The SLMan Culture List – November

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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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