Angus Batey

The least fans of Gnarls Barkley singer and former US Voice judge CeeLo Green have the right to expect from 'Heart Blanche' - its...

There is a temptation to laud Stanley Nelson's thorough, absorbing and patient documentary as timely. With almost every month bringing extensive media coverage of...

Hip-hop icons are about image as well as music. Think Run-DMC and their unlaced Adidas; 2Pac’s bandana; Pharrell Williams in his Vivienne Westwood hat....

New NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton – co-produced by former members Dr Dre and Ice Cube – is an inevitably selective portrait of the...

After a less-than-stellar debut in America (where it entered the box-office chart behind Ant-Man and was mauled by almost every reviewer), the prevailing narrative...

This sequel to the Wu-Tanger's 2013 concept album reunites him with producer-composer Adrian Younge. As well as continuing the labyrinthine plot from the first...

In 2013, artist Doug Aitken took dozens of musicians, writers and artists – including Patti Smith, Cat Power and Beck – for a coast-to-coast...

It's hard to know what to make of Anna Odell's stylish, complicated and discomfiting second film. In it, the Swedish artist – who faked...

An optician stares into the eyes of the men who killed his brother and drank his blood: astonishingly, this is a documentary. While Joshua...

There is something refreshingly old-fashioned about this low-budget British horror. First-time director Russell England and writer/actor Paul Raschid wisely avoid Blair Witch-style found-footage detours,...