Welcome back to The Big To-Do. Monday is Indigenous People’s Day in some places, Columbus Day in others. Whether or not it’s a long weekend for you, the Globe’s experts have lots of plans for your free time. The weekend weather starts out cool and sunny before deteriorating on Sunday. Indoors, it’s a good weekend to “catch up on all the new movies and TV shows hitting streaming services,” and the Globe’s Matt Juul hits the high points. And former cast member Amy Poehler hosts “Saturday Night Live,” with musical guest Role Model.

Movies

Jennifer Lopez in "Kiss of the Spider Woman." ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS

Jennifer Lopez is “nothing short of superb” in “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” Globe film critic Odie Henderson writes in a 3½-star review. Director Bill Condon adapted the Broadway musical and “does a commendable job of handling the film’s tonal shifts from gruesome real-life brutality to musical flights of fancy shot in gorgeous Technicolor,” with Lopez delivering “the star turn she was born to play.”

Playing a therapist in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” Conan O’Brien says, he knew his part “backwards and forwards before we ever got to the set.” The Brookline-bred comedian delivers “a proper, dramatic performance,” writer-director Mary Bronstein tells the Globe’s Matt Juul. “I know how to perform in front of people and sell comedy,” O’Brien says, “but this was an entirely different thing.” The film opens in Boston next week.

“Tron” is now a franchise, and “Tron: Ares” is a worthy successor to the 1982 original until “corporate greed leads to the mistake that ruins the film.” As ARES, Jared Leto is “good casting as an AI creation,” but the soundtrack, by Nine Inch Nails, steals the show. “To say that Oscar winners Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross go hard on the music would be an understatement,” writes Henderson, awarding 2½ stars.

The 2-star “A House of Dynamite” starts out “quite suspenseful” and ends with “a hilarious cop-out” — not what you want from a nuclear thriller. Director Kathryn Bigelow’s “penchant for putting a lot of process on the screen without boring the audience is a major asset,” writes Henderson. But Noah Oppenheim’s script tells the same story from three perspectives, “a narrative device that becomes an instantly forgettable gimmick.”

Channing Tatum plays the title character in “Roofman” — not a superhero but a real-life career criminal. “If only this movie were as interesting as the truth,” writes Henderson, who gives it 2 stars. While “Tatum’s sparkling charm can only take him so far,” LaKeith Stanfield, Juno Temple, and Peter Dinklage “bring colorful shadings to their intriguing characters.”

Colin Hanks’s documentary “John Candy: I Like Me” earns 2½ stars from Henderson. Bill Murray opens the film, at the head of a parade of big names that includes Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, and Candy’s “SCTV” castmates. “Yet when the credits rolled, I felt that I’d seen more testimony from the unusually large number of talking heads than actual footage of the man they spoke so fondly about for almost 2 hours.”

Raoul Peck, a native of Haiti who survived the Duvalier regime, says “Americans are underestimating what’s going on.” The veteran documentarian is doing press for the newly released “Orwell: 2+2=5” — during Banned Books Week, no less — and sounding an alarm, Globe correspondent James Sullivan reports. “I knew that Orwell would lead me to help people understand the current state of affairs, and not only in America,” Peck says.

GlobeDocs Film Festival

The GlobeDocs Film Festival returns Oct. 22-26.

The 11th annual GlobeDocs Film Festival runs from Oct. 22 through 26. The celebration of documentary film brings vital stories to life through screenings, conversations, and Q&As with filmmakers and award-winning journalists. The event spotlights diverse perspectives, amplifies BIPOC voices, and explores urgent topics shaping our world today. For more information and to buy tickets, click here.

TV & Streaming

Tim Robinson in "The Chair Company." SARAH SHATZ/HBO

An embarrassing incident sets “The Chair Company” in motion, and Tim Robinson is just the person to run with it. The series, a “deadpan conspiracy thriller parody,” “often feels like a story making itself up as it goes along,” writes Globe TV critic Chris Vognar. “I don’t expect ‘The Chair Company’ to be massively popular; it’s far too fringe for that. ... But I’m glad there’s a high-profile place for it in the TV ecosystem.”

Ryan Murphy’s “Monster” anthology series is back and branching out into serial murder with “The Ed Gein Story.” Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” and Tobe Hooper’s “Texas Chain Saw Massacre” drew on Gein’s crimes, and the filmmakers figure into the new season. Murphy and cocreator Ian Brennan create “a pop culture hall of mirrors that doubles as a haunted house.”

The Big Day

Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah and Siri Carr wed at More than Words bookstore in Boston's South End on Aug 2. CAELLE JOSEPH

The Globe’s weddings column, The Big Day, tells stories of how couples found each other, fell in love, and said “I do.” Siri Carr and Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah married in August at More Than Words bookstore in the South End — a fitting venue for two Boston Public Schools librarians. “Any love must have a component of action in it, because that is how love is felt or shown and received and exists,” Emmanuel, who’s also Boston’s poet laureate, tells Globe correspondent Rachel Kim Raczka. “You make it live.”

To apply to be featured, recently married and engaged couples (vow renewals and commitment ceremonies, too!) with ties to New England can click here for the application form.

Theater

Sam Kissajukian in "300 Paintings." EVGENIA ELISEEVA

In “300 Paintings,” Sam Kissajukian relives a six-month period when he created the titular artworks. In the ART production, the solo performer, who has bipolar disorder, “channels his emotional state from that period so completely and viscerally that he seems to have passed beyond memory into actuality, as if he is reinhabiting his own skin in front of our eyes,” writes Globe theater critic Don Aucoin.

