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The Beatles: Eight Days A Week â€“ The Touring Years

Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 16th September 2016

What a Beatles documentary has never quite captured is their cultural significance. You can't, not really: it is too tightly bound up in everything we hold as self-evident about popular culture and our relationship with celebrity. Ron Howard, having had the sense to focus his film on the touring years up until 1966 rather than compress The Beatles Anthology into two hours, allows us a window into just how mental those four years were, and gets closer to the truth of it than anyone else has managed.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Movie Review | Ali Gray | 12th October 2014

So I finally got old. Morning: doctor's appointment for dry skin. Afternoon: phone calls with estate agents and surveyors and mortgage advisors. Evening: still-aching limbs from a football match played 48 hours previously. I startle awake to find myself sat in a Paramount screening room ready to watch the latest iteration of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a phenomenon I was probably too old to enjoy guilt-free the first time round a quarter of a century ago. "Let's see those hands in the air!" says a company spokesperson, urging attendees to don the giant green foam hands provided for a photo opportunity. I am secretly glad I didn't pick any up on the way in. Because I am old as fuck.

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American TV hosts argue over who's more obnoxious

TV News | Ali | 16th October 2010

It's not about idiots singing, or Chinese people with no legs or Sherlock ruddy Holmes, but it did happen on TV: popular US daytime chat show The View has been embroiled in controversy after their female hosts walked out on guest Bill O'Reilly.

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