Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another installment of To Watch and Watch For! The sky is starting to get dark by 6 p.m., the November chill is settling in gradually and we get to show off our seasonal fashion instincts with the heavier layers and stylish coats of winter clothing. Enrich your winter experience with the following works of art.
Another Stephen King film adaptation, The Running Man, hits theaters this Friday. Glen Powell plays a “runner” who agrees to take part in a deadly TV show in which he must survive 30 days to receive a hefty cash reward. Many film-heads may recognize director Edgar Wright’s other films, including Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Shaun of the Dead, which showcase his unique, geeky and kinetic style of comedy. The Running Man will bring this style to a much wider mainstream audience: It’s Wright’s most expensive movie ever and features a stacked cast including Glen Powell, Josh Brolin and Colman Domingo.
Though we are all familiar with the Apollo 11 mission, the first to bring humanity to the moon, we may have not heard of the Gemini program that made it possible. Jeffrey Kluger’s upcoming non-fiction book Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, The Untold Story releases this Tuesday; check it out to learn more about the least appreciated yet most groundbreaking space program in American history.
FKA twigs is following up her recent album EUSEXUA, released just this January, with a standalone sequel EUSEXUA Afterglow. Her recent single “Cheap Hotel” is a surreal, interlude-like track that lives in this after-party comedown vibe, as suggested by the album title. With this sequel, FKA twigs may be drawing from trip-hop influences in contrast to the electronic and art-pop sounds of the original EUSEXUA, and she might even have two legitimate Album of the Year contenders on her hands.
The President’s Reading Series’ next writer Patricia Smith has been called “a testament to the power of words to change lives,” a statement anyone reading her poem “10-Year-Old Shot Three Times, but She’s Fine” would certainly agree with. Smith is an award-winning author known for her books of poetry, including Unshuttered and Incendiary Art. Her reading this Wednesday will be on the theme of the “Literature of Social Import.”
If you’re looking for more, check out the rest of the list below:
To watch...
The Running Man, directed by Edgar Wright — Nov. 14
Now You See Me: Now You Don't, directed by Ruben Fleischer — Nov. 14
Keeper, directed by Osgood Perkins — Nov. 14
The Carpenter's Son, directed by Lotfy Nathan — Nov. 14
Trap House, directed by Michael Dowse — Nov. 14
To read...
Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, The Untold Story, by Jeffrey Kluger — Nov. 11
Aces Full: A Wild Cards Collection, by George R. R. Martin — Nov. 11
Next Time Will Be Our Turn, by Jesse Q. Sutanto — Nov. 11
The Silver Book, by Olivia Laing — Nov. 11
The Strength of the Few, by James Islington — Nov. 11
To listen...
EUSEXUA Afterglow, by FKA twigs — Nov. 14
(((((ultraSOUND))))), by The Neighbourhood — Nov. 14
Criminally Attached, by Nicholas Craven & Boldy James — Nov. 14
Everything Is A Lot, by Wale — Nov. 14
Finally Over It, by Summer Walker — Nov. 14
Live events...
Patricia Smith: President’s Reading Series — Literature of Social Import — Nov. 12 from 6–7 p.m. in Gilman Hall 50
- This event is free.
Visiting Artist Talk: Caleb Cole — Nov. 13 from 4–5 p.m. at JHU-MICA Film Centre
- This event is free.
Opera@Morgan and Peabody Opera Theatre Present “Street Scene” — Nov. 14, 15 from 7:30–9:30 p.m.; Nov. 16 from 3–5 p.m. at Morgan State University Murphy Fine Arts Center
- Tickets are $35. (There are discounts for seniors, Hopkins faculty and staff, and Morgan State University students.)
Holiday Makers' Market at Evergreen Museum & Library — Nov. 15 from 11 a.m.–3 p.m. at Evergreen Museum & Library
- This event is free.
