Today's news: Pixar feminist fairytale and full marks for swipe at patriotism and sport...

CultureCritic | 03.July.2012 | 10:42

Feisty redhead Princess doesn't suffer fools (or husbands) gladly in Pixar's Scottish fairytale...

A festival and a half for a new ex-industrial London venue: it's Bloc 2012...

The US critics are all a-flurry for Ben Fountain's satirical novel, taking a swipe at sporting spectacle...

Working with the pews: Shobana Jeyasingh's dance piece made for churches is proving mighty resonant so far (below)...

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Cinema

91%	Grave Of The Fireflies (25th Anniversary)
86%	Behind the Candelabra
82%	Beyond The Hills
79%	Our Children
78%	A Hijacking
78%	Neighbouring Sounds
75%	In the House
74%	The Gatekeepers
72%	In the Fog
70%	Mud
70%	The Place Beyond the Pines
70%	Thursday Till Sunday
69%	Good Vibrations
68%	A Late Quartet
68%	Rebellion

Recorded music

90%	Lubomyr Melnyk - Corollaries
87%	Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
85%	James Blake - Overgrown
85%	Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
81%	Phosphorescent - Muchacho
81%	The National - Trouble Will Find Me
81%	Colin Stetson - New History of Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
80%	Savages - Silence Yourself
78%	Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
78%	Phoenix - Bankrupt!
77%	Kurt Vile - Wakin' On A Pretty Daze
76%	The Besnard Lakes - Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO
76%	Deerhunter - Monomania
76%	Vondelpark - Seabed
74%	No Joy - Wait To Pleasure

Books

88%	Rachel Kushner – The Flamethrowers
80%	WG Sebald - A Place in the Country
76%	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah
76%	Khaled Hosseini - And The Mountains Echoed
76%	John le Carré – A Delicate Truth
75%	Lionel Shriver - Big Brother
75%	Claire Messud - The Woman Upstairs
75%	James Salter - All That Is
74%	Julian Barnes - Levels of Life
73%	Paul Auster & JM Coetzee - Here and Now
72%	Amity Gaige - Schroder
71%	Taiye Selasi - Ghana Must Go
70%	Louise Erdrich - The Round House
69%	J.M. Coetzee - The Childhood of Jesus
66%	Tessa Hadley - Clever Girl

Exhibitions

81%	David Bowie is
80%	From Death to Death and Other Small Tales
78%	Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind
75%	Saloua Raouda Choucair
73%	Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
66%	Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years
65%	Tate Britain Commission 2013: Simon Starling - Phantom Ride
64%	Ellen Gallagher: AxME
55%	George Catlin: American Indian Portraits

Theatre

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