This freewheeling, semi-improvised feature from the Ross brothers follows a group of friends as they head for the coast for a final pre-adulthood blowoutThe Ross brothers – American directing duo Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross – have made a career out of telling stories from the margins of US society and doing so using a film-making approach that is similarly...

From a Japanese bamboo flute that is harvested and then cured to an unusual fretless zither and a blue Fender Strat, three performers tell the stories of the instruments they cherishA central figure of the London jazz scene, Shabaka Hutchings, 40, has been a member of bands including Shabaka and the Ancestors, and the Mercury-nominated Sons of Kemet...

Three sisters attempt to deal with their father’s death as the end of the world draws near in an evocative novel about sibling rivalryIn Julia Armfield’s third book the effects of the climate crisis are felt daily. The city in which sisters Isla, Irene and Agnes live has been transformed by endless rain – and in turn its inhabitants have had to transform...

Muayad Alayan’s drama of a bereaved 12-year-old and her ghostly new friend creates atmosphere but is slow and stiltedAfter the death of her mother, 12-year-old Rebecca (Miley Locke) and her father (Johnny Harris) move from the UK to Jerusalem to live in a grand house that her father’s family own. But a new start fails to lift Rebecca from the grief...

A group of young delinquents are steered on a different path in RJ Daniel Hanna’s tirelessly formulaic take on a true storyAnother factually based sports drama celebrating – yawn – inspirational mentorship, gutsy tenacity and physical endurance, Hard Miles hauls its tired-out premise up approximately 750 miles of winding, mountainous roads in search...

Live theatre, Newcastle Stewart Pringle’s new play set in Northumberland in 1553 has the bones of something great, but at present teeters on parodyNewcastle’s Live theatre is 51 this year. Under its latest artistic director and CEO, Jack McNamara, it continues to pursue a mission: to produce new writing that is rooted in the region and “unafraid to...