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The Guardian - UK
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Populist: Items of interest this week

Slice movie poster
Slice movie poster

Extra cheese

Because sometimes creating interplanetary hip-hop simply isn’t enough, Chance Bennett – AKA Chance The Rapper – will star in Slice, a stoner murder mystery film about a pizza delivery guy.

Gag reflex

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt? Unbreakable Tig Notaro, more like. Watch the trailer of the comedian’s Netflix doc Tig, which looks at her cancer diagnosis and the stand-up tour that followed it.

Skin graff

The new video for Jack Ü’s monster hit Where Are Ü Now features amateur graffiti art appearing atop guest artist Justin Bieber’s face. Miraculously, all involved resisted the urge to scrawl genitalia on Biebs’s forehead. Watch here.

Trimester of the universe

Marvel continues to push gender equality in the blokey world of comics. After making Thor female, it’s turning Spider-Woman into a pregnant working mum; tagline “Parent by day. Hero by night”

Future proof

At least one of your childhood faves won’t be receiving a disappointing remake any time soon, with Robert Zemeckis, who holds the rights to Back To The Future, promising that the film won’t be getting a reboot until he’s dead.

Game for a laugh

Failing to be dissuaded by the memory Peter Kay’s X Factor thing, David Walliams is said to be writing a sitcom set behind the scenes of a BGT-style talent show.

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