The 12 near-perfect songs on “Germfree Adolescents,” the 1978 debut album by X-Ray Spex, clock in at just over a half hour, but the shock waves they detonated keep rippling out 44 years later. One of ...

You still have a few days left of the MKE Film Festival to catch "Poly Styrene: I am a Cliche" about a trailblazing, black, female punk icon in the 1970s. Here are a few of our thoughts about the film ...

Poly Styrene was the first woman of colour in the UK to front a successful rock band. She introduced the world to a new sound of rebellion, using her unconventional voice to sing about identity, ...

At the beginning of the documentary Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, Celeste Bell, the daughter of former X-Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene, says: “My mother was a punk rock icon. People often asked me if ...

Celeste Bell, the daughter of X-Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene, opens her documentary “Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliche” with a simple question: Was her punk rock icon mother a good parent? It comes as no ...

How do you make a documentary about your own mother? And how do you tell that story when you grew up in an unstable environment, with a fractured relationship? That’s the challenge that Celeste Bell ...

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. sales firm Utopia has picked up world rights excluding the UK to biographical doc Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché, narrated by Ruth Negga (Loving). The doc, which will unspool at the ...

The late Poly Styrene (Marianne Joan Elliott-Said), who sang with the British punk act X-Ray Spex, probably hasn’t gotten the credit she’s deserved. A feminist punk icon before there were feminist ...

“My mother was a punk rock icon,” Celeste Bell intones offscreen as her mum watches herself on a wall of televisions in the first few seconds of her unique and affecting new documentary, Poly Styrene: ...

In this new documentary, Poly Styrene’s daughter grapples tenderly with the legacy of her punk rock mother. By Lisa Kennedy When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our ...