Rating: 3/5. Verdict: Relentless party.

Anyone who went to high school will remember the holy grail of cool - and that there's nothing less cool than trying to be.

This bizarre Finnish comedy horror doesn't live up to the appealing central concept, but has more than enough points of difference to warrant interest.

Kanye West's latest album is something special.

Let's face it, if you're not singing along to Livin' On a Prayer when it's playing at a party you're letting the side down - go home.

The third entry in this mildly beloved fantasy franchise benefits from being ocean-bound, but fails to offer much for the grown-ups.

John Grisham clearly felt deeply about this book - perhaps because he's recently become concerned about wrongful convictions, and the treatment of that theme here has a very passionate edge.

Don't like scary movies? The toast of the Tribeca Film Festival is much more atmospheric drama than ghost story, though the few wraiths who appear momentarily do make you jump.

In Black Eyed Peas land The Beginning comes after The END (released a mere year-and-a-half ago).

Rating: 3/5

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Rating: 4/5. Verdict: Four discs of rare genius punctuated by some lesser moments

Gagarin Way is about current political apathy; nonetheless it expects its audience to have a wee bit of political awareness, particularly vis-a-vis 20th century British history.

Rating: 4/5 Verdict: Surprise package

Rating: 3.5/5. Verdict: Wickedly funny and original idea not quite fully realised.

Rating: 3/5 Verdict: Beautiful but unfinished

Rating: 4/5 Verdict: A refreshingly smart and adult friendly teen comedy

Rating: 5/5. Verdict: Enough skulking, let's party

Rating: 4/5. Verdict: A musical victory against life's overwhelming odds

Set in Mumbai, Saraswati Park is a vivid portrait of intergenerational family dynamics in an ever-changing, modern day India.

This is the first full biography written since the publication of the two-volume edition of Mansfield's Notebooks (2002), transcribed by Margaret Scott, and the final (fifth) volume in 2008 of her Collected Letters.

Theme-based anthologies serve several purposes. They explore and represent particular subjects from a thousand vantage points and they assemble diverse voices, both familiar and unfamiliar.

Rating: 3.5/5

Way back in the 1980s I was addicted to Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City novels.

Graham Reid rides to the shadowlands with Bruce Springsteen.