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Brendon Urie follows up 2016’s supremely successful Death Of A Bachelor with new LP Pray For The Wicked, a new collection of swaggering, big-hearted pop rock.

Recorded with Fall Out Boy/Weezer producer Jake Sinclair, the album was written and committed to tape in the weeks after Urie returned from a stint on Broadway starring in the Kinky Boots musical.

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The American songstress has been building up to her debut album for the last three years, but it finally arrives this week. 

Rexha’s contact book has been firmly plundered with hitmaker supreme Max Martin, The Weeknd/Taylor Swift collaborator Ali Payami and Watch The Throne key man Hit-Boy all on the LP, as well as this, collaborations with country boys Florida Georgia Line, soulful man Tory Lanez and rapper Quavo, also appear.

It’s been almost five years since Trent Reznor and co’s last full-length LP, but it arrives this week. 

Now boasting a line-up that includes Reznor’s partner in film composition Atticus Ross as well as long-time guitarist Robin Finck and ex-Lostprophets drummer Ilan Rubin, the band will make it nine albums and counting with Bad Witch.

The LP is a short one with only six tracks included. It completes a trilogy that began with 2016’s Not The Actual Events and 2017’s ADD VIOLENCE.

The folk rockers, who are led by brothers Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith, return with their sixth LP this week.

The album reunites the band with producer Jonathan Wilson, with whom they recorded their first two albums and drops via their own HUB Records.

The singer, who found fame back in the late 1990's on BBC show The Cruise, returns to that territory with her new album. 

Among the songs she's covered are Wham!'s 'Club Tropicana', Ultravox's 'Vienna' and ABBA's 'The Winner Takes It All'. 

The raunchy trilogy comes to an end with the release of Fifty Shades Freed.

In the new movie, we pick up after the events of Fifty Shades Darker with Christian and Ana now married and expecting a baby. However, Ana's life is threatened when her former boss, Jack Hyde, swears revenge for being fired, while Elena, Christian's former lover, is also back to cause more trouble.

Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson return to star with Kim Basinger, Eric Johnson, Max Martini, Brant Daugherty, Arielle Kebbel, Fay Masterson, Luke Grimes, Rita Ora and Marcia Gay Harden co-starring.

James Foley, best known for his work on House Of Cards and Glengarry Glen Ross, directs once again, with author E.L. James' husband Niall Leonard supplying the script.

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Daniel Day-Lewis announced that he would be retiring in 2017, but before he goes he will leave us with one final performance, Phantom Thread, a second collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson.

The movie stars Lesley Manville, Richard Graham and Vicky Krieps alongside Day-Lewis, it tells the story of renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock, who has struggled to find love throughout his adult life.

One day, he meets Alma, who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love and the ups and downs of a relationship.

Anderson, who worked with Day-Lewis on the Oscar-winning There Will Be Blood, writes and directs this movie, which also features a score from Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood.

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John Lynch and Beth Winslet star in this sci-fi thriller about a group of mercenaries who are hired to accompany a scientist into the depths of the former Soviet Union.

Their aim is to steal secret research, research from a genetics expert who has been combining alien DNA with that of humans. 

The mission, needless to say, doesn't exactly go to plan...

Richard Blackwood, Amrita Acharia and Jack Ashton star in this low-budget British thriller about an escaped serial killer whose life becomes intertwined with a gang of small-time criminals. 

The life and career of firebrand fashion designer Vivienne Westwood is chronicled in this lavish documentary, which features exclusive interviews and archive footage.

The film showcases the highlights from Westwood's career and her rise to notoriety in the 1970s UK punk scene.