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Peter Stults reinterpretation of Wolverine, left, with Pacino and Hartter's, right, starring Clint Eastwood

You probably never wondered what it would be like if Clint Eastwood had played Wolverine or Leonard Nimoy got the part of John McClane in Die Hard.

But nevermind, someone's already done it for you.

Illustrator Sean Hartter, 38, has been reimagining classic film posters but with retro casts since 2009.

And his Alternate Universe Movie Poster project encourages other artists to come up with their own designs.

Among them are works by New York illustrator and designer Peter Stults, 29, who has also cast Al Pacino as Wolverine, along with Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis and Jack Lemmon in The Hangover.

June 1-5

The Gagosian Gallery are hosting Richard Phillips' 90-second motion portrait of wayward film actress Lindsay Lohan.

The work will be included in Commercial Break, a collection of artists' videos put together by Neville Wakefield, which shows at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Venice at the start of the 54th Biennale di Venezia.

In the short film portrait of Lohan, Phillips uses classical portraiture as a means of examining popular culture.

It shows the bombshell actress in a number of familiar poses, with references to iconic moments in film, such as Brigitte Bardot in Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt, or the psychosexual interplay of Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullman in Ingmar Bergman's Persona.

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Revolver Entertainment
86 minutes
Certificate 15 (2010) out on DVD & Blu-Ray

Out now on Blu-Ray this is an affectionate, hilarious and completely untrustworthy documentary about urban street art.

Billed as the world's first street art disaster movie, it features a host of real street artists including Shepard Fairey, Space Invader and Banksy himself (maybe, hard to tell... probably someone else entirely).

Taking you on a handheld cam's view of guerilla artists spray painting, stenciling and stunting various buildings in America and Europe it begins as what appears to be a genuine homage to the genre.

But as with much street art you soon feel its tongue is firmly in its cheek.

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Until February 27

Curated by Jota Castro and Christian Viveros-Fauné the title for Ceri Hand Gallery's inaugural 2010 exhibition is taken from the song Spasticus Autisticus, by the great Ian Dury of Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

Dury's song, written 29 years ago for the International Year of Disabled Persons, was both an appeal for understanding of disability and an angry yawp about society, its inhumane sensibilities and its marginalisation of those regarded as not 'normal'.

The deliberately provocative title confronted head-on the growing taboo at the use of the word Spastic - a term now considered politically incorrect and offensive. Instead spastic was replaced with the blandly medical but uncontroversial cerebral palsy.

Dury, whose own disability was caused by polio, quickly found his mark, with the BBC deeming the song offensive and barring it from the air.

Spasticus Artisticus takes this as its starting point, but does so without the same moral authority of Dury.

This exhibition celebrates "the oddball, the abnormal and the 'special' qualities" of artists and explores the freedom of those who deliberately select a life devoted to ideas outside what is regarded as "useful".

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Cert PG, 101mins ***
It was never going to be easy spinning a children's book of just 10 sentences into a feature film. And alas, the obvious criticism - that there's not enough story to go around - rings painfully true in Spike Jonze's adaptation of Maurice Sendak's beloved tale.

The effects are spot-on, little Max Records is ace as the story's boisterous nine-year-old hero while the film mostly avoids the treacle that mars so many kids' pics.

Yet for all that, you may find yourself praying for something to happen during a dreary middle section. Perhaps an espresso.

Records plays the neglected Max whose mum (Catherine Keener) is often too busy to bother with him and whose older sister is more interested in the neighbourhood's boys than playing with her sibling as he throws snowballs outside their home.