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'I want to raise Maxwell as an individual': Jessica Simpson opens up family album The Real Housewives of Atlanta star gave birth to her fourth child on August 15.

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'I am doing amazing': Amanda Bynes insists she's just fine and claims that her DUI charge is false in bizarre new interview

She has so far been charged with a DUI and has been involved in two hit-and-runs in a matter of months. And despite her recent erratic behaviour and friends and families voicing their serious concern, the actress insists that she is just fine.

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The Watch is so unwatchable it makes even an alien invasion seem dull

Hitting all the wrong notes: The Watch remains merely charmless

At 101 minutes, The Watch is unwatchable — a punishingly long, aggressively crude, laugh-free American comedy about neighbourhood vigilantes in suburban Ohio.

Jurassic Park meets The Blair Witch Project: Eccentric but lazy film The Dinosaur Project is fun to watch

Nessie? The film is a mishmash of genres - but still fun to watch

The script is a lazy hotchpotch of recycled elements: the stowaway child from Jurassic Park 2, cute little dinos from Jurassic Park 3.

Romeo and Juliet versus Dirty Dancing (again) - Step Up returns to the big screen

Not another one: Yet more dirty dancing with yet another tedious storyline

There haven't been many films this year with a more hackneyed storyline or tackier dialogue. This fourth film in the Step Up series is barely a sequel, as only a couple of minor characters are retained from the previous movies.

The Three Stooges: The Farrelly brothers' tribute to vaudeville stars Moe, Larry and Curly is as clever as a poke in the eye

Goons: The Three Stooges played by Chris Diamantopoulos, Sean Hayes and Will Sasso get charmingly physical

The Three Stooges is a thoroughly professional, amiable tribute to Moe, Larry and Curly, the lowbrow comedy clowns who made a series of hit shorts during the Thirties.

Let's hear it for these boys: Magic Mike weaves a spell

Magic Mike starring Channing Tatum as Magic Mike, Kevin Nash as Tarzan, Matt Bomer as Ken, Joe Manganiello as Big Dick Richie and Adam Rodriguez as Tito

Before Hollywood tried to tell us Channing Tatum was a movie star and stuck him in such extravaganzas as G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, he earned his money as a teenage stripper in Tampa, Florida.

This Irish thriller has troubles - and not just the sectarian kind

Anti-heroine: Andrea Riseborough plays single mother Colette McVeigh who plants a bomb on the London Underground

The most ambitious film of the week UK-financed Shadow Dancer attempts to do the near- impossible: make us care about a single mother called Colette McVeigh who plants a bomb on the London Underground.

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'We've always been honest about wanting success': The Killers' frontman Brandon Flowers on how the band came from nothing

EXCLUSIVE: First listen of Alanis Morissette's new album Havoc And Bright Lights

Havoc and Bright Lights: Hear a stream of Alanis Morissette's new album

Canadian singer's first album since becoming a mother nearly two years ago.

'We're not known for being slick... but it went perfectly': Mel C on Spice Girls' Olympic closing ceremony performance

But Sporty Spice Mel C admits that while the girls 'nailed' their performance at the Olympic Closing Ceremony, they won't be getting back together.

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JESSIE WARE

Devotion (PMR)

The latest South Londoner to follow in the footsteps of Adele and Florence is a sultry soul diva from Brixton. This debut album mixes driving yet atmospheric dance tracks with radio-friendly ballads worthy of Alicia Keys. There are nods to Soul II Soul, Sade and Eighties jazz-funk, but the overall feel is thoroughly modern, with Ware’s elegant vocals a unifying force. Get your Mercury Prize bets on now.

★★★★★

PETE WILLIAMS

See (Basehart)

Williams is Kevin Rowland’s main sidekick in the latest version of Dexys, and the soul-rebel sway of his solo debut will be reassuringly familiar to fans. He lacks Rowland’s forceful character, but there is plenty to admire in his thoughtful mix of acoustic pop, soul and jazz. Guitarist Richard Hawley is a subtle but welcome guest.

★★★✩✩

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Circles Around The Sun (Nettwerk)

This Boston jamming trio play to crowds of 100,000 in the U.S. but have struggled over here. Their first UK release may change matters. An accomplished mix of funk, folk and psychedelic rock, it is illuminated by virtuoso musicianship and some sumptuous harmonies. Josaphine and Never Or Now are roots-rock ballads worthy of the Chili Peppers.

★★★✩✩

ERWIN SCHROTT

Arias (Sony 88691 97116 2)

Handsome Uruguayan bass-baritone Schrott has starred in the gossip columns in recent years, but he really can sing. His supple, athletic voice is heard to advantage in music for the usual bass melange of devils, villains, braggarts and tyrants, with the Vienna Radio SO under Daniele Rustioni. I especially enjoy the scenes from two early Verdi operas, I Lombardi and Attila, where Schrott sings the exciting cabalettas as well as the arias. Both go with a swing. He is a fine Toreador in Carmen, sings Gounod’s and Boito’s versions of Faust, does Don Quixote’s death scene affectingly and makes a sinister police chief in Tosca. Schrott’s Hispanic roots are reflected in the famous aria from Gomes’s Salvator Rosa and two numbers from a 1936 zarzuela by Basque composer Sorozabal. Good recordings.

★★★★✩

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Isles of Wonder (Decca)

This eclectic double album is a worthy souvenir of last Friday's spectacular. Emeli Sande's dazzling Abide With Me and Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells rub shoulders with Elgar's Nimrod and the heavenly Four Nations Choir.

★★★★✩

DELILAH

From The Roots Up (Atlantic)

Londoner Delilah has a smokyvoice with echoes of Sade and Alanis Morissette. A sultry cover of Minnie Riperton’s Inside My Love is exceptional. Single Go is a sleek re-working of Chaka Khan’s Ain’t Nobody.

★★★★✩

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More . . . Or Less(Chrysalis)

A taster for their appearance at the Olympics closing concert in Hyde Park, this live album suggests age hasn’t withered the ska pioneers. Its two CDs offer a chronological trawl through their all-too- brief history.

★★★✩✩