John Grant, Rob Stuart, Cherry Picking Openair

John Grant is an American singer-songwriter who released his album Pale Green Ghosts earlier this year - an album which was just recently nominated for the "Independent Album Of The Year" by the UK Independent Music Awards. He came to play at Basel’s Open Air last week and talked to Anna about learning Icelandic and touring the new album. Listen to the extended interview here.

Our cinema expert Rob Stuart told us about The Lone Ranger with Johnny Depp playing Commanche 'Tonto' in a very funny new Western. There's two films dealing with art and paintings but not exactly in the same style. At Pathe Kuchlin, Trance by Danny Boyle, starring James McAvoy; and 60s remake Gambit (Studio Central), directed by Michael Hoffman, starring Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, and Alan Rickman. Also at Pathe Kuchlin, a Danish-Thai co-production called Only God Forgives set in Bangkok's criminal underworld that will chill you to the bone with Ryan Gosling's moody moves and the lovely Kristen Scott-Thomas. Neill Blomkamp wrote, directed and co-produced the latest Matt Damon blockbuster Elysium, an American science-fiction film set in the year 2154 that portrays a harsh reality on earth; a vision not too different or far from our contemporary life. Lastly, Kult kino Club is showing Shadow Dancer with Clive Owen and Gillian Anderson in a psychological, political thriller set in Belfast in the 1990s.

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And don't forget, you can win two tickets to the Cherry Picking Openair electronic dance music festival this Saturday! Details on the festival are here. Join us on Facebook and write to us! We'll pick winners later this week and your name will be put on the festival's guestlist.