Culture 2025: what to watch, read and listen to this year

文化 2025:今年看什么、读什么、听什么

Today in Focus

新闻

2025-01-13

26 分钟
PDF

单集简介 ...

Culture critics Lanre Bakare, Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Catherine Shoard look ahead to the best of the year in film, TV, books and music. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
更多

单集文稿 ...

  • 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.