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Save This past week, Timehop apps across the world have been cheerfully notifying users that yes, it has been an entire year since they naively tweeted that they were about to spend “two weeks, maybe even a month” barricaded inside their apartments. (And they’re the lucky ones.) But when you’re a writer for The A.V. Club, you mark time in Kinja posts, not Facebook memories. That means that I’m pulling out a half-deflated balloon and a frostbitten slice of ice-cream cake for myself wh...

Gigulate Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché Is Hardly Cliché: SXSW Review Daughter Celeste Bell and co-director Paul Sng deliver an incredibly personal tribute to the famous X-Ray Spex frontwoman. Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché Is Hardly Cliché: SXSW Review Rachel Reeves

Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché X-Ray Spex singer and punk maverick Poly Styrene (born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said) intended to publish a book of diary entries in her final years. Following her death from cancer in 2011, daughter Celeste Bell inherited management of her mothers pioneering legacy, leading to the 2019 coffeetable read Dayglo!: The Poly Styrene Story. The artwork, writings, and family ties now coalesce in Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, debuting stateside at South by Southwest. Co-dir...

  The Falcon And The Winter Soldier The denouement of Avengers: Endgame saw an elder Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) pass on his Captain America shield to the Falcon (Anthony Mackie), while the Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) looked on, and now the pair begin forging a future without him.  An elder Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) passed on his Captain America shield to the Falcon (Anthony Mackie), while the Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan, above, with Mackie) looked on The action-packed series is partly...

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Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché (Courtesy of Poly Doc Ltd.) Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché SXSW screening: Tuesday, March 16, 10-11:36am SXSW panel: Tuesday, March 16, 8:30-9pm X-Ray Spex singer and punk maverick Poly Styrene (born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said) intended to publish a book of diary entries in her final years. Following her death from cancer in 2011, daughter Celeste Bell inherited management of her mothers pioneering legacy, leading to the 2019 coffeetable read Dayglo!: The Poly Styren...

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“3 July 1976, Hastings Pier. It’s my birthday and I’ll party if I want to.” Marianne Joan Elliott-Said is attending a Sex Pistols gig on her 19th birthday. “I stand centre point in an almost empty ballroom; three Swedish babes stared at Johnny.” Inspired by Rotten and co, the teenager decides to form her own band and places an ad in Melody Maker: “Young punx who want to stick it together,” she writes. She adopts a new moniker from the Yellow Pages – a send up of popstar attri...

TV Editor Tonights top telly includes Tommy Tiernan (of course!), Dave Allen, Ant & Dec, Carly Simon, Poly Styrene and some cracking movies . . . Pick of the Day Ant & Decs Saturday Night Takeaway, 7.00pm, Virgin Media One It’s not the same as it used to be - sure, what is? - but this show is still a fun lift of a Saturday evening. Comedian and actor Rob Delaney is this weeks guest announcer, TV presenter Davina McCall (below) is the latest victim of Get Out of Me Ear, and singer Tom Jones i...

You didn’t pick your mother’s biggest hit, “Oh Bondage Up Yours!” Celeste Bell: There are so many gems that are lesser-known. So instead, you’ve chosen that single’s B-side. Celeste Bell: There’s a bit where it goes, “Yama, yama, yama, yama, yama, yama, boredom, boredom, boring boredom”. She was probably like, “This is fucking boring” as she was writing the song, and just put that in. I think it’s genius in how rushed it is, and how little thought went into it. In the ...