Museums & Visual Art

Kay WalkingStick, "Chief Joseph Series, 1974-76." Installation view, "An Indigenous Present," at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Courtesy National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and the artist. © Kay WalkingStick MEL TAING

“An Indigenous Present,” at the ICA, is “centered on the intersection of abstraction and Indigenous sensibilities over generations.” It’s “a declaration that Indigenous people in North America are alive and well in the here and now, and are making their voices heard,” writes Globe art critic Murray Whyte. The exhibition spotlights “a culture forced to negotiate two worlds, and ultimately, create its own.”

Photographer Ilsa Bing, known as “Queen of the Leica,” “earned her title in what was as close to a world capital as the medium then had” — Paris in the 1920s. “The Worlds of Ilsa Bing,” at Wellesley College’s Davis Museum of Art, “is a small show that sets itself the task of doing the work of a much larger one,” writes the Globe’s Mark Feeney. “It would be better with a focus kept on Bing — which is to say, more photographs from her.”

Practical objects make up “Transformed by Revolution,” at the Concord Museum. Alongside military items are currency, “furniture, clothing, footwear, quilts, a sampler ... a child’s doll, a game board, household items, a newspaper, a wine bottle (from a Tory’s cellar), and scientific instruments,” Feeney writes.

The 19th Amendment is the subject of “A Yellow Rose Project,” at the Griffin Museum of Photography. It consists of 106 images by woman photographers. “A Constitutional amendment is a pretty abstract concept,” in Feeney’s words. “Except that having your existence civically recognized is in no way abstract. Between those two polarities, the highly conceptual and deeply personal, there are countless visual possibilities.”

Music

From left, Evan Dando with Lemonheads bandmates David Ryan and Nic Dalton in Boston, 1992. COURTESY OF EVAN DANDO

Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando is a good writer, and not just of music. His new memoir, “Rumors of My Demise,” is “a zesty, entertaining read, and a particularly satisfying integration of Boston music history into rock’s global canon,” Globe correspondent Victoria Wasylak writes for Sound Check. She teases out anecdotes about local venues, from T.T. The Bear’s Place in 1986 to The Sinclair in 2015.

The Leftist Marching Band takes part in this weekend’s HONK! Festival, with designer and artist Sarah Bennett on clarinet. A decade and a half after taking up the instrument, she calls the decision “about the best thing that ever happened to me.” She’s “not an artist with quotation marks,” Bennett, who’s also a book designer, tells Globe correspondent Cate McQuaid, writing for the Working Artist series. “I like to make stuff.”

BIA’s debut album, “BIANCA,” bears the Medford rapper’s full first name and captures her “truest self.” It’s out today and offers “a rare peek at BIA’s singing chops,” writes Wasylak. “I think people, up until this point, have expected bops, cool songs, braggadocious raps,” says BIA, who never forgets where she came from. “Every stride that I take, it just brings more eyes back home. And it shows people there’s a lot of talent here.”

“I feel like I’m right where I need to be,” says Rico Nasty. “I love to make people wonder, ‘Is this a boy? Is this a girl? Is she a singer? Is she a rapper? She has singing songs! Oh, now she’s rapping!’” the emcee, who plays Boston Tuesday, says in a Q&A with Globe correspondent Candace McDuffie. “I like people finding out about me and wanting to ask more questions and know more.”

Former Globe classical critic Richard Dyer died last year, leaving — among other things — tens of thousands of vinyl records. “I thought I’d give the Boston music community first crack at taking something out of here that they’d like,” Stephen Dyer, who has scheduled a pay-what-you-can sale for this weekend at his uncle’s Cambridge condo, tells the Globe’s A.Z. Madonna.

Books

"Bridgerton" author Julia Quinn CHANDRA WICKE PHOTOGRAPHY

Julia Quinn isn’t a stickler about how her “Bridgerton” books translate to TV. “I personally don’t like it generally when a book is adapted too faithfully,” she says. Ahead of the Boston Book Festival on Oct. 25, the Harvard grad chats with the Globe’s Meredith Goldstein about rewatching “Outlander,” the power of Shonda Rhimes, and the phenomenon of Regency romance “and the wonderful conversations and witty repartee.”

Susan Orlean “has a remarkable ability to notice the offbeat and get it vividly on the page.” In her memoir, “Joyride,” the celebrated profile writer is “engaging and generous, explaining how she found ideas, honed and reported them, overcame obstacles (there were plenty), researched, wrote,” says Globe reviewer Laurie Hertzel. “You can’t ask for a better guide to ... writing narrative nonfiction.”

Cambridge author Alysia Abbott waited more than a decade for “Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father” to come to the big screen. Her account of being raised by her gay dad after her mother’s death resonated with director Andrew Durham, whose parents divorced after his father came out. “It was personal with him,” Abbott tells the Globe’s Mark Shanahan. The film, produced by Sofia Coppola, opens today.

Comedy

The Main Stage cast, from left: James Melloni, Zachary Barker, Kellie Moon, Madison Gillis, Rhett Sosebee, and Sam Carty. SEAN GOSS

Improv Asylum has reopened more than six months after a devastating flood. “We’re moving back home,” musical director Steve Sarro tells Globe correspondent Nick A. Zaino III. The first show in the revamped space is the fully improvised “The North End Justifies the Means.” Director Sarro says he wants the audience “to be on their toes. You will never know at what turn your friend or you might get pulled on stage or spotlit in a fun way.”

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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