NOW SHOWING SIX OF THE BEST

MUSIC Meltdown – The Southbank Centre’s annual festival of progressive music climaxes this weekend with performances from curator Ornette Coleman and Kieran Hebden.

FILM Sleep Furiously – Remarkable documentary about life in a Welsh backwater that deserves a wide audience.

FILM Drag Me to Hell – Spiderman director Sam Raimi returns to his horror routes in this ghoulishly brilliant supernatural thriller.

THEATRE Waiting for Godot – Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart’s run as Samuel Beckett’s metaphysically-stranded tramps continues at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.

ART Futurism – Tate Modern’s summer blockbuster examines the Italian movement that embodied the excitement and technological advances of the early 20th century.

EXHIBITION Garden and Cosmos – the British Museum displays magnificent paintings from India between the 17th and 19th centuries.