Welcome back to The Big To-Do. This week, awards season is ramping up, as is the temperature, and playoff football is starting. The weekend weather remains relatively warm, with some precipitation in the forecast. Sports fans might want to stay home anyway — the US Figure Skating Championships are underway, and the skaters who will compete in next month’s Olympic Games will be named Sunday. Oh, and the Patriots open the postseason in Foxborough Sunday night, when they play host to the Chargers.

The Golden Globes are Sunday, and among the 15 nominated movies available to stream is “One Battle After Another,” which scored the most nominations in the film category. The Globe’s Matt Juul rounds up the details. More than a dozen nominees, including Ayo Edebiri (“The Bear”) and Amy Poehler (the “Good Hang” podcast) have New England ties, and Juul has the scoop on those. And in non-award-related streaming options, two wildly popular series and two franchise movies make Juul’s list.

Movies

Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat in “Father Mother Sister Brother.” VAGUE NOTION

Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother” earns 3½ stars from Globe film critic Odie Henderson. The “lovely little movie” is “an often hilarious meditation on the relationships between parents and their children. Sibling rivalries, and the camaraderie brothers and sisters share, are also explored.” The “uniformly good” cast includes Adam Driver and Mayim Bialik playing Tom Waits’s kids.

In “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,” a Russian school employee “proves to be a willing and able guide to the Russian government’s crackdown on the curriculum.” David Borenstein’s documentary traces videographer Pavel “Pasha” Talankin’s “solitary efforts to push back against the Russian indoctrination effort in schools,” writes Globe correspondent James Sullivan. “Of course it becomes psychological,” says the filmmaker.

Jim Henson’s “Labyrinth,” a “massive cult favorite,” turns 40 this year. “This movie is my kind of crazy,” an appreciative Henderson writes in a look back at “the strange sci-fi fantasy.” It stars a teenage Jennifer Connelly, an assortment of Muppets, and David Bowie, “the only human being in the universe who could visually upstage the Muppets.” Bowie also figures on the soundtrack, which includes “one of his greatest compositions,” “Underground.”

TV & Streaming

Sepideh Moafi in season 2 of "The Pitt." WARRICK PAGE/ASSOCIATED PRESS 

It’s July 4th on the second season of “The Pitt.” “Patients come and go, live and die ... Doctors, nurses, and other hospital staff banter and bicker,” Globe TV critic Chris Vognar writes. “There are no angels or demons on ‘The Pitt,’ just flawed individuals doing their best to put out and survive a fire that never stops blazing.”

“Taskmaster” is crossing the Atlantic, and the live version of the British comedy competition hits Boston next week. Expect “exclusive clips of a new series and also things that haven’t been seen before,” says cohost Alex Horne. He and Greg Davies chat with the Globe’s Lisa Weidenfeld about, in Davies’s words, “an evening of lots of different stuff, organized higgledy piggledy, and it’ll be marvelous.”

Set in postwar London, “Bookish” stars Mark Gatiss (“Sherlock”) as a crime-solving antiquarian book dealer. “As often happens in a show like this, Book’s quiet life as a bookseller intersects with a shocking amount of violent crime,” Weidenfeld writes. It “certainly fits some of the particulars of the cozy mystery genre ... But it’s got strong noirish elements as well, and the show’s grim setting keeps it from becoming cutesy.”

Chevy Chase “is (or at least was) prodigiously funny.” Marina Zenovich’s documentary “I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not” considers a career ignited by “Saturday Night Live” in 1975 even as it “makes clear that he spread his cruelty as liberally as his wit,” writes Vognar. “[M]ostly Zenovich lets Chase squirm under the camera’s gaze and act like himself.”

The premiere of “Smoke,” a series about arson investigations starring Jurnee Smollett and Taron Egerton, is the news peg for a chat with Dennis Lehane. The author, who grew up in Dorchester, is the guest on this week’s “Say More” podcast from Boston Globe Opinion. “Boston is unlike any other place,” he says. “It just is.” He shares a hilarious anecdote about “The Departed” and dishes on the best and worst Boston accents in movies.

