Polly Scattergood: Polly Scattergood
Features
You'll know within seven minutes whether you've got the stomach for Polly Scattergood, a youthful Brit School graduate with the name and appearance of a consumptive Dickensian match-girl.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: March 06, 2009

Shontelle: Shontelligence
Features
Shontelle Layne has inevitably drawn lazy comparisons with fellow Bajan R&B export Rihanna, but her debut reveals her to be a rather different proposition.
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Date Published: March 06, 2009

50 Cent: Blood on the Sand
Features
The only good news is that Blood on the Sand is a better than the first 50 Cent game. But bettering one of the worst games of all time is hardly an achievement, and fans needn't get excited.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: March 06, 2009

Howling Bells: Radio Wars
Features
Howling Bells raised some eyebrows with their debut album's antipodean take on melodramatic gothic guitar pop.
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Date Published: March 06, 2009

Cut Copy: In Ghost Colours
Features
It's been a vintage year for Australian dance, with offerings from Muscles, the Presets and Midnight Juggernauts all conspiring to suggest a third summer of love is brewing Down Under.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: December 23, 2008

American Teen
Features
Like Anvil, the recent movie about failing Canadian rockers, this study of a group of American teenagers in their final year of high school is on the mocu-documentary borderline.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: March 06, 2009

Flame and Citron
Features
This is a handsome-looking second world war movie about Danish resistance agents under Nazi occupation.
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Date Published: March 06, 2009

Reverb
Features
In the end, this looks like just another crass, unimaginative and heavy-handed British horror.
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Date Published: March 06, 2009

Surveillance
Features
The only way was up for Jennifer (daughter of David) Lynch, who found herself reviled as the epitome of pampered Hollywood nepotism when she foisted Boxing Helena on a horrified public back in 1993.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: March 06, 2009

The Young Victoria
Features
I can so imagine it. Martin Scorsese in the 1980s, his great collaborations with De Niro behind him, his best director Oscar yet to come. Scorsese yearns for something to provide the ultimate validation of his creative and professional existence. Confessionally, he blurts out the words. "Bobby," he breathes, with a faraway look, "one day I'm gonna co-produce a film with Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York ..."
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: March 06, 2009