Entertainment picks: From Lord of the Flies to Deftones
Cinema highlights include 100 Nights of Hero, in which Maika Monroe plays a woman shut up in a castle while Nicholas Galitzine’s seductive best friend wagers he can tempt her; Emma Corrin’s sharp‑witted maid tries to foil his schemes in Julia Jackman’s fairytale fantasy with Charli XCX.
My Father’s Shadow, a semi‑autobiographical debut from Akinola Davies Jr, follows Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù as an estranged father crossing Lagos with his sons during violent unrest after the 1993 election crisis. Riz Ahmed leads Aneil Karia’s modern Hamlet as a scion of a wealthy British South Asian family, and Kristen Stewart makes her directorial debut with The Chronology Of Water, starring Imogen Poots as Lidia Yuknavitch.
On the live front US alt‑metallers Deftones start an arena tour in Birmingham from 12 to 20 February, touring ahead of a busy festival summer and riding the momentum of last year’s Private Music.