The Paper, Sky Max review - a spinoff of the US Office worth waiting 20 years for

Perfectly judged recycling of the original's key elements, with a star turn at its heart

Fans of the US version of The Office may wonder what happened to the assorted oddballs of Dunder Mifflin, proud creators of paper products in Scranton, Pennsylvania. They will be none the wiser after watching the pilot episode of The Paper, though they will certainly want to stick around for this very welcome spinoff. 

Blu-ray: The Graduate

★★★ BLU-RAY: THE GRADUATE Post #MeToo, can Mike Nichols' second feature still lay claim to Classic Film status?

Post #MeToo, can Mike Nichols' second feature still lay claim to Classic Film status?

Can a film’s classic status expire, or be rescinded? If it can, I’d say The Graduate is a potential candidate.

Sorry, Baby review - the healing power of friendship in the aftermath of sexual assault

★★★ SORRY, BABY Eva Victor writes, directs and stars in their endearing debut feature

Eva Victor writes, directs and stars in their endearing debut feature

“I have a baby in me,” says Lydie (Naomi Ackie; Mickey 17). “What? Right now?” says her friend Agnes (Eva Victor), who may not be entirely thrilled at the news. “Are you going to name it Agnes?”

Gibby Haynes, O2 Academy 2, Birmingham review - ex-Butthole Surfer goes School of Rock

★★★★ GIBBY HAYNES, 02 ACADEMY 2, BIRMINGHAM ex-Butthole Surfer goes School of Rock

Butthole Surfers’ frontman is still flying his freak flag but in a slightly more restrained manner

Gibby Haynes is the wild-eyed crazy man who used to front the Butthole Surfers back in the 1980s and 1990s. At the time, there was none weirder or more out there than the Texan psychedelic punks – and even Ice-T was then prepared to step back and acknowledge their place in the pantheon of musical barbarians.

Freakier Friday review - body-swapping gone ballistic

★★★ FREAKIER FRIDAY Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis's comedy sequel

Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis's comedy sequel jumbles up more than their daughter-mother duo

Before Freakier Friday there were the two film versions of Freaky Friday based on Mary Rodgers’s lively, perceptive 1972 Young Adult novel, the foremother of all body-swap movie comedies (including Big).

Weapons review - suffer the children

★★★★ WEAPONS 'Barbarian' follow-up hiply riffs on ancient fears

'Barbarian' follow-up hiply riffs on ancient fears

Weapons’ enigmatic title, as with Zach Cregger’s previous film Barbarian, reveals little of what follows. The smalltown Pied Piper premise is sufficiently alluring: at 2.17 am, all bar one of a primary school class leave their beds and sprint through night streets, arms flung back like fighter jets, before vanishing utterly.

Album: The Black Keys - No Rain, No Flowers

★★★ THE BLACK KEYS - NO RAIN, NO FLOWERS Ohio rockers below their mainstream peak

Ohio rockers' 13th album improves on recent material, but still below mainstream peak

For a band who started by entirely self-producing their own records and performing in basements, it has ended up being a long and storied career so far for The Black Keys. The blues-rock group, consisting of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, began their career with their first five albums, from 2001 debut The Big Come Up through to 2008’s Thickfreakness, all playing in a modern blues rock wheelhouse.

Album: Molly Tuttle - So Long Little Miss Sunshine

★★★ MOLLY TUTTLE - SO LONG LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE The US bluegrass queen makes a sally into Swift-tinted pop-country stylings

The US bluegrass queen makes a sally into Swift-tinted pop-country stylings

Molly Tuttle is a star of the US bluegrass scene whose last couple of albums have broadened her appeal. On them she wandered into country, folk, and rock. She featured the likes of Gillian Welch, Dave Matthews and Old Crow Medicine Show, intimating, perhaps, a desired trajectory.