Album: Mykki Blanco - Broken Hearts and Beauty Sleep

★★★ MYKKI BLANCO - BROKE HEARTS AND BEAUTY SLEEP Groundbreaking MC showcases increasing variety

Groundbreaking MC showcases increasing variety on their second album

Broken Hearts and Beauty Sleep has been five years coming. It’s only a mini-album but is spiced with a range of guests, and offers an array of musical styles, the whole sound ably built with alt-tronic producer FaltyDL. The press release tells us Blanco has recently come out of a calming three year relationship, but the album is neither morose nor studiedly reflective. It feels more like a sequel to the playful 2016 debut Mykki.

Kylie Whitehead: Absorbed review - boundary-blurry, darkly funny debut

★★★★ KYLIE WHITEHEAD: ABSORBED Boundary-blurry, darkly funny debut

Body horror portrait delves deep into questions of anxiety and identity

Absorbed meets Allison at the end of her relationship with Owen. They are at a New Year's Eve party when she realises that their 10-year partnership has wound down. So far, so normal. But even within this introduction, we are drawn into Allison's head, the promise clear that the anxieties she hears on a daily basis will become secondary characters to the plot itself.

Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation review - genius dogged by disappointment

★★★★ TRUMAN & TENNESSEE: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION Empathic documentary honours two literary legends

Empathic documentary honours two literary legends

Kindred literary spirits who overlapped in any number of ways make for riveting stuff in Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation. Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland folds archival footage of the legendary writers together with recitations from their life and art spoken by Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto.

DVD/Blu-ray: Mädchen in Uniform

★★★★ MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM 1930s Weimar study of female sexuality in social rebellion

Striking early-1930s Weimar study of female sexuality in social rebellion

The late Weimar-era film Mädchen in Uniform (1931) was visionary – a delicate Queer love story set in a repressive girls’ boarding school that denounced the Prussian militarist creed as dehumanising.

Album: LOUISAHHH - The Practice of Freedom (HE.SHE.THEY.)

★★★ LOUISAHHH - THE PRACTICE OF FREEDOM (HE.SHE.THEY.) Industrial dance pounding of various flavours from New Yorker via Paris

Industrial dance pounding of various flavours from New Yorker via Paris

Somewhere in dance culture or other, the Eighties revival has now been going on more than twice as long as the actual Eighties did. Starting around 1998, it reached an initial peak in the early 2000s as the dayglo-fashion led electroclash, but though the eye of the press moved away, it never really died away.

The Capote Tapes review - lush portrait of the louche writer

★★★ THE CAPOTE TAPES Lush portrait of the 'fairy Huck Finn'

Entertaining documentary portraying a figure once described as the 'fairy Huck Finn'

"A candied tarantula" is one of the many great descriptions of Truman Capote that light up this conventionally made but enjoyable profile of the American author most famous for Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood.

DVD/Blu-ray: Are We Lost Forever

★★★ ARE WE LOST FOREVER Separation, Swedish-style

Separation, Swedish-style, in a chamber portrait of a gay couple in break-up

The title of Swedish director David Färdmar’s feature debut gains a degree of helpful context from one of its opening lines, “But there’s no more we”.