Welcome back to The Big To-Do. The weekend weather looks brutal again, with snow yielding to dangerous cold and winds. Fortunately, staying inside will be easy, at least for sports fans with access to screens. The Winter Olympics start tonight, and Globe correspondent Gitana Savage has the lowdown on local watch parties. The Patriots will try to win their seventh Super Bowl Sunday, taking on the Seahawks in Santa Clara, Calif. The week’s new streaming picks include a James L. Brooks movie and one about the Globe, but good luck concentrating on those when there’s an action photo of the Puppy Bowl. The Globe’s Matt Juul has the details as well as an early look at Super Bowl ads. And if you’re feeling more artsy than sporty, the Globe’s culture mavens have a slew of other suggestions.

Movies

Warriors gang members, from background left to right: Brian Tyler as Snow, James Remar as Ajax, Terry Michos as Vermin, Tom McKitterick as Cowboy, David Harris as Cochise, Marcelino Sanchez as Rembrandt, Thomas G. Waites as Fox, and Michael Beck as Swan. CBS VIA GETTY IMAGES

Mike Vrabel screened “The Warriors” for the Patriots and was named NFL coach of the year — coincidence? Maybe. “But far be it for me to question the reasoning behind a team’s rallying cry,” writes Globe film critic Odie Hender​son. “After all, it got the Patriots to the Super Bowl.” He dives deep into Walter Hill’s “extremely stylized” gangland drama, released in 1979 and never remade, “because how can you make a better movie than this one?”

Hasty Pudding Man of the Year Michael Keaton happens to be in town for the 10th anniversary of “Spotlight” winning best picture at the Oscars. “We all believed in the subject matter and having it presented to the public,” he says in an interview with the Globe’s Matt Juul. “Of course, when you see the movie in its finished form, then you [say], ‘Oh boy, I’m really proud to be part of this movie.’”

“Pillion” “has the potential to rival the popularity of “Heated Rivalry” as the next hot gay romance.” Director Harry Lighton, winner of the Coolidge Breakthrough Award, adapted a novella by Adam Mars-Jones into the “dom-com.” “I thought the tonal combination in the book was just so delicious,” he says in a Q&A with Henderson. “It was such an exciting prospect to ... make an audience laugh, squeal, and cry.”

Aidan Zamiri’s mockumentary “The Moment” follows Charli xcx during the “brat summer” of 2024. “If you don’t know who she is, or what brat summer was, you have no reason to spend your hard-earned money,” Hender​son writes in a 1½-star review. The bottom line: “Here’s a movie that’s willing to call fans suckers to their faces by denying them the one thing they wanted most — to hear their favorite singer sing.”

TV & Streaming

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and friends share a Passover Seder in the documentary series "Black and Jewish in America." MCGEE MEDIA

Henry Louis Gates Jr. adds to his “impressive documentary portfolio” with “Black and Jewish America.” Subtitled “An Interwoven History,” the four-part series spotlights “academics, activists, religious leaders, artists, journalists and others,” writes Globe TV critic Chris Vognar. “But the main authorial presence here is Gates,” who “has lived through much of the history covered in the series.”

Keke Palmer stars in “The ‘Burbs,” based on the 1989 horror comedy about bored suburbanites who suspect the new neighbors belong to a satanic cult. The “charmingly goofy” new series is “more biting and less cartoonish,” Vognar writes. It “brings a little ‘Only Murders in the Building’ energy, mixed with a touch of ‘Scooby-Doo.’”

If you’ve been fooled by an AI video, you’re not alone — it can happen to a professional critic, too. Vognar says he “felt a queasy shock of recognition that deep fakery goes far beyond manipulating celebrity images, and that there’s a shadowy world with which I choose not to engage that uses such tech to chip away — or bludgeon away — at democracy.” A look at “AI slop ... at a time when reality bears close watching.”

Music

Bad Bunny performs at TD Garden in 2024. BEN STAS FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

Bad Bunny is known for “full-on grand spectacles filled with catchy and often licentious songs” — sounds like a perfect Super Bowl halftime performer. The winner of the album of the year Grammy “makes music that can light up any dance floor.” Globe correspondent Noah Schaffer offers a look at the career of “the outspoken, charismatic, and artistically daring Puerto Rican musician,” complete with playlist.

Mozart’s “Sinfonia concertante” is “never simply a vehicle for virtuosic fireworks; far more important is the dialogue between its three musical personalities of violin, viola and orchestra.” This week’s BSO performances, with violinist Nathan Cole and violist Steven Ansell, afford “a lot more opportunity to explore the whole dynamic range without fear that attention is going to go somewhere else,” Cole tells the Globe’s A.Z. Madonna.

Welcoming a female lead vocalist has given Roomful of Blues not just a new sound but a new attitude. “A new broom sweeps everything clean,” says D.D. Bastos, whose own band opened for Roomful once in the 1990s. “For us, it’s been great,” guitarist Chris Vachon tells Globe correspondent James Sullivan. “It’s brand new.” The band, which turns 50 next year, plays Boston Saturday in support of its latest album, “Steppin’ Out!”

The documentary “Wortown Rising,” set in Worcester, is “a one-of-a-kind resource on the city’s early hip-hop culture.” Artist and producer Kaz Supernova says his 2023 film captures “undocumented history. There’s been a disconnect for a long time.” The doc screens Sunday at the Worcester Art Museum, Globe correspondent Victoria Wasylak writes for Sound Check.

The Joe Val Bluegrass Festival returns to Framingham next week after a five-year hiatus. The event’s namesake (1926-85) “played a major role in making Boston an unlikely but enduring bluegrass hot spot,” writes Noah Schaffer. Says Eric Levenson, who played bass in Val’s New England Bluegrass Boys, “We were Northerners who were ambassadors of Southern roots music to Europe.”

Museums & Visual Art

Wifredo Lam, "Grande Composition (Large Composition)," 1949. At the Museum of Modern Art's "Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream." MURRAY WHYTE/GLOBE STAFF

“When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream,” at the Museum of Modern Art, celebrates the “gut-twisting painterly power” of Cuban artist Wifredo Lam (1902-82). “I arrived at the show curious and left astonished — by the force of his work and by the fact it had taken this long to fully see it,“ Globe art critic Murray Whyte writes from New York. “I doubt you’ll see a more satisfyingly spectacular display all year.”

Explore “social history, literary history, labor history, and gender history” in “Thanks for Typing: Women’s Type Labor in Literature and the Arts,” at Harvard’s Houghton Library. “The relationship between ‘writing,’ as literature, and typing, as conduit for that literature, is the most interesting portion of the show,” writes the Globe’s Mark Feeney.

Upon its invention, not even 200 years ago, photography was “the miraculous democratized.” Feeney reviews “‘Look Pleasant, Please’: Early Portrait Photography in New Bedford,” at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and “The Scenic Daguerreotype in America: 1840-1860,” at The Wadsworth, in Hartford. The first consists of portraits only, in a variety of formats; the second is entirely daguerreotypes.

Theater

Actors Amy Resnick, Eva Kaminsky, and Will Conard rehearse “We Had a World.” SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFF

The playwright, his mother, and his grandmother make up the cast of Joshua Harmon’s “We Had a World.” A series of vignettes that take place over 25 years, it’s “a memory play colliding with a realistic, linear family drama,” Keira Fromm, who directs the Huntington production opening next week, tells Globe correspondent Terry Byrne. “I don’t think you can watch this play and not see your own family reflected in there.”

Comedy

Eugene Mirman's new special, "Here Comes the Whimsy," comes out Feb. 5 on Veeps. COURTESY

Eugene Mirman’s new special, “Here Comes the Whimsy,” dropped this week. “I love making funny things and collaborating with people on silly projects,” Mirman, whose previous special was released in 2015, tells Globe correspondent Nick A. Zaino III. “It’s a similar satisfaction, which is why, even though I’m not touring as much, I’m still sitting at home thinking of really dumb things that are funny, and that’s really enjoyable.”

Books

"The Last Kings of Hollywood" by Paul Fischer. CROSBY FISHER

Once upon a time, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg “were just three brazenly confident, chronically anxious kids looking to make movies and make their mark.” In “The Last Kings of Hollywood,” Paul Fischer creates “a collage of art, commerce, and ego, set against what became a new age of Hollywood blockbusters.” At the book’s core, writes Globe critic Chris Vognar, “is a question that never loses relevance in the movie industry: What does it mean to sell out, and to resist doing so?”

With “This Is Not About Us,” her 11th and best novel, Allegra Goodman “has returned to her wheelhouse, the American Jewish family.” The author is “always funny and moving, but sharp rather than sentimental, willing to leave matters as messy as they are in real life rather than tying heart-warming fictional bows,” writes Globe reviewer Marion Winik.

Naeem Murr’s “Every Exit Brings You Home” unites “impossible neighbors, beleaguered families, thieving junkies, sexual outcasts, shady businesspeople, nationalist and Islamist rebels, and other specimens of our infinite variety.” The “richly textured” novel, Globe reviewer Wendy Smith writes, “is determinedly hopeful without blinking at the possibility of cruelty and betrayal in intimate relations.”