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  A monster calls: why the ‘horror universe’ is an idea whose time has come

  Two innovative production houses are reinvigorating horror films. Is this the beginning of a Marvel-style expansion of the genre?

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  The Pocket Gods are hoping to sell one-off album Vegetal Digital for £1m. Here's why...

  At a small independent record store tucked away in a neat courtyard of shops next to St Albans' famous cathedral, a vinyl record that one band is hoping could become the most expensive ever sold in the UK is about to be released. Just one physical copy of prolific indie band The Pocket Gods' latest album Vegetal Digital has been produced, going on sale at their hometown's Empire Records for the rather large sum of £1 million. With charts of the music industry's "most expensives" usually throwi

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  Stop laughing at the back: why shouldn’t Joker 2 be a musical?

  With Lady Gaga and Brendon Gleeson in the cast, director Todd Phillips sequel project would sit fine with the nuttiness of the current DC universe

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  Uri Geller: On John Lennon's alien encounter, crashed UFOs and recruiting citizens for his micronation

  It's not every day Uri Geller shows you a mysterious alien object given to him by John Lennon, reads you CIA certification of his paranormal abilities or invites you to become a citizen of his micronation. Geller, who chats to me via Zoom in his "museum" (which contains among other things Salvador Dali's crystal ball, Mick Jagger's guitar and Muhammad Ali's boxing gloves) is here to talk about one of his favourite subjects - the paranormal. Framed in a glass case on the wall, along with a pair

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  Ritual of planning permission could burn up plans for holiday resort on ‘Wicker Man island’

  The island of Tanera Mor inspired cult classic The Wicker Man, the tale of an outsider from the mainland falling foul of local pagan customs.

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  Jessie Buckley channels Joni Mitchell, Nova Twins storm the rock scene – the week’s best albums

  Famous actors who release albums are brave souls. For every decent stab – Scarlett Johansson’s 2008 LP of Tom Waits covers was memorable; Minnie Driver released a solid set of songs in 2004 – there are multiple bizarre efforts, from Steven Seagal playing yacht rock to Christopher Lee releasing an album of symphonic heavy metal. No matter the genre, the performer’s dual career invites extra scrutiny. And it’s always hard to escape the whiff of “vanity project” about such releases.

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  How Christopher Lee made The Man With the Golden Gun Bond’s most menacing, majestic villain

  “Come, come, Mr Bond… you get as much fulfillment out of killing as I do.” As lines from baddies go – in this case, Sir Christopher Lee’s Scaramanga – it’s solid gold, 24-carat Bond villainy. The moment comes in The Man with The Golden Gun, as Scaramanga lunches with Roger Moore’s 007 on his exotic island-cum-secret lair. It’s a prelude to a fight to the death. They’re exchanging notes on vintage plonk for now – as served by 3’11” henchman Nick Nack (Hervé Villechaize) – but they’ll be duelling

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  Veronica Carlson, actress-model who was a leading ‘scream goddess’ during the golden age of Hammer horror films – obituary

  Veronica Carlson, who has died aged 77, was one of the most highly regarded actresses in the horror genre, with a voluptuous bikini-clad allure that earned her a contract with the Hammer studio but confined her to sexualised victim roles in Dracula and Frankenstein films.

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  Spotify: British band to release 1,000-track album of 30-second songs in royalty rate protest

  One track is titled ‘0.002’ in reference to how much artists are paid per stream

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  The stars who died in 2021: Sean Lock, Helen McCrory, Sarah Harding and more

  The world bid farewell to titans from film, TV and music.

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