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<p>Delayed gratification: Noah Wyle in ‘The Pitt’ and Dakota Johnson in ‘Materialists’</p>
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Why Britain can’t (yet) see America’s buzziest movies and TV shows

From the Emmy-nominated medical drama ‘The Pitt’ to acclaimed A24 indies including ‘Materialists’ and ‘Bring Her Back’, some of the hottest US films and TV shows are taking months – or even years – to arrive on UK shores. And, according to distributors and experts, it’s something we ought to get used to, writes Al Horner

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<p>Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean in the seminal rock spoof ‘This Is Spinal Tap’</p>
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Spinal Tap invented the rockumentary – and its influence is everywhere

‘Pavements’ is the latest rock film to play with fact and fiction, suggesting that a cult 1990s group are in fact the most influential band in the world. And, like films about fake musicians or real ones, it all leads back to ‘Spinal Tap’, argues Xan Brooks
<p>An extreme close-up of Telly and a 12-year-old girl making out, mouths grimly colliding, opens the film</p>
Inside Film

Thirty years later, Kids still has the power to disgust

Audiences, critics and politicians the world over were horrified by Larry Clark and Harmony Korine’s dramatisation of wayward Manhattan youth. Three decades on, writes Adam White, its provocations remain jolting – and desperate

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