Three to See Friday: Crazybull, Save Yourselves! and the MCU TV's finest

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Lauren Crazybull: Even if you missed Thursday night’s opening reception with DJ Mustafa Rafiq, Niitsítapi, Dené painter Lauren Craybull’s new solo show is up for the next week and a bit inside Lowlands’ south building, also known as the Clubhouse. Crazybull won the 2020 Eldon & Anne Foote prize, 2020 Lieutenant Governors Emerging Artist Award and was shortlisted for the Kingston Portrait Prize in 2019. She was selected as the inaugural Artist in Residence for Alberta that year. While you’re there, have a look at the yard show, In the Weeds, featuring artists from Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver.

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Details: Through July 25 at Lowlands Project Space (11208 65 St.), $10 suggested, pay what you can

Save Yourselves! (2020): This one looks hilarious: Jack and Su are a Brooklyn couple who are so dependent on technology they can’t put down their phones. Fearing their scrolling may impact their connection to each other, they seize the chance to head to an isolated cabin in the woods, vowing to unplug from the outside world for one week. Sheltered from texts and push notifications, they are now blissfully unaware that the planet is under attack. Directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, 93 mins.

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Details: 7 p.m. at Metro Cinema (8712 109 St.), $13

Loki season finale: Finally, if you’re into the Marvel Cinematic Universe even a little bit and were hesitating to watch Loki, it’s 100% worth it. It just wrapped its sixth and final episode and, while a couple for sure lagged and they definitely missed an opportunity for Tom Hiddleston to be in love with a different Tom Hiddleston, the series is the first of the new Marvel TV shows to actually end really, really well — at the same time injecting a true sense of menace into the works as we swim into MCU’s Phase IV. I don’t want to spoil anything, but the guest star acting, visual effects and especially the setup for the new Ant Man and Wasp and Doctor Strange films is laid down like diamond concrete, and I’ll give another big nod here to music composer Natalie Holt, who perfectly captured the upside-down, fractalling weirdness of it all. This series showed how to do it: move fast and go far in few episodes, and make Thanos look like a little bug on the floor compared to what’s coming. Excelsior!

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Details: Binge any time on Disney+

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