2025-01-13
26 分钟This is the Guardian.
Today, the best films, TV shows and music to look forward to in 2025.
It's dark.
We're only two weeks into 2025 and already the news is showing.
Absolutely no regard for those of us who are hoping for a gentle slide into the new year.
But let's forget about the misery of the world for the next half hour.
If you're in the market for a dose of cultural escapism, stop the doom scrolling and join me and three of the Guardian's most evangelical critics, lan Rae Bakkeri, Ben Beaumont Thomas and Catherine Short.
It may be a dark month, but that's good for cinema because it's also in the uk, at least when all the good big films are released in time for the Oscars.
There's the Brutalist, a three and a half hour epic starring Adrien Brodie as a Hungarian born Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust and emigrates to the United States.
And Paul Mezkal has taken off his gladiator sandals and teamed up with Jessie Buckley for an adaptation of hamnet, the Maggie O'Farrell story about Shakespeare and his wife.
And who's Mezkul playing Shakespeare?
Of course he is.
Of course he's playing William Shakespeare.
And from one master of the English language to another, Central Cee, One of the UK's most popular rappers, will finally release his debut album.
You just know you're in the presence of someone who's kind of operating on a completely different level of mental acuity and it's absolutely amazing to listen to.
And of course, if Liam and Noel manage not to fall out, then Oasis will be back this summer.
It's going to be a massive moment, isn't it?
And whatever you think about them, they are just on another level to anything else.
From the Guardian, I'm Helen Pitt.
What to watch, listen to and read this year.