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Matty (Barbara Sarafian) is a no-nonsense, working class forty-one-year-old mother of three with a thousand yard stare whose life seems to come apart after a minor collision with a Belgian truck transporting Italian lollipops. The 29-year-old redhead driver Johnny (Jurgen Delnaet) has not only bruised her car but also her sense of self. Not only i…

At 14, Toronto school friends Steve “Lips” Kudlow and Robb Reiner made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, went on to become the “demigods of Canadian metal,” releasing one of the heaviest albums in metal history, 1982’s Metal on Metal. The album influenced a musical generation, including Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax, that went o…

Salma, a Palestinian widow, has to stand up against her new neighbour, the Israeli Defence Minister, when he moves into his new house opposite her lemon grove, on the green line border between Israel and the West Bank. The Israeli security forces are quick to declare that Salma’s trees pose a threat to the Minister’s safety and issue orders to uproot them.

Bringing together a new crop of young British talent, including Jamie Winstone, yes it’s Ray’s daughter, Donkey Punch follows seven young adults who meet at a nightclub in a Mediterranean resort and decide to continue partying aboard a luxury yacht in the middle of the ocean. But when one of them dies in a freak accident the others argue about what…

While the role of a prostitute may not be what many actresses have in mind when they decide that they want to pursue a career on the big screen despite this some of Hollywood’s biggest names have found it to be their breakthrough role. It appears that an attractive men and woman, very little clothing and the promise of sex seems to propel the actor…

School Of Seven Bells is the collective work of Benjamin Curtis, ex-guitarist from the Secret Machines and identical twin sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza, previously of ambient post-rockers On! Air! Library! and occasional collaborators with Prefuse 73. The band themselves are named after the mythical South American pickpocket academy, the Sc…

With the Mtv EMA awards gracing Liverpool tonight we thought it was only fair we shared out hot picks for this years set of gongs.

Morrissey has recorded a new duet with Chrissie Hynde. The former Smiths star was joined by The Pretenders singer on ‘Shame is the Name’, the B-side to his forthcoming single ‘I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris’.

Manic Street Preachers are recording an album using Richey Edwards’ lyrics. The Welsh trio are currently in the studio working on songs using the words left behind by the guitarist when he disappeared in February 1995, and have promised the resulting record will be close in tone to seminal third album ‘The Holy Bible’, regarded as one of the darkest in rock.

The Kinks have started work on a new album. The ‘Lola’ hitmakers’ singer Ray Davies revealed in September that the band were thinking about a reunion and has now confirmed they have gone into the studio - but admits he isn’t sure if their efforts will be good enough to release.