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JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS (2001) Look, if you’re only going to watch one movie from the early aughts that satirises the soullessness of consumer culture and manufactured pop bands and has a subplot about mind control… make it Josie and the Pussycats. As an added bonus, it’s also set in Riverdale, which means the characters definitely know Archie, Betty and Jughead, maybe. One of the main villains in everyone’s favourite comic-book town is Wyatt Frame (Alan Cumming), a record executive with music label Mega Records, who arrives in Riverdale to find the Next Big Thing – after his Last Big Thing died in a ~mysterious~ plane crash. Wyatt is everything you hate about early-2000s hedonists: he wears tiny glasses with tinted lenses; his hair has an

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