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Today: No one told Yes that prog was dead in NY in '78

Today: Free play dead in Salisbury, 1972

The Joy Division Story: Profound, intelligent, intense

After a week off, holed up in the Cotswolds since you ask, it's been a busy time for film screenings. I went to see The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford on Tuesday, this time on a proper 35mm print rather than the beta tape I saw a few months back, and tonight there's Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited that I'll hopefully blog about tomorrow. Last night, though, our album reviews editor John Robinson and I went to see American Gangster, at close to three hours as epic as it gets, with Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington manfully chewing chunks out of the scenery in late Sixties/early Seventies' New York.

"Is Michael Bay the Devil?" Screams the headline on a 1998 Entertainment Weekly article that's currently posted on Michael Bay's website. Certainly, there's a large number of film critics out there who seem to hold the director personally responsible for pretty much everything that's Wrong in movies.

The 10 best films we saw at this year’s Sundance Film Festival – and the worst…

Bat For Lashes gets down with the Boss and heads out on tour

A mighty Forest Whitaker powers Giles Foden adaptation

The cinematic debut of Sacha Baron-Cohen's hapless Kazakh reporter

A collection of dyed-in-the-wool misfits, The Hoovers, head cross-country for the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant...