This week’s entertainment picks: Hamnet, a David Lynch season and Bridget Christie tour

This week’s entertainment guide highlights a new film release, a retrospective season at BFI Southbank and a touring comedy show, among cinema, gigs, galleries and new streaming arrivals across the UK. Film Hamnet is out now and is described as an emotional Oscar hopeful, starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley as William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes; it depicts the death of their son Hamnet at age 11 and is based on Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, directed by Chloé Zhao.

Other new cinema releases noted include Giant and a rerelease of Labyrinth; Soulwax and other live gigs are scheduled in mid-January. BFI Southbank and BFI Imax in London run a David Lynch season to 31 January, marking what would have been the director’s 80th birthday and featuring films such as The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, six short films, all eight episodes of the Dumbland webseries, plus a Lynch VJ night and a quiz evening.

Comedian Bridget Christie’s new live show Jacket Potato Pizza tours from 14 January to 5 April, starting in Stamford, and promises material on kidney stones, cats and eye fetishes. On streaming, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy arrives on Paramount+ on 15 January with Holly Hunter and Robert Picardo among the cast; Netflix’s Agatha Christie adaptation Seven Dials is due 15 January and Apple TV’s Hijack continues with a second series starting 14 January.

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Culture, Hamnet, Chloé Zhao, Paul Mescal, David Lynch, Bridget Christie