What We Do In the Shadows, BBC Two review - black comedy vampire spin-off from cult movie

Squabbling neck nibblers raise the undead in spritely sitcom

This is a toothsome treat for Sunday nights and one of those rare occasions when the BBC has got hold of the kind of nifty comedy series that Netflix usually pumps out. What We Do in the Shadows started out as a New Zealand vampire flick in 2014.

Last Stop Coney Island review - the life and photography of Harold Feinstein

Affectionate documentary portrait of a neglected American pioneer of street photography

This is a real passion project; British filmmaker Andy Dunn spent years building up a relationship with the late American photographer Harold Feinstein, filming him at work and interviewing friends, family and colleagues. The result is a loving portrait of a remarkable man.

First Person: Ellen McDougall on finding the commonality in the American classic 'Our Town'

The director explains what drew her to the season-opener this summer at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park

I’ve wanted to direct Thornton Wilder’s Our Town for a long time.

The play is beautifully written and its form feels not only ahead of its time (it was written in 1938), but also extremely powerful for a contemporary audience in an open air theatre.

Mike Jay: Mescaline - A Global History of the First Psychedelic review - multiple perspectives

★★★ MIKE JAY: MESCALINE - A GLOBAL HISTORY OF THE FIRST PSYCHEDELIC Multiple perspectives

Thoroughly researched book is strong on drug's social significance

Humans have been consuming mescaline for millennia. The hallucinogenic alkaloid occurs naturally in a variety of cacti native to South America and the southern United States, the most well known of which are the diminutive peyote and the distinctively tubular San Pedro.

Death of a Salesman, Young Vic review - new-minted revival of a masterpiece

★★★★ DEATH OF A SALESMAN, YOUNG VIC New-minted revival of a masterpiece

Arthur Miller's tragedy from an African-American viewpoint

The Young Vic, a welcoming theatre with a culturally diverse audience, has been home to memorable Miller revivals before, notably Ivo van Hove's emotionally shattering, stripped-back A View From the Bridge in 2014. But before that, in the 1980s and Nineties, the then artistic director David Thacker was an important champion of Miller's work at a time when he was less well regarded at home.

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile review - pedestrian Ted Bundy biopic

Another rehash of a legendary serial murderer's killing spree

Why make a feature film about Ted Bundy, the notorious 1970s serial killer when you’ve already made Conversations with a Killer, a four-part factual series for Netflix about him? A charitable explanation would be that it offered documentarian Joe Berlinger a chance to explore aspects of the story that could only be told with drama.

Other People's Money, Southwark Playhouse review - onetime Off Broadway hit retains its sting

★★★★ OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY, SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE Greed is good in feisty revival of Eighties period piece

Greed is good or at least entertaining in feisty Off West End revival

Deft and funny and nicely cast, what's not to like about Other People's Money, the era-defining Jerry Sterner play in revival at Southwark Playhouse? The play's 1989 premiere Off Broadway allowed for a contemporary skewering of the roaring, rapacious, uncaring 1980s.

Eighth Grade review - a dazzlingly real portrait of a teenage girl

★★★★ EIGHTH GRADE Comedian Bo Burnham's powerful directorial debut pushes all the awkward buttons

Comedian Bo Burnham's powerful directorial debut pushes all the awkward buttons

“Hey guys, it’s Kayla, back with another video. So, the topic of today’s video is being yourself.” Kayla Day (the wonderful Elsie Fisher, nominated for a Golden Globe and also heard as the voice of Agnes in Despicable Me) is in her last week of eighth grade in upstate New York, compounding the horror of being 13 years old by making self-help YouTube videos in her bedroom. “As always, make sure to share and subscribe to my channel. Gucci!” she signs off chirpily, with Enya’s Orinoco Flow as surprisingly effective background music. But is anyone watching?