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Stephen Colbert and Jack Black debuted a rousing patriotic jam, "My Kind of America" on The Late Show Wednesday, in an effort to help politicians — well, mostly Republicans — unable to find musicians willing to license them songs for the campaign trail.

As Colbert recalled in the preceding bit, a rocking, all-American song is a crucial component of any campaign trail rally. But Republican presidential hopefuls over the years have had trouble finding the right song — not for lack of taste, but for harboring vastly different political views than the artists they play.

As a passionate lover of films and a life long resident of Walthamstow in East London, I wanted to bring to your attention and gather some more support to an incredible battle that has gone on for around seven years to save our local cinema that was sold to the controversial Universal Church of The Kingdom of God (Uckg), an international religious organisation, which plans to convert the venue into a place of worship. The battle has been led by the McGuffin Film and Television Society that have battled so long and so hard for years to save the wonderful cinema.

Walthamstow Emd Cinema isn’t your regular cinema. It is so full of amazing history, It was Walthamstow’s first dedicated full time cinema in 1907 and was a haunt for a young Alfred Hitchcock who lived nearby. The Beatles, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Little Richard,...

Are you ready for the return of Jason Voorhees (Marcus Nispel's rebooted Friday the 13th)? What about the latest adventures of Tyler Perry's most popular protagonist (Madea Goes to Jail) or the latest unnecessary direct-to-dvd sequel (The Cell 2)? If you're willing to go outside the mainstream, we've found a few rewarding titles (the Certified Fresh Cherry Blossoms, the documentary biopic Scott Walker 30 Century Man), while a wealth of cinematic enjoyment awaits those with Blu-ray players (Criterion's The Seventh Seal, Ghostbusters' 25th Anniversary Edition, and Lost Seasons 1 & 2). Read on to see what else is hitting shelves...

Khan’s sophomore album demands continued attention

With guest spots from Scott Walker and Yeasayer, Bat For Lashes’ sophomore effort lands with simple poise. While Two Suns largely discards Fur and Gold’s more baroque elements in favor of ethereal synthesizer work, Bfl continues to benefit from a deeper sense of history, and Natasha Khan’s ties to the English folk tradition are palpable. If you stumbled on it out of context, you might mistake “Sleep Alone” for a subtle remix of some unreleased Sandy Denny gem. However, there’s a creeping pop sensibility here—“Daniel” sounds like a breathier take on Stevie Nicks’ most elegant compositions, and “Pearls Dream” brings a Kate Bush drama to the dancefloor. An easy (if slightly front-loaded) listen that Khan performs effortlessly.

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Nothing about Antony's voice sounds appealing in description. It's highly mannered, decorous, tremulous, cold, withholding, adenoidal, mercurial—something alien choked from the throats of Nina Simone and Scott Walker with a pair of frilly gloves found in the back of a cabaret dressing room. But that same voice is what makes Antony dramatic—and, on The Crying Light, absolutely devastating. Part of his power owes to the ways his manneredness can be misconstrued, which seem very much on his radar: Whenever it becomes most tempting to write off one of his trills or throaty quivers as an affectation ...

Amy Winehouse swears the producers of Quantum of Solace will be sorry that they hired Jack White and Alicia Keys to record a Bond theme instead of choosing her, still-unrecorded tune. Without giving Amy too much credit, Vulture points out that the wrong bond songs have been left behind before. If Amy's in a club with Scott Walker and Pulp ...