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24 February 2024
From Wicked Little Letters to Dick

Turpin: a complete guide to this week’s

entertainment

Jessie Buckley and Olivia Colman exchange filthy words for fun, while dandy Noel Fielding hits the
road as England’s most famous highwayman
Sat 24 Feb 2024 06.00 GMT
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Going out: Art

Going out: Cinema

Wicked Little Letters
Out now
Based on a real scandal that rocked a 1920s seaside town in England, revolving around the author
of a series of obscene poison-pen letters, this comedy-mystery stars Olivia Colman and Jessie
Buckley alongside a cast of stalwarts including Timothy Spall and Joanna Scanlan.

Perfect Days
Out now
Starring Koji Yakusho, who nabbed best actor at last year’s Cannes film festival for his troubles,
this return to fiction for director Wim Wenders celebrates Japanese culture, with a Tokyo-set story
of a caretaker whose job cleaning toilets is balanced with a passionate love of the arts.

Vanya: NT Live
Out now
Filmed live during its sold-out West End run, this production sees Andrew Scott take on multiple
roles in Simon Stephens’s one-man version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Also starring in All of Us
Strangers, that Hot Priest from Fleabag is on a roll.

Shoshana
Out now
Prolific British director Michael Winterbottom returns with a political thriller set in 1930s Tel
Aviv. When a member of the British Palestine police anti-terrorist squad (Douglas Booth) falls in
love with the daughter of a socialist Zionist (Irina Starshenbaum), politics and romance
collide. Catherine Bray