Coincoin and the Extra-Humans review – God's gunk

Bruno Dumont's irresistible sequel to 'P'tit Quinquin' splatters rural French bigotry

It’s no accident that the eponymous young antihero of Coincoin and the Extra-Humans loses his virginity to the daughter of a French white nationalist in a field close to a sewage farm. The stench of racism pervades the hilarity of Bruce Dumont’s follow-up to his 2014 miniseries Le P’tit Quinquin, which happily features the same principal cast members.

Theatre Unlocked 1: George Floyd remembered, a classic transformed, and a call to action re climate change

THEATRE UNLOCKED A Broadway legend in concert lends musical buoyancy to this week's ever wide-ranging theatrical array

A Broadway legend in concert lends musical buoyancy to this week's ever wide-ranging theatrical array

We're easing out of lockdown, haircuts are being had, and the theatre continually shape-shifts to accommodate these changing times. All credit to the 14 writers who have conjoined forces in urgency and haste to create 846, a collection of audio plays responding to the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Clemency review - devastating death row drama

★★★★ CLEMENCY Alfre Woodard excels in devastating death row drama

Alfre Woodard gives a powerhouse performance as a death row prison warden

“All we want is to be seen and heard,” explains a lawyer to a death row inmate, paraphrasing a line from Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man, from which Chinonye Chukwu’s new film Clemency takes inspiration.

Album: The Chicks - Gaslighter

★★★★ THE CHICKS - GASLIGHTER The Chicks have ditched the Dixie but kept the country

The Chicks have ditched the Dixie but kept the country

I have had an obsessive-loop Dixie Chicks tune for every eventuality of my life so far – “Ready To Run” for a big break up; “Wide Open Spaces” for road tripping; “Cowboy Take Me Away” for whimsical love affairs; “Not Ready To Make Nice” for general rage and “Travelin’ Soldier” for a good old cry.

Hamilton, Disney+ review - puts us all in the room where it happened

★★★★ HAMILTON, DISNEY+ Puts us all in the room where it happened

Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical gets another shot on screen

The movie adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights was meant to hit cinemas this summer, but, in response to Covid-19, has been put back to 2021.

On the Record review - #MeToo turns its lens to the music industry, gives the mic to women of colour

★★★ ON THE RECORD #MeToo turns its lens to the music industry, gives the mic to women of colour

An unflinching look at #MeToo, misogyny in hip hop, and the burdens of black women

On the Record, the latest documentary from Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering (acclaimed directors of The Hunting Ground), dives into the sexual misconduct allegations against music mogul Russell Simmons, the so-called ‘Godf

Small Island, National Theatre At Home review – big-hearted story hits every beat

★★★★★ SMALL ISLAND, NT AT HOME Big-hearted story hits every beat

Andrea Levy's Windrush epic bursts triumphantly onto the stage – and our screens

A British-Jamaican man is confused. It's the Second World War, and he signed up for the RAF on the understanding that he would serve as a pilot overseas. But instead he's ended up as ground crew in a grey Lincolnshire village. "You are overseas, aren't you?" sneers his sergeant.

Theatre Lockdown Special 10: Epic plays from the National Theatre and Broadway alongside voices raised in protest

LOCKDOWN SPECIAL 10 Epic plays from the National Theatre and Broadway alongside voices raised in protest

The state of Britain then and now gets a look-in, as do animals in human form

As lockdown continues, National Theatre at Home has announced its final sequence of plays, and several of the very best are being saved for last. That certainly applies to this week's offering, Small Island, whose dissection of Britain's racist past couldn't be timelier.

Romantic Comedy review - a not-so-guilty pleasure

★★★★ ROMANTIC COMEDY Tough yet passionate look at joys & flaws of romcoms

Elizabeth Sankey's tough yet passionate look at the joys and flaws of romcoms

Only those who really love you can deliver the hard truths, and for filmmaker Elizabeth Sankey, that one love is romantic comedies. Better known as one half of band Summer Camp, Sankey is a self-confessed romcom expert, having watched nearly every film from the 80s onwards.