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The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including FKA Twigs’ Soundtrack 7, the new season of Gilmore Girls and a mint fresh digital print of Blue Velvet

FKA Twigs’ Soundtrack 7

Last night, the latest film from the uber talented FKA Twigs premiered on BBC4 and the mysterious work is currently sitting over on iPlayer waiting to be devoured. The 35-minute film, described by the artists as an “abstract autobiographical documentary", was made at last year’s Manchester International Festival, where FKA Twigs had a week-long residency. It features performances of songs like Good To Love, How’s That, and Ultraviolet. In a tweet last night, the singer described the film as “flesh, sweat, feeling, muscle - no airbrushing, no frills…” Watch now on iPlayer

i made soundtrack 7 during a week-long residency at @MIFestival last year and at last i can show it to you! pic.twitter.com/l5iJMWM9Mx

— FKA twigs (@FKAtwigs) November 25, 2016

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

If you’ve been online at all in the last month you know two things: Donald Trump is now President and Gilmore Girls is back. Anticipation for Netflix's latest nostalgia-fueled reboot has been feverish, and early reports suggests fans are happy with the final four episodes, names Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. As for the final four words that creator Amy Sherman-Palladino has been teasing fans with for nearly a decade, we can’t give that away; you’ll have to watch for yourself. Streaming now on Netflix

Chi-raq

Word on the street is this is a sexy, brash and potent return to form for Spike Lee, who takes Aristophanes’ antiwar satire Lysistrata, about the women of Athens refusing to have sex with their menfolk 'til they ended their wars, and transplants it to modern day Chicago. Our reviewer, Patrick Gamble, said that “Chi-Raq sees Lee firing on all cylinders, combining outrage at the senseless loss of black lives with a degree of bravado that hits a near-operatic pitch” – read the full review here. Released 2 Dec by Vertigo

Sully

Clint Eastwood loves a true-life tale. His latest tells the modern-day myth of the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’, when US Airways Flight 1549 lost both engines to a flock of geese and its pilot, Chesley Sullenberger, was forced to make a water landing in the middle of New York City. Tom Hanks plays the heroic pilot. Our reviewer, Ian Mantgani, was a fan: “By the time the reenactment comes, we’re so wound up with a willingness to be surprised by the complications of this tale that it becomes an immediate human drama anew, with personalities we care about, a dense sense of physical danger and an inspiring study in individual professionalism, from the cockpit to the flight crew to the rescue teams and the passengers themselves” – read the full review here. Released 2 Dec by Warner Bros

Blue Velvet

Blue Velvet starts with a young college student finding a rotting severed ear while strolling around his town's picket-fenced suburbs, a mystery which sends him on a feverish journey of sexual discovery and brings him into the world of a murderous psychopath (played with demented glee by Dennis Hopper).

David Lynch has made surreal art films (Eraserhead, Inland Empire) and more conventional narrative features (Elephant Man, The Straight Story) but Blue Velvet is one of the few where his two styles combine to devastating effect. To mark its 30th anniversary, a mint fresh digital print of the film will be playing across the UK from this Friday. Release 2 Dec by Park Circus