Saturday Review

Theatre: Mojo Film: The Counsellor TV: Strange Days-Cold War Britain Book: Fatima Bhutto Exhibition:Paul Smith

Film:Gravity Theatre:nut Book:Rustication TV:Yonderland Art: Stanley Spencer

Theatre: Scottsboro Boys Russell Banks: A Permanent Member of the Family CD: Arcade Fire TV: Bedlam Film:Philomena

Autobiography from Morrissey; new film The Selfish Giant; Tim Rice's new musical From Here To Eternity; Masterpieces of Chinese Paintings 700-1900 at the V+A in London; The Escape Artist starring David Tennant.

David Tennant's starring role in Richard II at the RSC; Donna Tartt's long awaited third novel The Goldfinch; Paul Klee exhibition at Tate Modern focuses on the decade he spent teaching and working at the Bauhaus; James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Nicole Holofcener's new film, a rom com Enough Said; in BBC Two comedy drama, David Mitchell and Robert Webb star as the British ambassador and his Mission deputy in Tazbekistan.

Le Week-end with Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan; Roddy Doyle's The Commitments, the musical; Dave Eggers' new novel The Circle; Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900 at the National Gallery & Hello Ladies on Sky Atlantic with Stephen Merchant. Deborah Bull, Naomi Alderman and Patrick Gale join Tom Sutcliffe.

James McAvoy in Filth, the film based on the Irvine Welsh novel; Lesley Manville in Ghosts directed by Richard Eyre; Shunga art at the British Museum and the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge; Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan in Masters of Sex on Channel 4 and Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera. Antonia Quirke, Kamila Shamsie and Kevin Jackson join Tom Sutcliffe

Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine; Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge; The Lyons at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London; Zaha Hadid's Serpentine Sackler Gallery and James Spader in tv series The Blacklist

Eleanor Catton's Booker-shortlisted novel The Luminaries; A Midsummer Night's Dream starring Sheridan Smith and David Walliams; Beeban Kidron's film InRealLife; James Corden in The Wrong Mans on BBC 2; and Australia at the Royal Academy. Kit Davis, David Benedict and Louise Doughty join Tom Sutcliffe.

Niki Lauda and James Hunt's 1976 Formula 1 rivalry in Rush; Farragut North at the Southwark Playhouse; new work from Tacita Dean; Richard Dawkins' autobiography An Appetite for Wonder; and Science Britannica with Brian Cox on BBC2. Helen Lewis, Sir Christopher Frayling and James Runcie join Tom Sutcliffe

Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty; Mark Ravenhill's take on Candide for the RSC; Jhumpa Lahiri's Booker-longlisted The Lowland; Victoriana at London's Guildhall and Peaky Blinders with Helen McCrory and Cillian Murphy on BBC2. Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Professor John Carey, Bidisha and Ellah Allfrey

Simon Schama’s new mini-series, The Story of the Jews. Jessica Swale’s debut play, Blue Stockings. Shane Carruth’s enigmatic film, Upstream Colour. MaddAddam, by Margaret Atwood. Reviewers’ favourite items from Tate Britain’s permanent collection. Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Kathryn Hughes, John Mullen and Dominic Sandbrook.

Saturday Review from Edinburgh Festival: Grid Iron’s interactive theatre production Leaving Planet Earth. Matt Damon in Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi thriller Elysium. Peter Doig retrospective at the Scottish National Gallery. Shakespeare meets Chinese Heavy Metal in The Tragedy of Coriolanus. Reviewers’ favourite moments from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg in action film 2 Guns; Lucy Kirkwood’s play Chimerica at the Harold Pinter Theatre; BBC One’s drama series What Remains; The Interestings, by Meg Wolitzer; reviewers’ favourite items from the V&A’s permanent collection. Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Natalie Haynes, Giles Fraser and Cahal Dallat.

Steve Coogan returns in the film Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa; Nick Payne's new play, The Same Deep Water As Me; David Walliams, Frances de la Tour and Catherine Tate in BBC sitcom Big School; Nadifa Mohamed's latest book, The Orchard of Lost Souls; reviewers’ favourite items from the National Gallery's permanent collection. Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Kevin Jackson, Kamila Shamsie and Dreda Say Mitchell.