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Super 80s Along with BMXs, backpacks and the Walkman, JJ Abrams is reintroducing "mint" as a term of excellence in his 80s sci-fi Super 8 . Barf, rad, bodacious and gnarly lined up for Super 16. Part Motorcycle, part karate expert, ALL ROBOT! Karate-Robo Zaborgar : when a movie plot is simple enough, you don't really need to explain much more in the tagline. Cindy Says So, where exactly in "the north" is Michelle Collins's new Corrie barmaid supposed to be from? Disco-very Clubbing doc The Politics Of Dancing brings Frankie Knuckles to Radio 4 on Tuesday, 1.30pm. Black Squadron: Glastonbury Command Adam And Joe's show is live from Worthy Farm this morning – if you're there, head to the Pyramid Stage for a mass Squadron alert. Rumour of the week Darren Aronofsky to direct Michael Chabon's Hobgoblin – a HBO show about magicians and conmen teaming up to kill Hitler. Move Over R Kelly The-Dream's new "double single" Body Work/Fuck My Brains Out ! anoints him as the new king of lubricious R&B. Gloria & Order Punk poet Patti Smith plays a mythology professor in a future episode of Law & Order. twitter.com/guideguardian guardianguide.tumblr.com