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"So I self-ordained myself 'Mister'". The man born Laurence Tureaud looks back on his life in this slight but sweet documentary. He grew up in Chicago and, in what is presented as a superhero origin story, understood his…
Mashing up gruesome footage – much of it faked, some of it legit enough to provoke ghoulish chatter – it achieved sleepover notoriety and then received a further publicity boost upon making the DPP's "video nasty" list.…
You can have a snooze in the afternoon, and nobody thinks that's odd." Dame Prue Leith is celebrating her perceived joys of the golden years as she prepares to discuss "Growing Old Disgracefully" with fellow authors…
The goings-on inside the Lycett Arms will be broadcast live for an hour every Friday, as the new landlord welcomes celebrity managers and guests, as well as familiar punters. This could go anywhere – Lycett failed to…
The artwork, called I'm Mr Mercury, is anamorphic, meaning the image only resolves when viewed from a single marked spot about 65ft away. From anywhere else it breaks up into colour and line. It was created by the street…
But although the modern motoring magazine show – high-budget, but with a studied amateurism that makes it accessible as well as aspirational – was pioneered by Clarkson and co with their identities firmly attached, and…
Starkey, the son of Ringo Starr , began playing with The Who in 1996 and remained their touring drummer for nearly three decades, but his position was suddenly thrown into doubt following the band’s Teenage Cancer Trust…
The Birmingham rap outfit, led by Mike Skinner , achieved the peak of their success with their second LP, a rap opera following a single running narrative surrounding a breakup and £1,000 in lost cash. It led to several…
There is some incidental interest and the film is beautifully shot, but finally it buckles under the weight of its own preposterousness and naivety. It is also sketchy about how and why people go into and come out of…
It’s also the first year the festival has introduced screens on their main stage. The set follows on from their 11-minute album Magazine released earlier this summer on 4AD and a guerilla show which saw the five-piece…