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This week: A Cock and Bull Story, Shopgirl, and Get Rich or Die Tryin’ plus film news and gossip. Our very own reviewer has already tangled with A Cock and Bull Story but will the broadsheet reviewers agree with our positively glowing review of Michael …

There’s a good little article in one of today’s papers about a couple of members of the Metropolitan Police who took a trip to Olympia yesterday to view the striptease act which forms the centrepiece of the Erotica 2005 convention. Of course Inspector Chris Bedwell …

We were going to leave Blair and his toy soldiers a little time to go away and lick their wounds before we laid into them again but then we read this story in The Telegraph: The Brazilian man shot dead by police in the mistaken …

- Woman goes to court over £1.20 bus fare. She claims her Oyster Card didn’t work, TfL claim “the Oyster card readers rarely fail”. She needs to hope for a judge who gets the bus a lot. – Tube Lines (who currently control the tracks) …

It’s getting so that you can’t see a trend setting London lass bend over these days without a scrawl of tribal swirls rising above the thong line, just daring you to ask: Is that a Hawaiian?. No longer is it socially unacceptable to have I …

The Wedding Crashers is the latest from the new ‘brat pack’ of Hollywood (consisting of “Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, the Wilson brothers, Ben Stiller and Will Ferrel” if you believe Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian). Bradshaw himself gives the film just two stars, calling it …

The first guests at the 2005 London Film & Comic Convention have been announced and the list is enough to get nerd-Londonist’s happy on. We like to try and look cool on the tube with our oh so ironic t-shirts and a battered copy of …

To the ranks of Singalonga Sound of Music at the Prince Charles and the regular Rocky Horror and Ghostbusters tributes at the Genesis Cinema in Stepney, we can now add … “The Dude Abides”, the annual Big Lebowski tribute night at the Streatham Megabowl. Although …

Londonist is sorry to report that the Star Wars cancer continues to spread like a cheap whore on pay day with no force on Earth seemingly able to stop it. Following the tickets for the back-to-back marathon screening of all six Star Wars films in …

Forget the Michael Jackson trial, the big ‘celebrity’ case you should be following this week is Elizabeth Jagger’s attempts to get an injunction on some dodgy CCTV footage. A couple of weeks ago 21-year-old Liz was caught on camera, “engaging in sexual activities” outside Kabaret’s …