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The Guardian - Culture Edit Unfollow On my radar: Bolu Babalola's cultural highlights by Killian Fox Jul 2, 2022 The novelist and comedy writer on her song of the summer, her new favourite sitcom and the brilliance of director Lynette Linton Born in London to a British-Nigerian family in 1991, Bolu Babalola studied law at Reading and did a masters degree in American politics and history at UCL before getting her start as a comedy writer at the BBC. Her debut short story collection, Love in Colour, a retelling of historical and mythological love stories, was published in 2020 and made the Waterstones book of the year shortlist. Her novel Honey & Spice, a romcom set in the African-Caribbean society of a UK university, is published in hardback by Headline on 5 July. Continue reading... Continue Reading Minions: The Rise of Gru review – very funny goofball nonsense by Wendy Ide Jul 2, 2022 Steve Carell’s wannabe supervillain takes on the hippest bad guys on the block in this irrepressible latest Despicable Me outing There’s not a whole lot that is new in the latest instalment of the Despicable Me franchise, the second in the series to foreground the adventures of the Minions. But that familiar silliness, the madcap, looney-tunes energy, the big, wet raspberry blown in the face of sophistication, has always been what the Minions do best. And here, in Minions: The Rise of Gru, the bean-shaped evil-groupies deliver a concentrated hit of irrepressible goofball nonsense. The film, which loosely follows the 2010 first Minions movie as an extended origin story for Gru and his banana-hued acolytes, unfolds in a luridly psychedelic version of the late 70s. The hippest villains on the block are the Vicious 6, a team that includes disco chick Belle Bottom (Taraji P Henson), a rollerskating Swede called Svengeance (Dolph Lundgren) and martial arts holy woman Nun-Chuck (Lucy Lawless), a one-joke character who still manages to generate plenty of laughs. Continue reading... Continue Reading

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