Theater

Cayleigh Capaldi as Maria in "The Sound of Music." JEREMY DANIEL

The touring production of “The Sound of Music” playing Boston has a not-at-all-secret weapon: Cayleigh Capaldi, who plays Maria. “In an outstanding performance, she constructs a portrait of Maria that draws on multiple modes of expression,” writes Globe theater critic Don Aucoin. “The production neither conceals nor transcends the musical’s inherent flaws, despite the assured direction by the savvy Broadway veteran Jack O’Brien.”

Museums & Visual Art

A pairing of the Modern artists Alberto Giacometti (work in foreground) and Mark Rothko (painting in background) is a highlight of the Museum of Fine Arts' newly-opened Modern galleries. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON

Modern art has a stunning new home at the MFA. “Through the nearly five-dozen pieces on view, the new Modern galleries provide a broad overview of art world upheavals from the late 19th to mid-20th century,” writes Globe art critic Murray Whyte. “Among those five-dozen pieces, though, is a tacit admission: More than half of them are loans, not owned by the MFA, whose own Modern collection is famously thin.”

Music

From left: Boston musicians BIA, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Kay Hanley of Letters to Cleo, and Donna Summer. BONNIE NICHOALDS, JOHN MCCONNICO/AP, ROBERT E. KLEIN FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE, AMY HARRIS/INVISION/AP, ADOBE, GLOBE STAFF

What does “Boston music” make you think of? “The current implications of the phrase — that Boston’s mainly a rock city, and one with waning influence, at that — is outdated and incorrect,” Globe correspondent Victoria Wasylak writes for Sound Check. The “music columnist whose 4-inch boots are regularly sticking to the weathered floors of local clubs and dives” argues for looking at Boston music “as something that’s still alive.”

The multimedia production “Bowie Cello Symphonic Aura: Blackstar Visualized” returns to MIT Saturday, the 10th anniversary of David Bowie’s death. “Time kind of stopped that day,” recalls video game designer Alex Rigopulos, whose visual design work is part of the performance. “My first requirement for the visual show was to bring the lyrical content back,” he tells Globe correspondent James Sullivan.

“This music is for everybody,” says American Spiritual Ensemble founder Everett McCorvey. His 18-month tenure as Music Worcester’s artist-in-residence starts Saturday, part of his mission to “make sure that this music that I felt was so important to the American musical canon was not lost.” Globe correspondent Noah Schaffer profiles the conductor and opera singer whose “amazing ideas could not be limited to 12 months.”

More than 30 years after the Grateful Dead disbanded, the band lives on in “hundreds of cover bands that embrace the freewheeling spirit of the musical universe the group embodied.” “Debating which ones are the best, and for what reasons, is a kind of pub trivia game for Massachusetts fanatics,” writes Sullivan, who delivers an entertaining look at the Bay State community of Deadheads.

Books

In her debut YA novel, 'Beth is Dead,' author Katie Bernet reimagines 'Little Women' as a murder mystery where the March sisters — Jo, Amy, and Meg — attempt to solve Beth's murder. HEADSHOT BY MAE HAINES

There’s reimagining classic literature, and then there’s retelling “Little Women” as a murder mystery. Katie Bernet approached her young adult novel “Beth Is Dead” as a Jo enthusiast, “but I actually relate quite a bit to Beth now,” she says in a Q&A with Globe correspondent Sarah Knight. “I think if you love the original, it’s still going to have that same heart, even though the wrapper is completely different.”

“Lost Lambs” is “preoccupied by systems (religious, corporate, familial) and the rituals that allow them to persist even when their moral centers have long since eroded.” To her “riotously assured debut novel,” Madeline Cash brings “a distinctive voice, an eye for the grotesque within the mundane, and a deep skepticism of the stories that behemoth institutions tell to justify themselves,” writes Globe reviewer Rhoda Feng.

New biographies of legendary book publishers chronicle “the transformation of American literary culture and commerce in the 20th century.” Gerald Howard’s “The Insider,” about Malcolm Cowley, and Gayle Feldman’s “Nothing Random,” about Bennett Cerf, “paint instructive pictures of the two principal trends that made American literature and publishing what they are today,” writes Globe reviewer Wendy Smith.

Today's newsletter was written by Marie Morris and produced by the Globe Living/Arts staff. Marie Morris can be reached at marie.morris@globe.com. Thanks for reading.

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