hooliganism in the 80s to the rise of a new football culture in the 90s, the doc explores how Italia 90 was a tournament played in a changing world.

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THE IMMERSIVE EVENT: Rematch - Rumble In The Jungle

Next year, fusing theatre, sport and technology, Rematch will launch its second immersive experience Rumble in the Jungle, transporting guests to the legendary Muhammad Ali and George Foreman boxing match in 1974. Almost 50 years later, Rematch is giving everyone a second chance to experience the magic thanks to a world-class re-imagining of the fight. Transforming London’s Seymour Hall into Kinshasa, the fight will be brought to life by the music, culture, fashion, food and drink that surrounded the iconic fight. The run of shows starts in February 2023, but tickets are on sale now.

Visit RumbleInTheJungleRematch.com

THE RE-RELEASE: The Pothunters by PG Wodehouse

PG Wodehouse is widely recognised as one of the greatest 20th-century comic writers in the English language. Best known for the escapades of Jeeves and Wooster, Wodehouse has inspired countless comedians including Stephen Fry, Alexander Armstrong and Hugh Laurie. This year marks the 120th anniversary of Wodehouse’s first ever novel, The Pothunters, and to celebrate Penguin has published a new gift edition of the book so readers can discover a little-known classic that hasn’t been in print for a few years. Set in a fictional boarding school, the farcical book follows Jim – a pleasant young student who has the unfortunate habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time – as two of the school’s silver sports cups are stolen in a burglary.

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THE MUSIC MEMOIR: Surrender by Bono

Bono – artist, activist and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2 – has written a memoir. His career has been written about extensively. But in Surrender, it’s Bono who picks up the pen, writing for the first time about his remarkable life and those he has shared it with. Bono takes readers from his early days growing up in Dublin, including the sudden loss of his mother when he was 14, to U2’s unlikely journey to become one of the world’s most influential rock bands, to his more than 20 years of activism dedicated to the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty. The singer has also created 40 original drawings for Surrender which appear throughout the book.  

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THE FILM TO STREAM: Poker Face

Directed by and starring Russell Crowe, alongside Liam Hemsworth, Poker Face follows a group of childhood friends get together every year for a poker night hosted by tech billionaire Jake Foley (Crowe) in his palatial residence. Only this time, they all have a hidden agenda for their host and his money. But little do they know Jake also has an ace or two up his sleeve. Murder and mayhem don’t even come close to describing the night that is in store for them. Jake will need to bluff, double bluff, and double cross to have even the slightest chance of getting him and his family through this hellish night.

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